The Senses, All Seven of Them, of a Horse
You know the five senses, sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Did you know that horses have seven senses. It has long been known that a horse is extra sensitive, but it has only recently been discovered just how sensitive they are. The sixth sense is the ability to sense all motions and emotions of any organism around them. If you are leading the horse and your head turns only slightly toward an object, the horse will follow your gaze. When you are riding, if you turn your head, the horse will actually veer toward the direction you are looking. Also, if you are afraid, the horse will automatically sense the fear through your touch, your position, even your grip on an object. They will react to any emotion. Calm is called the neutral emotion, because the horse can not sense anything through the calm. If you relax, you become neutral, or calm.
The seventh sense is a strange ability. A horse can find its way home under normal circumstances, even when a GPS cannot locate. Scientists still do not know why this happens. The only certain thing is that it is a sense that few animals in the world possess. The only known animal that has this sense is the birds. An experiment conducted in August shows that you can trailer a horse somewhere and leave it to its own devices and it will find its way home easily.
Horses have poor vision and taste, but their hearing, smelling and touch senses are very acute. It is debated that these three contribute to the sixth and seventh senses. There are no names for these senses, but there might be if scientist's can fathom the mystery of the horses seven senses. There could be more that haven't been discovered on all animals. Maybe even human's have them.
by A.S.
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