What did we find out?

We thought that when Ting wore the ears forward, she'd be telling the horses to "relax," and that they'd show positive, friendly behaviors. But that's not what happened. Most of the horses were kind of agitated. In fact, there were very few friendly reactions at all. Our results showed six friendly reactions with no ears, three with ears forward, and only one friendly reaction with ears pinned back. Overall, we think that just wearing ANY fake ears stirred up the horses! more...