Horses perceive the world differently from humans because their senses developed differently through evolution to cope with different ways of living and surviving. Horses are essentially prey/flight animals. The horse s senses therefore determine how the world appears to him and how he reacts to it. As the horse s perception and understanding are very different to ours sometimes their reaction to events and their surroundings seem strange to us.
In this book the author compares the horses sensory organs with those of humans to avoid misunderstandings as lack of knowledge can lead to...