Re: Equine Cognative ability

On Nov 26, 4:07 pm, "ClareB" <clarezincan...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
tenwheels wrote;

<You miss even the simplest points, eh? Spirit doesn't try to untie
the rope when he's not tied, only when he's tied. >

Um...why? is this not evidence your horse is using intelligent thought
process- if he was just mouthing the rope for something to do, then why not
do it when he was NOT tied up - caught in your own net methinks ;-)

Not at all. Pray tell how he could try to untie a non-existent rope?
Now, if I tied several halters/ropes to tie rings and he began in
series to try to untie them, that might be interesting, but it still
wouldn't show cognition. If he selected the the loose end of the rope
and reversed it through the loop, then you might have something.
.

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