Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’
You must log in or # to comment.
Everything is goal directed right up to the…
REEEEEEEEEE! HOLY FUCK WHAT WAS THAT LITTLE NOISE OR MOVEMENT? RUNAWAY! RUNAWAY! RUNAWAY!
To be fair, that describes me having a panic attack when my plans fall apart.
If they are goal directed they are more sapient than I am.
I was just thinking something similar. Perhaps envy.
Stupid horses knowing what they want and working towards it.
How did you conduct this study? Play chess with a horse?
Horse did a en passant and the researcher got mad
but, famously, they never proceed directly towards their goal. they always take one step to the side after two steps forward.
