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  1. What we communicate when we whinny and nicker: http://www.springerlink.com/content/c87p20010107373l/fulltext.pdf
  2. The archicortex and paleocortex are honed for survival, and provide us with many subconscious survival instincts, senses, traits & reactions
  3. The neocortex is most developed and allows us to think, conceptualize, and respond to the efforts of man to train, utilize, and confine us.
  4. The cerebral cortex of the horse has 3 evolutionary divisions: the archicortex, paleocortex, and neocortex, all 3 functional and operative.
  5. When we smell, see, taste, hear, or feel something unusual we become skeptical and fearful and take flight. Flight alleviates our fears...
  6. Our Smell and Vomeronasal insight are considerably developed and evolved. A considerable portion of our cerebral cortex interprets smells.
  7. Horses in the lead of a moving group tend to place their ears forward, while those at the rear orient their ears backwards, always listening
  8. By nature we are neophobic: Afraid of all new things. Present new things to us carefully and patiently. Let us smell, feel, taste & see them
  9. Each member of the harem & herd shares in surveillance. Not only are we on the lookout for change, we smell, taste, listen & feel for change
  10. If we see something enough and the thing or action proves to be benign, we learn to ignore it. This is desensitization, conserving energy.
  11. Flight is our most refined ability. We flee trouble. Any change in our milieu with which we are not familiar we consider potential trouble
  12. Horse is a most remarkable species. We can utilize marginal rangelands efficiently. We graze grass preferentially. Pasture is our preference
  13. The dawn of horse came 60 million years ago. We adapted and evolved to grazers of the plains. We became communicative and social to survive