A horse is a horse… or is it? We know that humans and animals experience the world differently, but it’s challenging to gauge the extent of these differences or apply this understanding to how we treat animals in our care.
Veterinarian visiting a farm to care for horses in the field
Cornell University veterinarian and equine welfare specialist Lindsay Goodale will help horse owners explore the interrelationship among animal cognition, biology, and welfare.
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On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at 1:00pm, Cornell University veterinarian and equine welfare specialist Lindsay Goodale will host a virtual event to help horse owners and caregivers gain a better understanding of how horses’ perceptive and cognitive abilities, along with their biology, affect the relationship between humans and horses.
In this webcast, Cornell University veterinarian and equine welfare specialist Lindsay Goodale will take you into the mind — and body — of a horse to explore the interrelationship among animal cognition, biology, and welfare.
Using horses as a case study, Dr. Goodale will explain how the study of animals’ perceptive and cognitive abilities, along with their biology, enable us to better understand how they experience their world — providing vital knowledge for improving animal welfare.
Please visit the College of Veterinary Medicine website for other equine educational opportunities.
What you will learn:
• How horses see the world, including their relationships with humans
• The ways that our understanding of a horse’s inner world and biological needs can impact their welfare
• Which common equine management practices are at odds with a horse’s nature
• How the science of animal cognition can improve animal welfare
Dial-In Information
Register here: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K032322/
Press release by Sarah Bassman - Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine