REALLY OLD NEWS - Horses talk with their EARS: Creatures use subtle body language to communicate thoughts

A Sussex University study (presumably government funded) tell us what most people still knew 125 years ago and for millennia before that! 
I love horses and live for my horse, but this is just more time a money wasted by schools and government. They could have asked any seasoned horse owner and gotten a better answer. m/r

Horses talk with their EARS: Creatures use subtle body language to communicate thoughts | Mail Online

Forget neighing! Horses talk with their EARS: Creatures use subtle body language to communicate their thoughts

• When a horse is interested, it pricks up its ears and swivels them around
• Ears flopped down means creature is relaxed and pinned back shows anger 
• These movements are so important that, if a horse's ears are covered up, another horse struggles to know what it is thinking

By FIONA MACRAE

PUBLISHED: 11:01 EST, 4 August 2014

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2715693/Neighing-Horses-talk-EYES-EARS-Creatures-use-subtle-body-language-communicate-thoughts.html#ixzz39XI7A3D4
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