Can horses think?
Everyone who’s ever worked with horses knows that they can “think” in some ways, and even seem intuitive. Research in this area suggests that this is true, but only at a simple level of thinking.
Still, everything that has been done scientifically in the horse so far addresses tasks, learning, and conceptualization at a fairly simple cognitive level, at least by human standards of thinking. Almost everyone who knows and works with horses would likely have plenty of anecdotal evidence “demonstrating” that horses readily do these simple mental tasks and perhaps much more. The challenge for scientists is to set up experiments to demonstrate the abilities in a manner that can stand up to scientific scrutiny. And that’s where we are at the moment with horse thinking.
Most every person who loves and works with horses will tell you that they can indeed “think”.