Horse telling a human what someone else told her.

http://www.synalia.com Kayce Cover; My assistant, Annet Schultze, shows a horse one item of a pair. There is no verbal labeling or sound at this point, to keep the information from me. I then back up to the horse, making no visual contact with Annet, and ask the horse what the item was. Count the accuracy of the horse. Then, note the head nods. What do you think? Please comment!

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[joostvogelzang]

Heel mooi om te zien!

Verbazingwekkend wat je allemaal kunt bereiken!

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Very nice to see!

Amazing what you can achieve!

[seraphicsynergism]

Thanks very much for coming to look!

[seraphicsynergism]

One more note: some seem to miss the point of the design of this experiment. I don't know the correct answer!!!! I cannot cue the horse. I cannot always put the correct answer in any particular position. I don't know what the correct answer is!!!

And, since the presenter does not know how I will arrange choices, she cannot cue the horse about what choice to make either.

It is, for intents and purposes, a double blind presentation!!!

[seraphicsynergism]

5 trials, 100% correct, correct choices were left, left, right, right, right - and the correct choice was offered 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd and 2nd - HOWEVER, there is no way for the horse to be answering in a pattern anyway, because I don't know which item was shown. I only know that the choice is one of a pair of items.

What really amazed me, she nods yes everytime I offer the correct choice first. Another trainer pointed it out while we watched the video. I missed it! Check it out!!

[furfaces25]

Excellent video, Kayce. How did you get to this point? What have you taught the horse to get it to learn to identify objects?

[seraphicsynergism]

Thanks! We label each item, then ask her to confirm that she got each label. We make sure that she can choose each item correctly, regardless of the order or side that the correct answer appears on. Then we move on to the next items. As soon as she confirms all those, we mix them up and ask her in different pairings.

Please check back for more video, and please tell your friends. Anyone can do this with their animals.

[bluecrofft]

Outstanding! The more of this type of work I see and now witness with my own dog, I am increasingly inspired by the possibilities and opportunities of building an even more equal partnership in our Freestyle routines. I'm constantly dreaming up new ways to tap into, and develop, my dogs' potential - and I thought we had done just about all there was to do! Thank you Kayce for the inspiration.

Tina Humphrey and Chandi (winner of all 3 Freestyle/HTM Finals at Crufts 2009).

[spidersweb06]

haha, I didn't have enough room in the other comment to say this:

I have 3 cats and one of them has his own little thing that when he wants to go outside he hits the keys that are already in the door. And, if I don't hear that he comes over and hits me to get my attention.

It's funny but also quite clever that he knows it will get my attention and I know that he wants to be let out.

This is such an amazing video. Going in my favourites :)

[zubbycat]

Wow, that's awesome!! What a fun experiment. Thanks for explaining how you taught her to do this in the comments (I was about to ask that ... lol). Really really cool!!!!

[tahoeskittlemsofl]

good

[mazafuzle]

at 0:48 the girl shows the horse a bottle and at 1:07 the ask the horse bottle vs bucket and the horse says what looks to me like a yes anyway the horse picks out bottle and the girls said no WTF???

[spidersweb06]

OMG!

This is absolutely amazing!

I had to watch it a few times to see everything. At first I didn't really notice the nod of her head. But WOW she does. And it's not like she was encouraged to do that at all!

Animals are so unbelievably intelligent. Most people don't give them enough credit.

[flapje2]

Wauw, really a great video i must say! Annet and Kayce, good job!

The horse really shows that he knows which products are shown, i've watched the video 2 times already!