Horses’ behaviour is influenced by the smell of human fear, reveals new research. Mares and stallions exposed to the scent exhibited higher levels of fearful behaviour themselves – and were less ...

Horses can smell human fear—and it changes their behavior. That’s the takeaway of a rather unusual experiment that involved making horses smell material soaked in human sweat and observing what they ...

Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a new study has found. Researchers collected samples of odor compounds from the ...