(April 26, 2015 at 10:54 am)Hatshepsut Wrote: I wouldn't underestimate horses, either. They're very sensitive to tiny signals and have long memories. They can recognize human beings and other horses as individuals and develop bonding relationships with them. It takes a lot of intelligence just to do that.
There was a case I read about in which a racehorse developed a pronounced limp, which baffled vets because it didn't seem to have any cause they could determine. Then it was discovered that a stablehand had a gammy leg and the horse was imitating him.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
