Most people don't like to be considered "predators," but we belong to a species of that biological class. Yet we can interact with prey animals to great benefit.
Executive functions like analyzing, deciding, and thinking get prey animals killed.Because they are large, strong, skittish prey animals, horses are difficult to study.One of the most controversial aspects of my work exploring the relationship between horse and human brains is the distinction between predator and prey. Most people do not appreciate being called “predators,” despite the fact that the entire species of homo sapiens belongs to that biological classification.
To those who argue that present-day humans are not predators and today's horses are not prey, my apologies. Our brains—both horse and human—were designed through evolution a long, long time ago. And evolution always lags behind the present. Many people still get red in the face, our blood pressure spikes, and our hands tingle from episodes as safe as standing in a line or waiting in traffic. That's the evolutionary human sympatheticat work...
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