Horses Ask People for Help

Horses ask us for help if only we can interpret their requests.  Scientists in Japan tested horses under
two conditions:

- they observed a person seeing food hidden (carrots in a bucket) that they couldn't get to

- they observed a person come on the scene and not be aware of where the food was hidden
In both cases, the horses adapted their behavior to try and signal the person about the hidden food by using visual signals and touch. In the second scenario, the horse tried using more signals and persisted for a longer period of time to try to communicate with the person.

"These two experiments revealed some behaviors used by horses to communicate demands to humans. They also suggest that horses possess high cognitive skills that enable them to flexibly alter their behavior towards humans according to humans' knowledge state. This high social cognitive ability may have been acquired during the domestication process."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161215080846.htm#.WFYNimxIIy0.facebook