Dr. Temple Grandin and associates recently published the article "Behavioral Laterality and Facial Hair Whorls in Horses." When faced with a novel stimulus, in this case the sudden opening of an umbrella, "The horses with clockwise facial hair whorls turned to the right and the horses with counterclockwise facial hair whorls turned to the left more than would be expected by chance." Location of facial whirl seemed to have no impact.
Hum, the one time I saw Blessi have a major spook, he teleported almost 360 to the right, which is the direction of his facial whorl, I think. I will check tomorrow. Of course what does this mean for horses that have multiple facial whorls going in different directions.
Does anybody else have any observations to offer?
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