ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the signals horses use in their domesticated living environment. It explores how a horse understands and experiences his living conditions. The chapter also focuses at the body language of horses, especially the body signals and language related to responding and communicating. It expresses that there are different signals within the group of calming signals, different signals in the group displacement activities and so on. Within each group of communication signals, every horse uses its own particular signals. Horses seem to have personal preferences and form habits. Horses do not lie. Their posture and body language show how they feel and what their intentions are. Emotions and signals come and go according to how the horse is feeling. How a horse experiences a stimulus, how he responds and communicates, can be deduced from his body signals.
