A horse’s whinny is an iconic sound, arguably on par with a cow’s moo and a sheep’s baa and a donkey’s hee-haw. Most people can immediately recognize a horse’s signature sound, so it might come as a ...

The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like ...

They found that a single whinny can include simultaneous low and high sounds, suggesting that horses have a richer spectrum of calls than other mammals. The low sounds in horse whinnies are at a ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

If only horses could speak up and let us know when something hurts, right? Guess what: They can. Dutch researchers recently learned that, although horses can’t speak, they do have distinct ways of ...

New research from ARU Writtle, part of Anglia Ruskin University, has found that most people struggle to recognise when a horse is in pain – a finding that could have serious implications for animal ...