The results of a new study have confirmed what humans have suspected about horses for millennia: They can smell our fear, and it’s contagious.

Turns out the old saying about animals smelling fear isn’t just folk wisdom. Horses actually can detect when humans are afraid through scent alone, and new research suggests that fear-related ...

Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a new study has found. Researchers collected samples of odor compounds from the ...

Horses can smell your fear. If you are experiencing this emotion while standing near a horse, they will be able to detect it through your scent alone, which changes their behavior and physiology. That ...

Feds planning to remove 14,000 wild horses from the West in controversial helicopter round-ups due to drought and wildfire ...