The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like ...
The low sounds in horse whinnies are at a frequency of about 200 Hz, like this tone, while the high sounds are in the bird-song range, exceeding 1,000 Hz like this tone. The low sounds have been ...
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 ...
The ability to make two distinct sounds at once is shared with human beat boxers and throat singers. The horse whinny, or neigh, has been a familiar sound at least since the animal was domesticated, ...
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 ...
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 ...