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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would it make you feel better to know that horses bias very heavily to the flight side of fight or flight?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they're real good at injuring themselves and those around them when they do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until it gets a leg stuck in the tent somehow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The are so heavily biased into running away that getting their legs stuck is a common way for them to lose a leg.

What the GP gets wrong is on the assumption that it's safe to be near a horse trying to run away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But that's a brown horse. I've only ever seen white horses fly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but what if it flies into the tent and crushes me