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Janet Jones has been fascinated by horses since childhood. She’s now a horse trainer and a neuroscientist, which allows her to explore the minds of the animals to which she’s devoted her life. She even wrote a recent <\/p>\n

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Jones says there’s an enormous gap between the way humans have relied on horses for tens of thousands of years \u2013 and what we actually know about their brains.<\/p>\n

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“Horses experience the world in a totally different way than we do. And yet we ride them. We work with them,” she says. “And so horses are perhaps the best example of an animal that can broaden or stretch the edges of our minds to see the world in a completely different way.”<\/p>\n

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Janet Jones<\/a> has been fascinated by horses since childhood. She\u2019s now a horse trainer and a neuroscientist, which allows her to explore the minds of the animals to which she\u2019s devoted her life. She even recently wrote a book all about their brains<\/a>. She says there\u2019s an enormous gap between the way humans have relied on horses for tens of thousands of years \u2013 and what we actually know about their brains. And they have lots to teach us humans. That\u2019s why we\u2019re diving into science today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interested in more science? Email us your question at <\/em>shortwave@npr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include bonus episodes, early access, archive access, curated playlists, sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <\/em>plus.npr.org<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-wave"],"yoast_head":"\nInside the mind of one of the most majestic animals on Earth - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=3280\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside the mind of one of the most majestic animals on Earth - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Janet Jones has been fascinated by horses since childhood. 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