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  Olfactory Stimulation: Improving the Well-being of Domestic Horses

  2025-02-11

  Olfactory stimulation, or olfactotherapy, is an emerging tool to enrich the environment of domestic horses, thus improving their quality of life. This approach leverages the highly developed sense of smell in horses, which possess an impressive number of olfactory receptors. By integrating suitable olfactory stimuli into the horses’ environment, it is possible to positively influence their behavior and reduce their stress.
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  Detecting Human Emotions in Horses: The Role of Smell

  2024-04-26

  The ability of horses to detect human emotions is a fascinating area of research, exploring the multiple senses used by these animals in their interaction with humans. 
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  Response to Stress and Immune Responses in Young and Old Horses after Transport

  2023-12-10

  However, it has been observed that transport, particularly over long distances, can increase stress and reduce immune function in equines. It would appear that older horses are more prone to alterations in immune function in response to trailer transport.
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  Equine olfactotherapy

  2019-08-13

  Smell is the only sense that accesses our unconscious directly, unlike the other 4 senses, which first go through the mentalization of what is perceived. In fact, the transmission circuit in the brain for smells is totally different from that for sounds, tastes, perceptions and sight.