Lateralization in Horses, Equus Caballus, has been reported at both motor and sensory levels. Here we investigated left and right nostril use in 12 show jumper horses freely sniffing different emotive stimuli. Results revealed that during sniffing at adrenaline and oestrus mare urine stimuli, horses showed a clear right-nostril bias while just a tendency in the use of the right nostril was observed during sniffing at other odours (food, cotton swab, repellent). Sniffing at adrenaline and urine odours was also accompanied by increasing cardiac activity and behavioural reactivity strengthening the role of the right hemisphere in the analysis of intense emotion and sexual behavior.

Right nostril use during sniffing at arousal stimuli produces higher cardiac activity in jumper horses

SINISCALCHI, Marcello
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PADALINO, Barbara;QUARANTA, Angelo
2015-01-01

Abstract

Lateralization in Horses, Equus Caballus, has been reported at both motor and sensory levels. Here we investigated left and right nostril use in 12 show jumper horses freely sniffing different emotive stimuli. Results revealed that during sniffing at adrenaline and oestrus mare urine stimuli, horses showed a clear right-nostril bias while just a tendency in the use of the right nostril was observed during sniffing at other odours (food, cotton swab, repellent). Sniffing at adrenaline and urine odours was also accompanied by increasing cardiac activity and behavioural reactivity strengthening the role of the right hemisphere in the analysis of intense emotion and sexual behavior.
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