Trivia Tidbits: Why do horses breathe into each other’s nostrils?

This week’s Trivia Tidbits question is: Why do horses breathe into each other’s nostrils?
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Last week’s answer: A horse displaying the facial expression of a curled upper lip pressed back on the nose, with its neck and head extended upward, is exhibiting the “flehmen” response. A horse does this when it detects an odor worthy of pressing into a sensitive olfactory discrimination area called the vomeronasal organ, which is located in the nasal cavity.

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Permalink Reply by Emily on January 21, 2012 at 3:55pm

When horses breathe into each others nostrils it can be a greeting and when you blow into their nostrils you saying that you want to be their friend and if they blow back then that means that they acept that.

Permalink Reply by Barnmice Media on January 23, 2012 at 9:48am