Contents -- Foreword To The French Edition -- Foreword To The English Edition -- Preface -- 1. What We Know About The Nature Of The Horse -- Then and Now -- Discovering the Real Life of Free-Ranging Horses -- Equine Ethology Studies to Pursue -- The Emergence of a New Field of Research: The Cognitive Ethology of the Horse -- 2. Equine Intelligence -- A Rash of Clever Horses -- 3. Animal Intelligence, Cognition, And Representation -- Intelligence and Cognition -- Animal Behavior, Cognition, and Representation -- 4. The Equine Brain -- Nervous Tissue and the General Organization of the Mammalian Nervous System -- Brain and Mind in the Light of Evolution -- 5. The Nature Of Equine Perception -- Perception: A Dynamic Process That Constructs the World -- A Few Issues Regarding the Study of Equine Perception -- 6. The Anatomical And Physiological Basis Of Equine Visual Perception -- Size, Arrangement of the Eyes, and Visual Field -- Anatomical Structure of the Eye -- A Short Tour of the Anatomy of the Retina -- Structure of the Retina and Visual Quality -- Optical Pathways and Cortical Distribution -- Chromatic Theory and Color Perception -- 7. The Behavioral Exploration Of Equine Visual Perception: Perception Of Shapes And Movement -- Experimental Procedures -- Visual Acuity -- The Visual Field -- Night Vision -- The Visual Apparatus: An Integrated System... -- …In the Context of Cerebral Hemispheric Specialization -- Perceiving the Third Dimension -- Image Recognition -- Object Recognition -- Perceiving Movement -- The Equine Visual Environment: Seen as a Whole or the Sum of Its Parts? -- 8. The Behavioral Exploration Of Equine Visual Perception: The Quest For Color Perception -- Brightness: A Vexing Dimension -- A Pioneering Study (Grzimek 1952) -- An Inconclusive Replication (Pick et al. 1994).

An Apparent Confirmation of Grzimek's Results (Smith and Goldman 1999) -- New Uncertainties Centering on Brightness (Macuda and Timney 1999) -- The Evidence for a Neutral Point (Gelsbauer et al. 2004) -- Color Preferences (Hall et al. 2005) -- Do Horses Perceive the Entire Color Spectrum? (Hall et al. 2006) -- The Neutral Point: Break or Continuity? (Roth, Balkenius, and Kelber 2007) -- Equine Dichromacy: A Qualification (Hanggi, Ingersoll, and Waggoner 2007) -- A New Experiment in Chromatic Discrimination (Blackmore et al. 2008) -- How Well Do Horses Discriminate Color in Half-Light? (Roth, Balkenius, and Kelber 2008) -- Colors That Can be Fairly Well Discriminated across the Light Spectrum (Timney and Macuda 2009) -- A Provisional Summing Up -- 9. Hearing In Horses -- Nature, Representation, and Characterization of Acoustic Information -- The Equine Auditory System: Anatomy and Physiology -- Behavioral Exploration of Equine Auditory Perception -- 10. Equine Chemical Perception: Odors, Pheromones, Tastes, And Flavors -- Olfactory Perception in the Horse -- From Taste to Flavor -- 11. Tactile Perception In The Horse -- Structure and Function of Horse Skin -- Receptors: Equine Sensory Pathways and Skin Sensitivity -- Mutual Grooming and Neurophysiological Response -- Tactile Stimulation and Interspecific Social Relationships -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.