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These horses are unaffected by petting in children's zoo, heart rate monitors reveal
- June 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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The horses at the Children's Zoo in Gothenburg don't mind being petted by children and adults. However, they do get stressed by the noise from an excavator. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg discovered this after fitting heart rate monitors to eight Gotland Russ horses. The research is published in the journal Zoo Biology.
Originally published at Phys.org