Are we our own worst enemy?

[caikgoch]

37 minutes ago, heavyhorse said:




Must disagree on that.  Noticed while I was still in my 'teens that when the horse suddenly "comes to attention" (motionless, head up, ears forward), if I stared intently in the same direction I eventually saw a guy's head and shoulders coming over a hill 3 properties over.  Other times it would be a deer in the tree line a quarter mile away.  Horses vision may be monochromatic, but it's about 330 degree view and way sharper than human vision.  (Usually.  YMMV.  I had a pony once that was nearly bat blind, her eyes bulged in a very unnatural way.)

Horses are better at spotting motion and change.      Humans are better with color and pattern recognition.      He may alert first but I'm the one that knows how to react to whatever it is.      He trusts my judgement of potential threats.