The Importance of Speaking Kindly to Horses (and Pigs)

Fresh research has put forward a strong case for speaking kindly to horses and pigs. The way we speak matters to animals, the scientists concluded. In the study the researchers played recordings of animal sounds and human voices from hidden speakers. To avoid having the domesticated animals react to specific words, positive and negative human speech was performed by a professional voice actor in a kind of gibberish without any meaningful phrases.