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We know that photographs lie. Or, rather, that they can be made to lie. It would be clean, easy, to refute the possibility of visual veracity, to declare that contemporary photographic images are too vulnerable to manipulation to ever show us something that we could consider true.
The aim of this essay is to address the challenges and problems in communicating with horses and interpreting their communication in everyday handling and training situations. We seek ways to learn more about equine communication and agency in the prevention of cruelty against animals and in enhancing animal welfare. We ask how it would be possible to learn to read the subtle signs of equine communication and agency in a sensible, sensitive, and ethical way to increase the health and wellbeing of horses that humans interact with. We have placed this theoretical examination in a multidisciplina...