'A Horse's World' offers an important read about the cognitive and emotional lives of horses.

Jones provides a deep revealing window into horses' hearts and minds from the inside out.

The bond between horses and humans is the stuff of legend that no other prey and predator animals share.

Horses are amazingly intelligent, highly emotional, sentient animals. The more I read about these fascinating beings, the more I realize how much I don't know and how much I want to learn more. When I first heard about neuroscientist Dr. Janet Jones's new book A Horse's World: A Neuroscientist's Journey into the Equine Mind, I couldn't wait to read it, and hardly a day goes by that I don't pick it up and flip through it.

Packed with science, stories, heart, and love, Jones's work of art is a seminal and invaluable book about the cognitive and emotional lives of horses in which she offers a detailed exploration of these charismatic beings, whose beauty and service we have adored for millennia while ignoring their hearts and minds. All in all, Jones offers us a window into the animals themselves so we can appreciate who they are from the inside out.

Marc Bekoff: Why did you write A Horse's World?

Janet Jones: Horses have been treated as objects, not subjects, for far too long. As the first animal cognition book about horses to be written for the general public, A Horse’s World is an exploration of equines themselves—not of their immense service as war machines, artistic muses, topics of natural history, human entertainment, or aids to civilization. We already have centuries of written matter that dissect the horse’s use, his human purpose, and how it changed with evolution, domestication, exploration, and military power. Horses are the most charismatic of animals, yet while we adore their beauty and value their service, we still ignore their hearts and minds. We need a window into the actual animal, and we can appreciate who........

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