{"id":252449,"date":"2024-08-08T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/the-science-is-clear-repeatedly-whipping-a-horse-wont-help-it-learn\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:47","slug":"the-science-is-clear-repeatedly-whipping-a-horse-wont-help-it-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/the-science-is-clear-repeatedly-whipping-a-horse-wont-help-it-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"The science is clear: repeatedly whipping a horse won&#8217;t help it learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/06103458\/SEI_215982571.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2442788\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"Simone Rotella\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite generally good welfare for horses at the 2024 Paris Olympics, many animal lovers remain haunted by troubling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/video\/2024\/jul\/24\/charlotte-dujardin-whips-horse-more-than-20-times-in-video-shared-with-the-guardian-video\">video footage<\/a> of Britain\u2019s triple Olympic gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin mistreating a horse during a training session, which emerged just days before the opening ceremony. Dujardin had been set to compete this summer in dressage \u2013 the sport in which horses perform elegant steps and dance-like movements, often to music. But there was a public outcry after the video showed her forcefully striking a clearly distressed horse more than 20 times over a minute-long clip.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped of sponsorships and suspended by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335032-000-the-science-is-clear-repeatedly-whipping-a-horse-wont-help-it-learn\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Despite generally good welfare for horses at the 2024 Paris Olympics, many animal lovers remain haunted by troubling video footage of Britain\u2019s triple Olympic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}