Chip Chick on MSN
Scientists have been mystified by how horses whinny, but now they think they've figured it out
For a long time, scientists have been mystified by how horses are able to produce their unique whinny. The vocalization ...
A new study finds that horse whinnies are made of both a high and a low frequency, generated by different parts of the vocal ...
An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...
New Scientist on MSN
A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature
Horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whistling at the same time ...
Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone ...
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