Horse Sport wrote about a new comic discussing how horses think, and how their owners relate to them:
Scientists, and an increasing number of horse owners, know more than ever about how the mind of a horse works, how to motivate them in training, what they feel, and how to ensure their well-being. However, up-to-date scientific knowledge is not always easily accessible to the horse-owning public who do not read scientific publications or books.
A new approach to science communication has arrived thanks to a Finnish science communication company, Arador Innovations, who authored the non-fiction graphic novel Hevosen mieli. Tiedettä sarjakuvana (The Mind of a Horse. Science Meets Comics) as a new method for public communication of equitation science with the aim of a substantial, positive impact on equine welfare.
Designed for both teenage readers and adults, the book was discussed at the 2025 International Society for Equitation Science conference, as it is believed to be the first non-fiction graphic novel or book-length comic published on the cognition, ethology, or welfare science of any species of animal in Europe. […]
Well it’s certainly a great idea, and let’s hope there’ll be more like it in the future.
Originally published here
Avi Green
Avi Green was born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Israel at the age of 9. His first comic was the Fantastic Four. He considers himself a conservative-style version of Clark Kent, and his blog the Four Color Media Monitor is where he says "if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong." His blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong. Follow him on X @AviGreen1
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