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Horses are probably the most intelligent animal in our planet: My cousin's horse can do additions, if you ask two numbers it will stomp the ground to tell you the result.
It is often frighteningly accurate.
If you're asking it to add numbers below 10 there's an up to 5% of getting it right. And I doubt you're asking it to add 9+9 so probably closer to 10% and above if you're asking it to put, say, 4+4 together.
That said, I don't think they're dumb at all.
Out of animals their size, they've found a niche for sure and avoided becoming irrelevant for thousands of years (since ~3500 BCE).
Well, if we didn't have horses, how else could we tell how fast can a car go? By cat power? Haha, clearly our world turns around, or let me say, the world trots around thanks to our equine friends.
We should be just careful of who is riding who.
Seeing as how America still measures things in foot, I think the measurement for horsepower would probably be "manpower", as weak as that is. Or maybe dogpower? I know first nation people used dogs as sled animals, and that's pretty much universal - except for Oceania.
uh, statesia uses horses. sensible places use (kilo)watts.