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No. 275. Lucy Rees - Horse Ethology


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Writer, equine ethologist and tamer, Lucy is a Welsh woman who has traveled and worked in various countries searching for the easiest, most universally applicable and most successful ways of dealing with horses. After studying zoology at the University of London, specializing in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and ethology, she did his postgraduate studies at the University of Sussex, England. Later she had a somewhat atypical horse farm in the mountains of Snowdonia, Wales, where she began to tame the wild horses of that mountain range, gaining fame for her special treatment of horses with problems; she also started writing his first books (novels). She traveled to many countries, especially Ireland, the United States and Portugal, where she amassed extensive experience in different cultures and ways of taming horses, which gave rise to her book The Mind of the Horse , in which she combined experience with studies equine ethology scientists. This book had and still has an enormous influence, as it is the first book that dealt with equine behavior in a scientific way but with a popular character. She starred in two television movies, To Ride a Wild Horse , filmed for HTV in 1984 in which she captured and tamed a wild mustang stallion in the Arizona desert, and Horse Shaman.in 2002, for the television of Catalonia. She regularly writes for different English and Spanish magazines (and not always about horses) and teaches at different universities in both countries. Apart from popularizing knowledge about dressage and dealing with horses through courses, clinics and conferences. Those who see her dealing with horses often refer to her as a whisperer, but Lucy has always been an advocate of the scientific method

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