Abstract
Horses tend to be more vocal when in a barn in order to compensate for reduced visibility, restricted mobility, and close access by intruders. This can express itself in such ways as a vocal greeting to the arrival of a feed cart. Under these conditions it has established that the spectral content of whinnies can vary between specific behavioral situations, although we are still a long way from determining what this implies. Here we compare whinnies for two different horse breeds (at two different locations), Arabians (Michigan State University) and Morgans (University of Connecticut) under similar situations. Arabians appear to have a wider range of frequency variation at times even approaching the rapid sweep of their fellow artiodactyls, the tapirs. On the other hand, Morgans can exhibit a stronger tremolo, which many associate with whinnies. In general there does appear to be a significant difference between the two horse breeds in their vocal responses.
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