Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/560/en

The sense organization concentrates especially on the outward-directed, distance-encompassing senses — eye, ear and smell. The expressive, strikingly large eyes, set to the sides of the head, take in a nearly complete circle of vision. Only forward — in front of and below the head — is there a blind strip of roughly two metres that cannot be seen into; likewise behind, on both sides of the spine. In depth perception (three-dimensional seeing) the horse takes in only a relatively narrow angle of vision of fifteen to twenty degrees to the front. In the remaining arc of its visual field the sight flattens and blurs toward the rear. Precisely in that blind strip to the rear sits the rider, the coachman, or the ploughman walking behind the plough, who with a gentle pull on the lead rein or through the snaffle bit determines the gait and the direction of movement. In the lively play of the ear-flaps the direction of soul-attention is revealed in finest nuance. Sounds inaudible to us are filtered out from the general noise. The horse takes in above all through its hearing the soul-mood of its environment — how, for example, one speaks to it. The position of the ears, whether pricked or drooping, betrays much about its soul-feeling.