This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/16/00 5:55:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< There's something I've noticed about horses for years. I've asked vets about it, and they had to look to see what I was talking about and had no clue as to what it was. Mostly I noticed it in my Arabs. They have those huge nostrils. It isn't as evident in Fjords, as they're nostrils are differently shaped (due to the necessity of warming their breath before it enters the lungs in their home country????). Anyway, I know it seems weird. But if you look at your horse, in his/her nostril will be what looks like a huge pore. I thought it was some kind of scar when I saw it in my first horse. But then I noticed horse after horse after horse has this. But I was listening to Oregon Public Broadcast Radio last Sunday and they said to wait and they would tell you about an organ you never knew you had! Okay, they got my attention. Said it is a Jacobson Organ (Brian, where are you now!). It is a large pore like thing in nostrils of all mammals! It is most evident though in reptiles. It does serve a purpose they say. It sends primal scents, that we aren't even consciously aware of to the back of the brain, the most primitive part. I guess searching for that musk smell. When you get the feeling when you see somebody that they like you or do NOT like you, it may not just be body language (according to the speaker on the show), but you could be picking up on the subliminal scent of the person reacting to you. So, for me that small mystery is solved. Had to pass it on. But I wonder if anybody else has ever even noticed these little pores in their horses? Pamela >> Somehow the term "vomero-nasal organ" or something like it, and the term "flehmen posture" seems to sound like what you are describing. Input?
