How Do Horses Find Their Way Home?

Abstract

It seems to be generally &ought that horses, being cursorial, intelligent, and with good vision, find their way about largely through the use of their eyes and their memory. While there is no doubt that a horse uses its sense of smell in selection of food and solcia1 interactions, it does not seem to be generally appreciated that this sense of smell may also be very functional in directional orientation. I made the following observations on an old female pack horse in November 1977, in Corcovado National Park (Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica) .