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Hair whorl (horse)
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Hair whorl (horse) : ウィキペディア英語版
Hair whorl (horse)
A hair whorl is a patch of hair growing in the opposite direction of the rest of the hair. Hair whorls can occur on animals with hairy coats, and are often found on horses and cows. Locations where whorls are found in equines include the stomach area, the face, stifle areas, and sometimes on the hocks. Hair whorls in horses are also known as crowns, swirls, trichoglyphs, or cowlicks and can be either clockwise or counterclockwise in direction of growth. One study has found that horses can be shown to have left- or right-footed lateral motion from the direction of growth (clockwise or counterclockwise) of their cowlicks.
== Evidence ==
Although the field of linking whorls to behavior is generally considered a pseudoscience, one study of 219 horses that race, show jump, or event the following results have been found, “104 left-footed horses, researchers found 78 or 75 percent has anticlockwise hair whorls. And out of 95 that favored their right side, 64 or 67 percent had clockwise whorls.” This information has since been applied to breeding racehorses to run straighter.
A study was done by Poland Scientists involving Konik horses, and they discovered a link between the location and the shape of hair whorls adjacent to the eyes of a horse with how it responds to handling and unfamiliar objects. From recorded observations horses that had a single whorl located above their eyes were more difficult to handle. Then the horses that also had a single whorl but located below or right in between their eyes were easier to handle. Whorls that were found to be elongated or doubled acted the most cautious when coming up to an unfamiliar object. They looked longer and were slower to approaching then the single whorled horses.
On June 23, 2008, Irish researchers also found the same outcome when it came to horse whorls. Right-footed horses were more likely to have whorls growing in clockwise circles and left-handed horses more likely to have their whorls growing counterclockwise.

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