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# The famous horse celebrated for being able to read and count is believed to have perished during the First World War
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- Published: 2024-11-05T06:30:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Science, Nature, Humour

In its day, the mental powers of this horse astonished the European public.

Investigators, however, were able to establish that the horse could neither count nor read after all, but could pick up even the slightest changes in a person's facial expression, and it was this that helped it to give the right answers. The procedure was as follows: the horse was set an arithmetical problem, and it tapped out the correct answer with its hoof. It went on tapping until it saw a change in the face of the person who had posed the question. This person, its partner, had only to give it a sign when to stop.

Just imagine: the horse could not count, but it could read faces to perfection. And it was able to learn to perform such a curious theatrical turn in tandem with a human being. No small achievement in itself.

When the men conducting the investigation had worked this out, they also understood that the horse, in fact, cannot be deceived, since it is a flawless physiognomist and always sees the changes in the face that betray liars.

Like the series with Tim Roth, only with a horse in the role of the lie detector