"It's not like when the horses smell another animal that they have the word 'fear' cross their minds," she said. "But now we do know that [horses] can differentiate odors from different emotional ...

Horses also tend to be more excitable than cows—hence the blinders—and the smell of blood makes them nervous. Like other “flight animals,” when they’re scared, they try to run.

The yurt smelled of horse. Not in a way I was familiar with–like the nutty odor of a wet saddle pad, which makes me pine for a mountain trail. This was the smell of cooked horse meat.