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"... I came across an endearing fact about the Danish government. Its Ministry of Justice is to introduce a bill that «specifies that keepers of horses should have at least two horses ... to recommend that horses have social contact». Some veterinary research had showed that horses not only like to see each other, but to touch each other. Horses are herd animals, experiencing an inconsolable misery when alone that only another of their kind can assuage. They scratch each other in places hard to reach, and stand nose-to-tail in the summer in a symbiotic arrangement so that each tail flicks flies off the nose of the other."