When a horse is struck on the back with a whip it switches the spot with its tail. The horse knows it is a whip and not an insect, but the reflexive muscles of its tail are so highly developed that it instinctively switches before the horse has time to telegraph the true state of affairs to its brain.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1938, Page 13
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