* After this, Hans’s reputation went down the drain. He met a tragic and undeserved end. I’m a softy, and it’s too hard for me to write it in my words, so I’ll quote from a paper in the Communicative & Integrative Biology journal: “At the beginning of World War I in 1914 he was drafted as a military horse and was killed in action in 1916 or was consumed by hungry soldiers.”