I'm trying to learn how inheritance works in Perl 5. I have big problems to make it work and I can not understand what I´m doing wrong. 
#!/user/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $horse1 = Horse->new("George the Horse", 12);
$horse1->present();
$horse1->animalmethod();


############################
############################
package Animal;
{
  
  sub animalmethod
  {
    my ($self)=@_;
    print "I´m an animal. My name is $self->{Name}. I´m $self->{Age} y
+ears old\n";
  }

}

package Horse;
{

our @ISA=("Animal");

  sub new
  {
    my ($class, $name, $age) = @_;
    my $ref = {Name=>$name, Age=>$age};
    bless($ref, $class);
  }
  
  sub present
  {
    my ($self)=@_;

    if($self->isa("Animal"))
    {
        print "I'm an animal.\n";
    }

    else
    {
        print "I'm not an animal.\n";
    }
  }
}

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The code above contains a animal class and a horse class. The ISA-array should as I understand it instruct the hosre class to inherit from the animalclass. Thus the horse should be an animal and be able to use animal methods. When I run the code however the result is:

I´m not an animal. Can´t locate object method animalmethod via package "Horse".

I´m writing excactly as it is written in the OO-manuals but it still doesn´t work. Could anyone be kind and tell me what the problem is?

In reply to Inheritance in Perl5 by tamaguchi

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