Horse Facts Review

Horse hoofed animals - hoofed mammals. They also have long tails, short hair, muscular torso, thick long necks and elongated heads. Through domestication, they found worldwide.

Horses have lived on Earth for 50 million years, according to the American Museum of Natural History. According to Scientific American, in North America the first horses emerged and spread to Asia and then Europe. Horse left in America was extinct about 10,000 years ago and were colonized by Europeans reintroduced.

It is believed that horses were first domesticated in Asia between 3000 and 4000 BC, according to Oklahoma State University. At that time, horses were used mainly for milk and meat. Finally, horses won out as a way to transport animals.

Size

There are over 400 different breeds of horses. Horses can be as large as 69 inches (175 centimeters) in engagement with shoulder and weigh up to 2,200 pounds. (998 kg). There are also tiny horses. Smaller breeds of horses can be (76 centimeters) engages the shoulder and weighs only 120 pounds as small as 30 inches. (54 kg), according to National Geographic.

Habitat

The horses are found in almost every country in the world and on every continent except Antarctica. For example, the Abyssinian is in Ethiopia, Budyonny comes from Russia, is Deliboz of Georgia and Armenia, came from Egypt and the Egyptian Rangerbred Colorado comes from the plains of Colorado, according to Oklahoma State University.

Habits

Horses are very social animals. They live in groups called prides. In the wild horse herds consist of three to 20 animals and be a grown man who is called to lead a horse to live, according to National Geographic are. The rest of the pack is made up of women and made her cubs.

Diet

Horses are herbivores. This means that only feed on plants. Usually eat grass horse, but domestic horses are often saved, oats, barley and hay fed well. A well-fed horse eats 1-2 percent of their body weight in fiber, such as grass or hay every day, according to the Humane Society. Domesticated horses are also given blocks salt blocks minerals and fled. This is to supplement the diet that will make the horses of their food.

Horses have a single stomach, unlike cows, and is small. So, to get enough food, every horse must grazing days.

Offspring

Horses have live births to about 11 months pregnant. Some people mistakenly call horse baby ponies. Actually descendants horse named foals. Adult horses ponies, which are shorter than 56 inches (147 cm) for Encyclopedia Britannica. Horses Shetland and Welsh are common horse races.

The colt is able to stay shortly after birth, and is mature at 3-5 years. 2 years old, male foal away from the herd driven by the stallion. Young banning together in a herd, until they find a herd of females, which may lead them.

Classification / taxonomy

According to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System is the horse taxonomy as follows:

Kingdom:

• Antipode: Bilateria
• Infra Kingdom: Deuterostomia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Subphylum: Vertebrates
• Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
• Top class: Tetrapoda
• Class: Mammalia
• Subclass: Theria
• Infra: Eutheria
• Order: Perissodactyla
• Family: Equidae
• Genre: Equus
• Species: Horse

The condition

The only truly wild horse Przewalski's horse. This horse instead of Manchuria to Spain. Reintroduced population after China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, according to the San Diego Zoo. Currently, the Przewalski horse is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of Threatened Species. The population is growing, however. At last count, in 2008, there were about 2,000 Przewalski horses alive.

Other facts

Many people think that Mustangs are wild horses, but they call themselves descendants of Spanish horses, the Iberian horse. As descendants of domesticated horses, mustangs technically wild horses and wild horses are not.

The horses have four speeds called airs. Go (slow speed), jogging (slightly faster than walking), gallop (faster than a trot) and Galop (a higher gear horse).

Faroe Pony horse is the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. It is one of the oldest breeds of horses. This breed is very rare, to the point of almost extinct.

Hungarian warm blood was bred to be a horse race sport. They are used for dressage, eventing, jumping and combined driving events used to Oklahoma State University.

Equus word comes from an ancient Greek word, such as Oklahoma State University is "speed".