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Horses are beautiful animals and they are very intelligent
Here are some facts about horses
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Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.
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Horses can run shortly after birth.
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Domestic horses have a lifespan of around 25 years.
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Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
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Horses have been domesticated for over 5000 years.
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Horses are herbivores (plant eaters).
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Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.
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Because horse’s eyes are on the side of their head they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time.
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Horses gallop at around 44 kph (27 mph).
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The fastest recorded sprinting speed of a horse was 88 kph (55 mph).
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Estimates suggest that there are around 60 million horses in the world.
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Scientists believe that horses have evolved over the past 50 million years from much smaller creatures.
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A male horse is called a stallion.
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A female horse is called a mare.
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A young male horse is called a colt.
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A young female horse is called a filly.
ABOUT THE HORSE
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Horses and humans have an ancient relationship.
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Asian nomads probably domesticated the first horses some 4,000 years ago, and the animals remained essential to many human societies until the advent of the engine.
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Horses still hold a place of honor in many cultures, often linked to heroic exploits in war.
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Wild and Domesticated
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There is only one species of domestic horse, but around 400 different breeds that specialize in everything from pulling wagons to racing.
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All horses are grazers The Przewalski's horse is the only truly wild horse whose ancestors were never domesticated.
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Ironically, this stocky, sturdy animal exists today only in captivity. The last wild Przewalski's horse was seen in Mongolia in 1968.