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The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated and historically linked to the megafauna category of species. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.

Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess an excellent sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under a saddle or in a harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.

Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. (Full article...)

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Black Allan at James Brantley's farm, c. 1905

Black Allan or Allan F-1 (1886 – 1910) was the foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse. He was out of a Morgan and Thoroughbred cross mare named Maggie Marshall, a descendant of Figure and the Thoroughbred racing stallion Messenger; and sired by Allandorf, a Standardbred stallion descended from Hambletonian 10, also of the Messenger line.

Black Allan was registered as No. 7623 by the American Trotting Registry. Although Black Allan was supposed to be a trotter, he preferred to pace, and so never raced. Besides the pace, he performed a lateral ambling gait now known as the running walk. (Full article...)

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Silver dapple-colored Rocky Mountain Horse

The Rocky Mountain Horse is a horse breed developed in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Despite its name, it originated not in the Rocky Mountains, but instead in the Appalachian Mountains. A foundation stallion, brought from the western United States to eastern Kentucky around 1890, began the Rocky Mountain type in the late 19th century. In the mid-20th century, a stallion named Old Tobe, owned by a prominent breeder, was used to develop the modern type; today most Rocky Mountain Horses trace back to this stallion. In 1986, the Rocky Mountain Horse Association was formed and by 2005 has registered over 12,000 horses. The breed is known for its preferred "chocolate" coat color and flaxen mane and tail, the result of the relatively rare silver dapple gene acting on a black coat, seen in much of the population. It also exhibits a four-beat ambling gait known as the "single-foot". Originally developed as a multi-purpose riding, driving and light draft horse, today it is used mainly for trail riding and working cattle. (Full article...)

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Image 1Surroundings of the Shirenzigou archaeological site in Barkol County. (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 2A Luristan bronze horse bit (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 3This image shows a representative sequence, but should not be construed to represent a "straight-line" evolution of the horse. Reconstruction, left forefoot skeleton (third digit emphasized yellow) and longitudinal section of molars of selected prehistoric horses (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 4A dehydrated anatomical specimen (from Equine anatomy)
Image 5Restoration of Eurohippus parvulus, a mid- to late Eocene equid of Europe (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 6Eohippus, with left forefoot (third metacarpal colored) and tooth (a, enamel; b, dentin; c, cement) detailed (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 7Reconstruction of possible ancestral coat colors. (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 8Equus caballus germanicus front leg, teeth and upper jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 9Fossil Megahippus mckennai (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 10Terracotta urn in the shape of a horse (Iran, 1000 BCE) at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 11Equine stomach. (from Equine anatomy)
Image 12Merychippus, an effective grazer and runner (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 13Secondary characteristics of a stallion include heavier muscling for a given breed than is seen in mares or geldings, often with considerable development along the crest of the neck, as shown in this image. (from Equine anatomy)
Image 14Skull of a giant extinct horse, Equus eisenmannae (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 15Pliohippus pernix (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 16A horse's skeleton (from Equine anatomy)
Image 171- Heel perioplium, 2-Bulb, 3-Frog, 4-Frog cleft, 5-Lateral groove, 6-Heel, 7-Bar, 8-Seat-of-corn, 9-Pigmented walls 10-Water line, 11-White line, 12-Apex of the frog, 13-Sole, 14-Toe, 15-How to measure hoof width (blue dotted line), 16-Quarter, 17-How to measure length (blue dotted line) (from Equine anatomy)
Image 18The pinna of a horse's ears can rotate in any direction to pick up sounds (from Equine anatomy)
Image 19Mounted skeleton of Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens) (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 20Drawing of a horse, a mammoth, a rhinoceros in the Shulgan-Tash Cave, 25-10 thousand years B.C. (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 21Chariots of Ramesses II and the Hittites in the Battle of Kadesh, 1274 BCE (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 22The early stages of domestication were marked by a rapid increase in coat color variation. (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 23Restoration of Mesohippus (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 24Relief depicting Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in a chariot, inspecting booty and prisoners from Babylon (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 25Protohippus simus (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 26A horse painting from a cave in Lascaux (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 27Restoration of Phenacodus (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 28The dispersal of the DOM2 genetic lineage, believed to be the ancestor of all modern domesticated horses, is linked with the populations which preceded the Sintashta culture and their expansions. (from Domestication of the horse)
Image 29A horse's eye (from Equine anatomy)
Image 30alt=Muscles of the Horse Torso (from Equine anatomy)
Image 31Skeletal evolution (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 32Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. (from Evolution of the horse)
Image 33Points of a horse (from Equine anatomy)
Image 34Equine colon (from Equine anatomy)
Image 35A Heck Horse, bred to resemble the now-extinct Tarpan (from Domestication of the horse)

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