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Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. Wild horses have been known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas.
But the timing of equine domestication and the subsequent broad use of horse power has been a matter of contention. An analysis of genome data from 475 ancient horses and 77 modern ones is ...
One model of horse domestication starts with individual foals being kept as pets while the adult horses were slaughtered for meat. Foals are relatively small and easy to handle. Horses behave as herd animals and need companionship to thrive. Both historic and modern data shows that foals can and will bond to humans and other domestic animals to ...
the gallop, which averages 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph), [86] but the world record for a horse galloping over a short, sprint distance is 70.76 kilometres per hour (43.97 mph). [87] Besides these basic gaits, some horses perform a two-beat pace, instead of the trot. [88]
Among horses: Red Hare" Sakarya, One of the two personal horses of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, inspired by the battle which he commanded of the same name [3] Sefton, survivor of the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings in 1982; Streiff, horse of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the battle of Lützen (1632)
Archaeologists in France have uncovered nine “astonishing” graves containing the skeletons of 28 horses that were buried about 2,000 years ago, though their precise cause of death remains a ...
Equus scotti is a true caballine horse that is more closely related to modern horses than to zebras and asses. Equus scotti may be synonymous with Equus lambei , another generally smaller horse known from the Pleistocene of North America, but this is uncertain. [ 3 ]
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