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Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses. Furthermore, modern breeding management and technologies can increase the rate ...
A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. [1] In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old.
Horses gain fame for many reasons: their beauty, speed, athletic ability, bravery, or, in the case of one horse – their unbelievably large size! The largest horse ever recorded was a whopping 85 ...
The Coolidge effect is a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female of reproductive availability is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners.
A few horse owners delay gelding a horse on the grounds that the testosterone gained from being allowed to reach sexual maturity will make him larger. However, recent studies have shown that this is not so: any apparent muscle mass gained solely from the presence of hormones will be lost over time after the horse is gelded, and in the meantime ...
Both women and men are capable of performing extraordinary feats, but there are some things the females of our species do better. Here are 7 of them, according to science. Number 7. Seeing colors ...
Gorilla Great reed warbler. When two animals mate, they both share an interest in the success of the offspring, though often to different extremes. Unless the male and female are perfectly monogamous, meaning that they mate for life and take no other partners, even after the original mate's death, the amount of parental care will vary. [7]
And 19 years after that, in 2001, Ian Thorpe was 4.24 seconds faster than Gaines had been. By 2009, in the supersuit’s last hurrah, the men’s 200 free world record dropped 10.78 seconds lower ...