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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 feral horse is a free-roaming horse of domesticated stock. As such, a feral horse is not a wild animal in the sense of an animal without domesticated ancestors. However, some populations of feral horses are managed as wildlife, and these horses often are popularly called "wild" horses. Feral horses are descended from domestic horses that ...
The horse can associate an emotional valence (a reputation) with a human based on its own experiences, as well as its observations of interactions between an experimenter and another horse. [ S 75 ] [ S 76 ] Lansade discusses this ability, noting that many horses respond to the arrival of a veterinarian, even one they have never encountered before.
The old English proverb “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” has been used since the 16th century to describe the difficulty of getting someone to act in their own ...
Horses can, however, cover vast distances to find water and the high fibrous grasses they thrive on; [140] they may range nine times as far from water sources as cattle, traveling as much as 55 kilometres (34 mi) [141] to 80 kilometres (50 mi) from a water source. [142] This means they can reach grazing land that cattle cannot access. [143]
Horses most often need to be encouraged or trained to swim, but will soon learn that they have a natural affinity for it. In several beachside areas, in fact, swimming with horses or renting ...
Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
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