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Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, [6] [7] relatively few (apart from humans, horses, some primates and some bovidae) produce sweat in order to cool down. [8] In horses, such cooling sweat is created by apocrine glands [9] and contains a wetting agent, the protein latherin which transfers from the skin to the surface of ...
Modern authorities believe that blood-sucking parasites caused sweat to mix with blood when the horses were worked. Modern researchers, Mair notes, have come up with two different ideas [for the ancient Chinese references to the "Blood-sweating" horses of Ferghana]. The first suggests that small subcutaneous blood vessels burst as the horses ...
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) [2] [3] 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, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.
An adult horse has an average rate of respiration at rest of 12 to 24 breaths per minute. [3] Young foals have higher resting respiratory rates than adult horses, usually 36 to 40 breaths per minute. [3] Heat and humidity can raise the respiration rate considerably, especially if the horse has a dark coat and is in the sun.
Adai horses are typically raised in herds, known as taboons, [4] and are well adapted to the environmental conditions of the deserts of southern Kazakhstan. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Their ability to withstand extreme breeding conditions and their overall endurance are recognized, [ 15 ] though they are less resilient than the Kazakh and Jabe breeds.
Equidae (commonly known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. The family evolved more than 50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch, from a small, multi-toed ungulate into larger, single-toed animals.
The Tianma is a flying horse that was sometimes depicted with chimerical features such as dragon scales and was at times attributed the ability to sweat blood, possibly inspired by the parasite Parafilaria multipapillosa, [1] which infected the highly sought-after Ferghana horse (大宛馬), sometimes conflated with Tianma.
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