Horse Facts: 15 Fun Facts about Horses

April 19, 2021 by Łukasz

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Check out these fun horse facts and enjoy learning a wide range of interesting information about horses. How many of these did you already know?

• Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.
• Horses can run shortly after birth.
• Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
• Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.
• Because horse’s eyes are on the side of their head they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time
• Horses gallop at around 27 mph
• The fastest recorded sprinting speed of a horse was 55 mph
• When horses look like they’re laughing, they’re actually engaging in a special nose-enhancing technique known as “flehmen,” to determine whether a smell is good or bad
• Horse hooves are made from the same protein that comprises human hair and fingernails
• Horses use their ears, eyes and nostrils to express their mood. They also communicate their feelings through facial expressions
• A horse can see better at night than a human. However, it takes a horse's eyes longer to adjust from light to dark and from dark to light than a human's
• Horses with pink skin can get a sunburn
• You can tell if a horse is cold by feeling behind their ears. If that area is cold, so is the horse
• Horses are social animals and will get lonely if kept alone, and they will mourn the passing of a companion
• Horse’s ears have the ability to rotate 180 degrees

Can you add any more horse facts to the list?

Source: gibsonhorses.com

Horses

April 20, 2021 by Łukasz

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Learn More About Horses.

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated odd-toed ungulate 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. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. 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, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. 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.

Source: wikipedia