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horse

Domesticated four-footed mammal from the equine family

Species / taxontaxon organisms known by a particular common name domesticated animalQ726

Also known as nag · horses

Scientific name: Equus ferus caballus
Rank: subspecies

Overview

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The horse 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, originally in North America. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE in Central Asia, primarily associated with the Botai culture; their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. However, contemporary genetic evidence indicates that modern domesticated breeds do not descend from this lineage, instead pointing to the Western Eurasian steppes in the lower Volga-Don region as the homeland of modern domestic horses. The modern horse breed replaced the local populations through their rapid expansion across Eurasia from 2000 BCE. 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, which are horses that have never been domesticated. 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.

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189 statements · 13% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Unicode character: 🐎
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Gait: horse gait
Properties for this type: sex or gender has characteristic: mandatory · autosuggest value: female organism
image has characteristic: recommended
date of birth
date of death
color has characteristic: recommended
height
native label
place of death
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Infochevaux ID
Horsetelex ID
Sporthorse data ID
Allbreedpedigree ID
animal breed
father
mother
Has use: equestrianism
draft animal
chariot(since -2000)
horse-drawn vehicle
This taxon is source of: horsehair
horse meat
horse manure
horse leather
equine chorionic gonadotropin
mare milk
Heart rate: 38 beats per minute applies to part: rest
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1.“Physiologie du cheval”cliniqueveterinairedespres.fr/article-veterinaire-34-5-physiologie-du-chevalRetrieved 2016-12-23
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34 beats per minute applies to part: rest
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1.Stated in Resting Heart RatesRetrieved 2016-12-23
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46.5 beats per minute applies to part: rest
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1.“Cardiovascular System: The Heart and Vessels of Mammals, Birds, Fish and Amphibians”peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2160&aid=2951Retrieved 2016-12-23
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Members / parts: horse hoof
horsetail
back
horse teeth
equine vision
horse ear
stallion
mare
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horse head
horsehair
fur
Uses: horseshoe
Subclass of: Equus ferus
domesticated mammal(since -2500) statement is subject of: domestication of the horse · sourcing circumstances: circa
milk yielding animal statement is subject of: mare milk
animal
Different from: Kůň
Produced sound: neigh audio: Wiehern.ogg
Used by: equestrian
Said to be the same as: Equus ferus caballus
Studied by: hippology
Depicted by: horses in art
Horse + Rider + Apartment house
Horses Hall of Palazzo del Te
Has effect: allergy to horses
Population: 58.3M(2013)
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Sources
1.Stated in Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding
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Taxon common name: caballu
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1.sabencia.net/nomenclator.php
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horse lexeme sense: L1123-S1
omid lexeme sense: L621131-S1
Hauspferd
лошадь lexeme sense: L1418261-S1
zaldi lexeme sense: L61811-S1
Permanent duplicated item: Q124130190
Has characteristic: impulsion
Homonymous taxon: Equus ferus caballus
Temporal range start: Piacenzian

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