-Horses do not have a gall bladder.
-When a domesticated horse is released in the wild they shed all
traces of domestication rapidly.
-In the wild a foal will suckle until they are one year old, in
some conditions this can be longer.
-Stallions will fight over females but generally not over
territory.
-Horses have better memories than elephants.
-Horses have the largest eyes of any land animal.
-Horses are not color-blind.
-At one time people thought that horses were colorblind. Although
it is more difficult for them to see purples and violets, they have less
trouble with yellows and greens.
-Adult male horses generally have 40 teeth and females 36
-The horse has binocular vision, but can also see different things
in each eye. This is why you need to show your horses the spooky things in both
eyes so the brain can get the message that it's not spooky.
-The measurement 'hand' is 4 inches because that was considered to
be the average width across a mans knuckles.
-In the picture to the left the horse is doing what is called flehmen. This is seem more in males
than females, especially stallions. Flehmen is known to be a way to direct
scents in the air to specialized olfactory glands at the end of the nasal
passage.
-In Australia there were no horses until 1788
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