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One of the most popular animals on Earth have existed for more than 50 million years,
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originating in North America and then spreading to Asia and Europe. It is the horse. Horses
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are ungulates which are mammals with hooves. They have long tails, muscular torsos, long Difference Between
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Most have been domesticated and are found all over the world. At one time, though, about
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10,000 years ago, the horses in North America became extinct but were re-introduced by Literature
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Antarctica. The Abyssinian horse is found in Ethiopia, Deliboz is from Georgia and Armenia, Online Calculators
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Budyonny comes from Russia, the Colorado Rangerbred comes from the Colorado plains, and
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of course, the Egyptian is from Egypt. Contrary to popular belief, mustangs are not wild
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horses but are descendants of Spanish horses that are called Iberian horses.
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There are more than 400 breeds of horses and most can be as tall as 69 inches from hoof
to shoulder and weigh more than 2,200 pounds. The smallest breeds of horses are as small as
30 inches from hoof to shoulder and weigh only about 120 pounds. Horses have live births
after around 11 months of gestation, but a baby horse is not called a pony, but a foal.

Ponies, on the other hand, are smaller adult horses that are shorter than 56 inches from
hoof to shoulder and become mature after 3 to 5 years. The Faeroes Pony Horse is found on
the Faeroe Islands in the North Atlantic. It is one of the oldest breeds of horses. This breed is
very rare, to the point of almost being extinct.

Horses are very social animals and live in groups called herds. In the wild, the herds
consist of about three to 20 animals and are led by a mature male called a stallion. Male
foals are driven away from the herd by the stallion, and the young foals ban together in a
herd until they find a herd of females they can lead. Some of the herd is also made up of
females and their young.

The diet of horses is vegetarian as they are herbivores and mostly eat grass; however,
domesticated horses are fed bran, oats, barley, and hay. A horse may eat approximately 1 to
2 percent of its body weight in grass and hay every day. Domesticated horses are given blocks
of salt and mineral blocks to lick to supplement the nutrition the horses normally get from
their other food. A horse must graze throughout the day to get enough food because they
have a very small stomach.

All horses have four speeds which are called gaits. They can walk at a slow speed, trot at a
little faster speed, canter which is faster than a trot, or gallop at their fastest speed or gait. In
addition, horses have defined facial expressions such as an inner brow raise indicating a
negative emotional situation as an expression of sadness or fear, an upper lip raise as another
expression of fear and stress, and a lip corner puller as a gesture of submission.

Horses are popular animals and have existed for over 50 million years and will continue to
be domesticated and used by many people throughout the world for a wide variety of
purposes.

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1) Which of the following best describes and ungulate?

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A: A mammal with webbed feet

B: A mammal with hooves

C: A mammal with short hair

D: A mammal with four legs

2) Which of the following is a baby horse?

A: Pony

B: Mustang

C: Foal

D: Stallion

3) Which of the following is a small adult horse?

A: Pony

B: Mustang

C: Foal

D: Stallion

4) Which of the following is the diet of a horse?

A: Herbivorous

B: Carnivorous

C: Omnivorous

D: None of the above

5) Which of the following shows the speeds of a horse in order from slowest to fastest?

A: Walk, canter, trot, gallop

B: Walk, trot, canter, gallop

C: Gallop, trot, walk, canter

D: Trot, canter, walk, gallop

6) Horses are found on every continent of the world except which of the following?

A: Africa

B: Australia

C: Asia

D: Antarctica

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