{"id":805,"date":"2018-08-22T04:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/science\/?p=805"},"modified":"2018-08-22T04:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:15:59","slug":"horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/horse\/","title":{"rendered":"horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Horses in the fields at Fossil Motel and RV Park, Fossil, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Horses<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Taxonomy<\/i><\/b>: Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Perissodactyla; Family: Equidae; Genus: Equus; Species: ferus; Subspecies: ferus caballus. Equus ferus<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horses are the Equus ferus and have two extant subspecies. The horse is a large ungulate mammal that is odd-toed, consistent with a well-developed sense of balance and strong fight-or-flight response. They originally evolved from a small multi-toed prehistoric dinosaur known as the Eohippus – a small multi-toed creature. They were first domesticated about 4000 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent and throughout the known world by 3000 B.C.E. The sub-species “caballus” are essentially all domesticated though there are some feral horses living in the wild, but are not true wild horses such as the Przewalski’s horse – the only true remaining wild horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. The female is called a mare and carries young within the womb for 11 months giving birth to a foal (young horse) and can stand\/run shortly following birth. They are usually fully developed by age 5 and live to 25 or 30 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestication:<\/b> Domestication started around 4000 B.C.E. with widespread occurrence by 3000. They are often saddled or harnessed by ages 2 and 4. They are fully developed by age 5. They are classified into three categories based on temperament: “hot blood” – spirited with speed and endurance; “cold blood” like draft horses and ponies often slow but capable of heavy work; and “warm blood” developed as a cross-breed between the “hot” and “cold” blood usually specified for riding. There are over 300 different breeds today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human adaptation<\/b>
Horses are used by humans for sport, transportation, agriculture, entertainment, and therapy. Originally used in warfare they evolved into different uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uses:<\/b>
Recreation, sport, warfare, transportation, entertainment, therapy, and food. The meat, milk, hide, hair, bone, and urine are used. Urine from pregnant mares is used for pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horses Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Perissodactyla; Family: Equidae; Genus: Equus; Species: ferus; Subspecies: ferus caballus. Equus ferus Horses are the Equus ferus and have two extant subspecies. The horse is a large ungulate mammal that is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,27,43],"tags":[535,597,598,685,850,851,1000,1232,1233],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-fauna","category-mammalia","tag-domesticated-animals","tag-eohippus","tag-equus-ferus","tag-foal","tag-horse","tag-horses","tag-mare","tag-ponies","tag-pony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}