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horse : a large solid-hoofed herbivorous ungulate mammal (Equus caballus, family Equidae, the horse family) domesticated since prehistoric times and used as a beast of burden, a draft animal, or for riding — Webster See also OneLook

Horse Dictionary (Horses and Horse Information)

Encyclopedia

Horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. 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. — Wikipedia

Horse (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Horse (One Zoom)
Horse (WolframAlpha)

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Mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has also been known as “mastology,” “theriology,” and “therology.” The major branches of mammalogy include natural history, taxonomy and systematics, anatomy and physiology, ethology, ecology, and management. — Wikipedia

Mammalogy (Encyclopædia Britannica)

The Science of Mammalogy (The American Society of Mammalogists)

Horse Health (Horses and Horse Information)

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DDC: 599.665 Horses (Library Thing)
Subject: Horses (Library Thing)

Subject: Horses (Open Library)

LCC: SF 283 Horses (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Horses (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: SF 283 Horses (Library of Congress)
Subject: Horses (Library of Congress)

Subject: Horses (WorldCat)

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All About Horses (Ology, American Museum of Natural History)
Horses (Science Trek)

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Horses (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Horses (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Horses (Science Daily)
Horses (Science News)
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Horses News -- ScienceDaily Equine News. All about horses including the latest in horse cloning, race horse physiology and horse health.

New, exhaustive study probes hidden history of...
on March 30, 2023 at 9:21 pm
Indigenous peoples as far north as Wyoming and Idaho may have begun to care for horses by the first half of the 17th Century, according to a new study by researchers from 15 countries and multiple Native American groups.
The world's first horse riders
on March 3, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Researchers have discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000 years old. The earthen burial mounds belonged to the Yamnaya culture. The Yamnayans had migrated from the Pontic-Caspian steppes to find greener pastures in today's countries of Romania and Bulgaria up to Hungary and Serbia.
Shaping the sport of kings: Key genes linked to...
on December 13, 2022 at 2:47 pm
A critical set of genes linked to successful racehorses has been identified by an international research team. Scientists from Asia, Europe, North America compared the genomes of Thoroughbred, Arabian and Mongolian racehorses to horses bred for other sports and leisure, and were able to pinpoint a set of genes that play a significant role in muscle, metabolism, and neurobiology. These genes were found to be clearly different in racing horses, and were common to all racing breeds compared to […]
Long-term relationship with owner reduces horses'...
on August 25, 2022 at 1:49 pm
A new study shows that horses can be more reluctant in new situations if they have multiple riders, have had several owners or the horse has been with its current owner only for a short period of time. The results of the international research group that studied the interaction between horses and humans also indicate that it takes time to build a good interactive relationship with a horse.
Race performance of thoroughbred horses...
on August 24, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Research supports the belief that the most important factor affecting a thoroughbred's race performance is the quality of its sire, whereas the effect of the age of its broodmare is negligible.

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Yak milk consumption among Mongol Empire elites
on March 31, 2023 at 6:37 pm
For the first time, researchers have pinpointed a date when elite Mongol Empire people were drinking yak milk, according to a study co-led by a University of Michigan researcher.
A horse died on the set of 'The Rings of Power':...
on March 31, 2023 at 4:46 pm
The recent death of a horse on the set of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the latest incident raising questions about how humans use horses for entertainment and sport.
Foal bred by surrogacy highlights lab's expertise
on March 30, 2023 at 6:04 pm
Ellie is an 11-year-old chestnut mare with a fetching white stripe on her face, and she's about as loved as any horse could be.
The untold history of the horse in the American...
on March 30, 2023 at 6:00 pm
The continent of North America is where horses first emerged. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous Peoples and the flagship symbol of the Southwest. An international team uniting 87 scientists across 66 institutions around the world now begins to refine the history of the American horse. This work, which embeds cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research between Western and traditional Indigenous science, is […]
Shod horses exhibit marked improvement in gait...
on March 29, 2023 at 4:42 pm
The right pair of shoes can make all the difference. This is as true for horses as it is for people, according to new research from animal scientists and engineers from UConn.

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