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Horses work, Telegraph works, Gas lamps work, etc.
by geraneum · Sep 13, 2026
>I think we can assume that apples and cherries are OK to eat. Apple pips are fine and why on earth would you want to crunch through a cherry stone. Black cherries (prunus serot…
by joecool1029 · Sep 13, 2026
so.... horses have memory and their memory guides their behavior. Yep.
by SA9G · Sep 12, 2026
I own 3 horses. 3 mares actually. The first one, who’s 11 and been with me for 8 years now, has incredible communication. She’s always been pretty close to humans but for the pa…
by hycaria · Sep 12, 2026
> A new study reveals that horse personality is not only a matter of genetics, age, or breed but also systematically linked to how horses are housed, ridden, and cared for, and…
by mmooss · Sep 12, 2026
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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; and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 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. Read more on Wikipedia