Horses are amazing

Photo Credit:GaborfromHungary

Photo Credit:GaborfromHungary

My favorite animal is a horse. I think horses are so beautiful and amazing. I like black horses and white horses. I was read a horse book and it said that horses didn’t look like they do today they looked like small foxes with long necks. They had toed feet and ate leaves and later on they developed  hooves and they started eating grass instead of leaves. The book says horses are apart of a group called “Equus” it includes zebras and donkeys.Horses are mammals and herbivores. 

Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton. Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal. Horses can gallop at 44 kph.horses can sleep standing or lying down. A male horse is called a stallion. A female horse is called a mare. A young male horse is called a colt. A young female horse is called a filly.Their predators are wolves and mountain lions. Their narrow faces and bodies reduce wind resistance and help horses maintain high speeds when they gallop.A horses long neck helps it eat grass. A horses tail helps it swat pesky flies.

Horses can lock their rear legs in place which allows them to sleep while standing. New born baby horses are called foals.Horses sometimes make rumbling noises called nickers which is a friendly hello. Horses make a roar when their mad. A horses leader system works with a male horse protecting the herd and a female horse to make the herds’s decisions. Horses use body language to tell how another horse is feeling.

Photo Credit:SDRandCo

Photo Credit:SDRandCo

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/horse/

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/horse.html

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