HORSE FACTS!
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- When horses sleep,they can sleep lying down and standing up.
- After birth, the foals can run. To escape possible predators.
- Domestic horses have a lifespan of around 25 years.
- Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
- Horses have been domesticated for over 5000 years.
- Horses are herbivores, also known as plant eaters.
- Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.
- Because horse’s eyes are on the side of their head they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time.
- Horses can gallop around 27 mph; The fastest horse recorded speed was 55 mph
- Estimates suggest that there are around 60 million horses in the world, scientists believe that horses have evolved over the past 50 million years from much smaller creatures.
- A male horse is called a stallion, or gelding (who is fixed).
- A female horse is called a mare.
- A young male horse is called a colt.
- A young female horse is called a filly.
- Ponies are small horses.
reference by "Animal facts", by science kids fun science and technology for kids. http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/horse.html