HORSES :
When you talk about horses, your mind immediatly goes to horse riding. Although they are very big animals, they have a very loving nature to them.
A male horse is called a stallion and a female is called a mare. The strongest male of the group will lead and protect the group of horses. A herd of horses will never sleep all at the same time, at least one will stay awake to look out for the rest of the herd. In the wild a horse can live up to 65 years of age, a tame horse on the other hand can live up to 25 years to 30 years.
Horses are often seen on pictures 'laughing' or 'smiling', this actually happens when a foreign smell is in the air and they don't know what it is. You can tell a horses age by looking at their teeth. Male and female horses have different number of teeth. Males have 44, while females have 36-40.
Unlike humans, horses have a functioning appendix that digests leaves, leading some scientist to believe that the human appendix may have had a similar function.
Arab horses are one of the strongest endurance runners in the animal kingdom and are capable of running over 100 miles (160 km) without rest.
The Arabian horse is not just beautiful, but their skeletal structure differs from other horses. Its ribs are wider, stronger, and deeper than other horses. They also have fewer lumbar bones and tail vertebrae.