I have loved horses ever since I was a little girl.  I used to work on a horse farm in exchange for lessons.
The horse is one of 2 extant subspecies of equus ferus.
Thats interesting.   What else do you know about horses?
It is an odd toed ungulate animal. It belongs to the Equidae family.
A horse is an odd toed ungulate animal?  I thought horses had hooves, not toes.
Horse
The horse ("Equus ferus caballus") 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 "
Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates).
The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals. They are usually large to very large, and have relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe.
- Family: Equidae (horses etc.)
- Genus: "Equus"
- Wild horse, "Equus ferus" EW
Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Eutheria Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates).
The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth