30 Fascinating Facts About Horses!

30 Fascinating Facts About Horses

Horses are beautiful creatures to look at, and thousands of fanatics enjoy riding them or showing them every year.

Here are some important (and some very interesting!) facts you might like to know about horses.

Horses are called different names depending on their gender.

A male horse is called a stallion and a female horse is a mare. A male horse which has been castrated is known as a gelding.

Baby horses even have different names!

Young horses have different names — a young male is called a colt and the young females are fillies.

New-born horses can walk shortly after birth.

Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.

There are fewer bones in a horse than in humans.

It’s only one bone less, but in total, there are 205 bones in the skeleton of a horse.

The oldest horse lived over twice as long than he was supposed to.

Horses which have been tamed usually live to be around 25 years old.

However, the oldest domestic horse on record was Old Billy, who died at the age of 62.

Horses can sleep standing up or lying down.

Many people think that when a horse is lying down that means it’s sick.

However, these creatures can sleep either standing up or lying down.

Horses have a lookout…

A group of horses will not go to sleep at the same time — at least one of them will stay awake to watch out for the others.

Horses don’t smile to show happiness.

Horses are often seen in photographs “laughing” or “smiling”, but this movement is actually to help them smell better.

Their diet is plant-based.

Horses only eat plants, making them herbivores.

The fastest horse ran over double the usual speed!

For a regular horse, their top speed is approximately 27 miles per hour, although the fastest horse ever recorded could reach 55 miles per hour!

There’s no need to worry about horse population…

There are an estimated 60 million horses in the world, combining wild and domesticated horses.

Horses have exceptional vision!

The eyes of a horse are bigger than those of any other land mammal, and the fact they are located on the side of their heads means they can see almost 360 degrees.

Horses can’t see in full-color.

Experts used to believe that horses were completely color-blind, although this has now been disproven.

They can, however, see certain colors a lot clearer than others.

Horses float when they run.

Well, sort of! When a horse gallops, all four hooves are off the ground at one point.

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