Horse show i just hold the horse and hand over the money Shirt

We’re so used to seeing horses, we often forget just what a bunch of weirdos they are. Let’s start with their feet: can you name another animal with only one hoof? If you said cow, sheep or goat, then you need to take a closer look next time you’re on the farm, because they all have two hooves per foot. Deer – likewise. The next curiousquestion: how did such a powerful animal come to have an upstart ape lead it around by the mouth, and sit on it?The evolutionary history of horses is relatively well understood, but there are still some gaps in our knowledge, and new discoveries continue to be made. So where do these strange animals come from, and how did we end up with the domesticated breeds so familiar to us todayTalking about toe-numbers is not arbitrary. Horses belong to a group called perissodactyls, or odd-toed ungulates. This group includes horses, tapirs, rhinos and a wealth of extinct animals such as the clawed, long-forelimbed chalicotheres and the rhino-like brontotheres. They contrast with even-toed ungulates, or cetartiodactyls. This group include hippos, deer, giraffes, alpacas and most common farm animals such as pigs, sheep and cows. Also included are the cetaceans: the whales and dolphins. Although they may have shed their toes on their journey to a streamlined aquatic life, we know from genetics and the shape of their skeletons that they share an ancestor with the rest of the even-toed ungulates. Cetartiodactyls are by far the most populous of the two ungulate groups today, but it wasn’t always so.

Horse show i just hold the horse and hand over the money Shirt

We’re so used to seeing horses, we often forget just what a bunch of weirdos they are. Let’s start with their feet: can you name another animal with only one hoof? If you said cow, sheep or goat, then you need to take a closer look next time you’re on the farm, because they all have two hooves per foot. Deer – likewise. The next curiousquestion: how did such a powerful animal come to have an upstart ape lead it around by the mouth, and sit on it?The evolutionary history of horses is relatively well understood, but there are still some gaps in our knowledge, and new discoveries continue to be made. So where do these strange animals come from, and how did we end up with the domesticated breeds so familiar to us todayTalking about toe-numbers is not arbitrary. Horses belong to a group called perissodactyls, or odd-toed ungulates. This group includes horses, tapirs, rhinos and a wealth of extinct animals such as the clawed, long-forelimbed chalicotheres and the rhino-like brontotheres. They contrast with even-toed ungulates, or cetartiodactyls. This group include hippos, deer, giraffes, alpacas and most common farm animals such as pigs, sheep and cows. Also included are the cetaceans: the whales and dolphins. Although they may have shed their toes on their journey to a streamlined aquatic life, we know from genetics and the shape of their skeletons that they share an ancestor with the rest of the even-toed ungulates. Cetartiodactyls are by far the most populous of the two ungulate groups today, but it wasn’t always so.