{"id":184208,"date":"2022-07-18T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:06:48","slug":"do-horses-really-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do horses really exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/#Do_horses_really_exist\" title=\"Do horses really exist?\">Do horses really exist?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/#What_does_horses_look_like_in_real_life\" title=\"What does horses look like in real life?\">What does horses look like in real life?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/#Is_the_only_true_wild_horse_alive_today\" title=\"Is the only true wild horse alive today?\">Is the only true wild horse alive today?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-horses-really-exist\/#Are_there_true_wild_horses_in_America\" title=\"Are there true wild horses in America?\">Are there true wild horses in America?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_horses_really_exist\"><\/span>Do horses really exist?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, odd-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. 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.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_does_horses_look_like_in_real_life\"><\/span>What does horses look like in real life?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Horses have <b>oval-shaped hooves, long tails, short hair, long slender legs, muscular and deep torso build, long thick necks, and large elongated heads. The mane is a region of coarse hairs, which extends along the dorsal side of the neck in both domestic and wild species.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_the_only_true_wild_horse_alive_today\"><\/span>Is the only true wild horse alive today?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Przewalski&#8217;s horses are the only wild horses left in the world. The wild horses that abound in Australia and North America&#8217;s western plains and East Coast barrier islands are actually feral domestic horses that escaped from ranches and farms and returned to the wild.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_there_true_wild_horses_in_America\"><\/span>Are there true wild horses in America?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Today, <b>86,000 free-roaming horses live on nearly 28 million acres of public lands across 10 western U.S. states, and 55,000 taken off the land now live in government-run quarters. With no natural predators, their numbers are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, according to the bureau.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Do horses really exist?What does horses look like in real life?Is the only true wild horse alive today?Are there true wild horses in America? Do horses really exist? The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, odd-toed, hoofed mammal. 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