Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammalbelonging 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 caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski’s horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior,More info:wiki
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Wild horses are supposed to be in the wild west, scampering up and down mountainsides or galloping across the desert, right? That’s what most of us have always thought. But as support for the preservation of feral horses in the western rangeland of the United States has grown, so has the awareness and appreciation of large and small herds of feral horses around the world.
Feral horses are those who live in the wild but are descended from domestic horses. The only true “wild” horses live in Mongolia.
When The Humane Society of the United States announced it was heading to a place called “Vieques” (pronounced “vee-AAAY-kez”) to help wild horses there, many followers just scratched their heads.
Feral horses show up in unusual places. They live on the remote Canadian sandbar known as Sable Island, off Nova Scotia. They live in the Balkan nations of eastern Europe, the south of France, and the mountains of Spain. You’ll find the largest concentration of free-roaming horses thriving in the extreme wilderness of Australia’s Outback. Horse herds live in the brutal desert of Namibia in Africa.
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A Woodinville stable is once again under quarantine after another horse fell ill with a potentially deadly virus.
One case of equine herpes virus 1 (EHV) was reported on April 6 at Gold Creek Equestrian Facility — just a few miles outside of Bothell — where seven horses were euthanized last December due to the same disease. Most horses are infected with EHV as foals, which then lies dormant unless it is activated by stressors. When this happens, it becomes active, or neurotropic, and infects. Horses in this stage become highly contagious and can pass the virus in its active form to other horses.
“Be real careful right now in that neck of the woods, or even the whole state of Washington,” said Dr. Thomas Gilliom, a state field veterinarian.
The Eastside has a large equestrian community centered around Bridle Trails State Park, located between Bellevue, Redmond and Kirkland. Dana Kapela with Overlake Farms in Bellevue said in an email they are taking the relapse at Gold Creek seriously and are working with other farms in the area to ensure it does not spread to additional stables.
Gilliom said the infected horse at Gold Creek could have been exposed to the virus from a new source, but it is likely the horse had a latent form of the virus that became neurotropic.
#7 CSU bids to help federal officials’ controversial wild horse birth-control roundup,More info:coloradoan
Researchers at Colorado State University’s veterinary school plan to help the federal Bureau of Land Management sterilize wild horses with a rarely used procedure that involves removing the mares’ ovaries.
The proposal, now in a 30-day public comment period, is kicking up a passionate protest from wild-horse advocates who say the surgery is barbaric, will traumatize the mares and could lead to infection and excessive bleeding.
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