Horses and Donkeys

Equine

• Horses can’t breathe through their mouth

• Horses can sleep standing up

• Horses have excellent hearing

• Horses have a nearly 360-degree field of vision

• Horses have lightning fast reflexes

• Foals can walk and run within a few hours after birth

• Horses are highly intelligent animals

• There are many colours and patterns of horses

• The earliest ancestor of the horse is estimated to have lived 55 million years ago

• Horses are very social animals