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Horse
Equus caballus
Farm Animal
least concern
Herbivore
Horses are strong, graceful animals that can run super fast! They neigh to say hello and have been helping humans for thousands of years.
Habitat
Farms and grasslands worldwide
Fun Facts
- •Horses can sleep standing up!
- •A horse can run within hours after being born.
- •Horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal.
- •Horses can't breathe through their mouths - only through their noses!
Sounds
Horse neighing sound
call
Source: animal-sounds.org
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Equidae
- genus
- Equus
- species
- caballus
Tags
farm
fast
herbivore
riding