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    (c) copper, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) dinesh83, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Scott Henderson, all rights reserved

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    (c) Josh Patterson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Amy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Domestic Horse

Equus caballus

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The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging 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 to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are...

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