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The horse is a domesticated odd-toed ungulate that has evolved over 45-55 million years from a small multi-toed ancestor into today's large single-toed animal. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC and domestication was widespread by 3000 BC, though some domesticated horses now live as feral populations. True wild horses are those that were never domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse subspecies.

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Horses

The horse is a domesticated odd-toed ungulate that has evolved over 45-55 million years from a small multi-toed ancestor into today's large single-toed animal. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC and domestication was widespread by 3000 BC, though some domesticated horses now live as feral populations. True wild horses are those that were never domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse subspecies.

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The horse (Equus ferus caballus)[2][3] 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 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.

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