Helen Clark
#7 Underneath the hoof of a horse, you will see ‘frog’.
It is nothing but an area of the hoof that has a triangular shape.
#8 Horses are incapable of breathing through their mouths.
They can breathe only through their nostrils. This anatomy is known as ‘obligate nasal breathers’.
#9 Horses which have pink skin can actually get sunburns!
#10 There is something called zorse, and then there is a zony, and finally, there is a zonky.
Together these are called zebroids.
- Zorse is a cross between zebra and horse.
- Zony is a cross between zebra and pony.
- Zonky is a cross between zebra and donkey.
#11 One of the fun horse facts is that there are 16 muscles in each ear of a horse.
This allows the horse to rotate its ears to 180 degrees.
#12 Horses are very social animals.
