🐎Horse
Hesten (Equus ferus caballus), også kaldet tamhesten, er et vidt udbredt husdyr, med talrige racer. Tamhesten er den domesticerede form af vildhesten (Equus ferus), der sammen med æsler og zebraer udgør hestefamilien i ordenen af uparrettåede hovdyr. I Danmark findes i dag omkring 170.000 heste, der mest anvendes som sports- og hobbydyr. Hesten blev tæmmet af mennesket for henved 6.000 år siden. Tidligere har den været meget anvendt som transportmiddel og trækkraft. I Danmark var der fx i 1914 knap 600.000 heste, og Danmark var det land, næst efter Island, der havde forholdsvis flest heste. Nogle tamheste er fritlevende, fx Gotlandsrusser på Gotland. Herudover findes vilde tamheste – efterkommere af undslupne tamheste, fx mustangerne i Nordamerika og Camarqueheste i Sydfrankrig.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Equus ferus caballus yet.
- Body mass
- 300 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- 1.61 m
- Top speed
- 64 km/h
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 57 years
Everything we know about the Horse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass300 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Shoulder height1.61 m1.55–1.67 m · typical rangeDetails ↓Hide ↑
Height at the withers, riding horses. Overall domestic range spans 0.86-1.67+ m across breeds. NOTE: the Mammalian Species horse account's 120-146 cm is Przewalski's horse, not the domestic horse.
Source: Masko et al. 2022, Animals 12(7):931 · see citation
Top speed64 km/hDetails ↓Hide ↑
Sprint over a short distance, not a sustained pace. Compilations give 63.97 and 68.04 km/h. The fastest officially timed racehorse is 70.35 km/h over two furlongs (Winning Brew, Penn National, 2008) -- a record, not a typical animal. Hirt's 88 km/h is speedofanimals.com.
Source: Christiansen 2002, Zool J Linn Soc 136:685 and Bejan & Marden 2006, J Exp Biol 209:238; compiled in Hirt et al. 2017, Nat Ecol Evol 1:1116, Supplementary Data · see citation
Maximum lifespan57 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation337 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Volume l300 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Horse yet: body length, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPerissodactyla
- ›familyEquidae
- ›genusEquus
- ›speciesEquus caballus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- genusEquus
- subgenusEquus subgenus Equus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- familyEquidae
- genusEquus
- subgenusEquus subgenus Equus
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