🐎Wild horse
The wild horse is a species of the genus Equus, which includes as subspecies the modern domesticated horse as well as the endangered Przewalski's horse. The European wild horse, also known as the tarpan, that went extinct in the late 19th or early 20th century has previously been treated as the nominate subspecies of wild horse, Equus ferus ferus, but more recent studies have cast doubt on whether tarpans were truly wild or if they actually were feral horses or hybrids.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 250 kg
- Body length
- 2.8 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 62 years
Everything we know about the Wild horse
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass250 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.8 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass693 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan62 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length7.79 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation338 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range16 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l250 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 Wild horse yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPerissodactyla
- ›familyEquidae
- ›genusEquus
- ›speciesEquus ferus
- 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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