🐎Horse

Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758

말(馬, horse)은 말목 말과의 동물이다. 학명은 Equus caballus이며, 조상은 지금으로부터 4,500-5,500만 년 전에 존재했던 에오히푸스이다. 가축으로 길들여진 이래로 사람들과 친숙하게 지내온 동물 중 하나로 사람을 위해 많이 봉사해 왔다. 어린 말은 망아지라고 부른다. 프랑스에서는 신석기 시대부터 등장했다. 마콩 근처의 솔뤼트레에서 발견된, 일 헥타르 이상이나 되는 말 무덤에서 증거를 찾을 수 있다.

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vs you

≈ 4.8× your weight

Conservation status

Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Equus ferus caballus yet.

Key measurements

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

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Everything we know about the Horse

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

300 kg

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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height

1.61 m1.55–1.67 m · typical range

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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 speed

64 km/h

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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 lifespan

57 years

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Gestation

337 days

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