🐎Horse
Кі́нь сві́йський (Equus ferus caballus або Equus caballus) — підвид ссавців виду Кінь дикий роду Кінь (Equus) родини Коневих (Equidae) ряду Конеподібних (Equiformes), або Непарнопалих (Perissodactyla). Поширений на всіх континентах, крім Антарктиди, в більшості країн світу.
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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 ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
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
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- 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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