🐎Horse

Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758

馬（学名：Equus ferus caballus），通常指家马，是一种草食性家畜，是野马的亚种，广泛分布于世界各地。目前全球约有5,800万匹马，共計905个品种。現代家馬原产于歐亞大陸中心，源於6000多年前就被人类驯養的歐洲野馬。早期的馬匹馴養遺址於烏克蘭草原、哈薩克中亚草原等地被發現。美洲大陸原生的野馬族群約於公元前兩萬年滅絕，直至15世纪后，歐洲殖民者才將歐亞大陸的家馬引進美洲和未曾產馬的澳洲。马的成功驯化影响了人类的历史进程。牠們帮助人类建设城镇、耕种土地、开拓疆域，曾是人类的主要运输方式之一。在人类历史上象征了胜利、主权、财富、贵族和死亡等。现代马虽然已经对人类的影响不再那么重要，但仍然是解剖学、系谱学和运动科学中的关键模型生物。

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≈ 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

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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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