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By Christopher Clement
Geographic Range
Due to the domestication of Equus caballus, and its widespread distribution following domestication, the natural geographic range is typically considered the distribution in the Late Glacial period, 9,500-15,000 years ago. During this time, horses were widespread. Wild horse populations existed in the northern tip of Africa adjacent to the Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean Seas, across Europe excluding the most northern regions where the Scandinavian countries currently exist, and as far east in the Palearctic region as China and Mongolia. They extended throughout the northern Palearctic, across Beringia into the Yukon, and as far south in North America as Mexico, as far east as the Mississippi River, and as far west as the Pacific Ocean coastline. It is believed that the wild horses in North America went extinct 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Domestic horses were then introduced into North America upon European colonization.
Horses are adaptable and occupy a wide variety of habitats under domestication. Preferred habitats are cool, temperate grasslands, steppes, and savannahs, but they also occupy semi-deserts, swamps, marshes, and woodlands.
Physical Description
Horses are ungulates with an unguligrade foot posture, single-digit oval-shaped hooves, long tails, short hair, long slender legs, muscular and deep torso build, long thick necks, and large elongated heads. The mane is a region of coarse hairs, which extends along the dorsal side of the neck in both domestic and wild species. However, wild horses have a mane with short hairs that remain upright while domestic horses have longer mane hairs that do not remain upright. A mid-dorsal stripe, a dark stripe that extends from the mane to the tail, is sometimes present, especially in wild types. The teeth are specialized for grazing, with hypsodont cheekteeth. The dental formula is 3/3, 0-1/0-1, 3-4/3-4, and 3/3. Newborn horses have curly hairs and a finer mane than adults before molting and growing their winter coat. Winter coats start developing in September and October, are fully grown by December. They start shedding in the summer over a period of 56 days for adults or 75 days for newborns. Winter coats are typically thicker and the top of the tail usually develops a region of short hairs, forming a tuft.
Domestication of horses has led to wide variation in the characteristics of breeds of horses. Coats vary in color, from white to black and including reds, browns, and yellows, as well as a wide variety of patterns, such as spots and pinto patterns. Size can vary depending on the breed and its intended use, but can range from 227 to 900 kg in mass and 0.9 to 1.7 meters in height, with potential outliers. Leg length, head length, body-build, fur color, metabolism, etc, varies across breeds of domestic horses. Despite the great variation in physical features within horses, they can generally be distinguished from other , by having longer manes and tails and generally a lack of zebra-type stripes.
homoiothermic
sexes alike
Reproduction
The horse mating system is similar to that of other , which is a polygynous mating system. Males typically herd females during the mating season and defend them against other males, who may be trying to mate with the females. Males do not typically herd and mate with any of his daughters or any females that grew up with him in the same herd. Males fight with other males through kicking and biting, losers submit and retreat. This process is very energy intensive and similar to the rut seen in . Hierarchy in herds is influences by reproductive status
and age, with females and their newborn young getting first access to resources, followed by juveniles and non-reproductive females. Alpha males dominate access to resources.
Males can reproduce year-round but are most active from April to June. Females are polyestrous during the breeding season and go into an estrous period on average every 21 days, each lasting an average of 6.5 days. Females have spontaneous ovulation one to two days before the estrous period is over, which is when they are most fertile. In autumn, females no longer go through estrous periods until nearing the next breeding season. Average gestation period is 335 days, but ranges from 287 to 419 days. This broad gestation range means that birth can be in either spring or autumn of the next year. If the foal is not born by the time in which the mare would go into estrous during the breeding season, then she cannot participate that year. Usually only one foal is produced annually, and it is rare to see twin foals. In domestic horses, only 14% of twin foals survive two weeks, and either one or both twins are born underdeveloped.
Births occur at night and in a quiet location. Wild horse foals are usually born at a mass of 25 to 30 kg, but the average birth weight of domesticated foals is 40 kg. Foals are born precocial and well-developed, usually being able to stand within an hour of birth and walk within four to five hours to follow their mother. When the mother returns to the herd, she goes through postpartum estrus for usually seven to nine days, which is significantly less than regular estrus periods. In domesticated horses who do not have a herd, postpartum estrus usually happens five to twelve days after giving birth. Foals are able to eat solid food within a week of being born. For their first month, the young stay close to their mother and nurse for brief and frequent periods before their second month, when they start to forage on their own. When they start to forage independently, they begin the weaning process which could take up to two years for wild foals. In domesticated horses, foals are often weaned between four and six months old.
Foal weight doubles every week for four weeks, then gradually declines as they reach maturity. It takes females four to five years, and males six to seven years, to reach full reproductive maturity. Although females first go into estrus at either 11 or 12 months, they are not usually fertile until their second year. Even then, females have difficulty developing the fetus of a foal and giving birth, without severe health complications to herself or the foal, until they are four years of age.
gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
post-partum estrous
Foals are precocial at birth and able to walk on their own shortly after birth, but still need parental assistance. Although they are precocial, they rely heavily on their mother for protection against predators and food until they begin to forage on their own. Being recently born, foals get access to food resources second to the alpha male of the herd. As they mature into juveniles, they eventually get access to food after recently born foals, but still before single and non-reproductive females. Although young primarily learn by observation of their mother in the first couple months, the herd also provides a learning environment and protection against predators. Sometimes, females will nip their young for discipline as well. Herd hierarchy is also taught through kicking, biting, vocalization, and facial gestures between individuals for communication. Although young are precocial and grow relatively quickly, they do rely on the protection, group care, and learning experiences offered by the herd on their mother for development in wild horses. Studies show that feral horses are no longer dependent on their natal herd and tend to disperse to other herds in their 2nd or 3rd year of age. Gender is not a factor in the age at which hoses disperse from their natal herd. Domesticated foals are usually separated from their mother either during or immediately after the weaning process is complete.
pre-fertilization
provisioning
protecting
pre-hatching/birth
provisioning
protecting
pre-weaning/fledging
provisioning
protecting
pre-independence
provisioning
protecting
maternal position in the dominance hierarchy affects status of young
Lifespan/Longevity
Horse lifespan is dependent on several factors, including breed variations and environment. Typically, domestic horses have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years, although a maximum of 61 years has been attained. The longest living horse in wild as of 1974 was 36 years. Factors on lifespan of E. caballus include: nutrition, activity, number of reproduction cycles, reproductive status, disease, dental health, and physical activity.
Horses are social mammals. In wild or feral populations they form herds with a social hierarchy. These herds, also known as bands, can have up to 26 mares, 5 stallions, and various ages of pre-dispersed young. Typical herd sizes will have only 5 to 11 mares and 1 to 4 stallions, in addition to their offspring, but these numbers vary among scholarly articles and may vary with food availability, environmental conditions, and other factors. This hierarchy is comprised of the alpha male being dominant over the herd, males dominant over females, females with young dominant over non-reproductive females, and adults being dominant over juveniles. The dominant or alpha male is significantly more active than other members of the herd. Studies show that, in feral horses, where regular members of the herd usually spend less than 10% of their time moving around, dominant males move from 25 to 45% of the time and sleep only 5 to 6% of their time, when the other herd members usually spend 20 to 27% of the time throughout the day sleeping. Alpha males also expend large amounts of energy rounding up females and defending them against other males during the breeding season. Alpha males usually move in the back of the herd, but will move to the front in the presence of a threat and signal to the herd in the event that the herd needs to flee. The alpha may also attack a threat if necessary to defend the herd.
Horses are crepuscular and have an interrupted sleeping pattern that compliments this. During the summer, horses graze in morning or evenings to avoid mid-day high temperatures, and can be seen visiting water sources at night as well. To adapt to this feeding pattern, they sleep in segments throughout the day, which are usually not more than two hours long. They also avoid laying down for more than an hour at a time if possible, and can be seen sleeping while standing up.
terricolous
Home Range
Wild horses generally stay close to water sources but, in transition between spring and summer when food is most abundant, horses can travel far from their water access points. One study in a feral population in New Zealand showed that home range sizes were between 0.96 to 17.68 square kilometers, with a density of 0.48 to 3.22 individuals per square kilometer. Herd size and home range are positively correlated, with a larger herd occupying a larger home range. Some studies on wild or feral horses show that there are seasonal movements and variation in the home range. These seasonal movements are typically associated with regular seasonal precipitation changes, food availability, temperatures, and topography. In winter, populations move away from lower elevations that were exposed to unusually cooler temperatures due to frost inversion layers, but would return prior to foaling or the mating season. Winter home ranges in feral populations are larger than summer home ranges on average, but these ranges vary significantly. True wild horse population are restricted to various reserves and reintroduction sites for their protection.
Communication and Perception
In horses, the nostrils, muzzle, whiskers, and cheeks all have whiskers that are used to perceive the environment through touch. Vision is the primary means of perceiving the environment in horses. Ears are long, slender, and upright, which aid in auditory perception. Although their sense of smell is important, it is not the chief means of perception and provides a smaller role than vision or the sensitive receptors on the nostrils, muzzle, whiskers, or cheeks.
The primary means of communicating with other horses is through vocalizations and gestures, particularly facial gestures. During the breeding season, males may grunt or scream at one another, in addition to stomping and pawing at the ground in an aggressive manner. Males may neigh to females in estrous and females may squeal and kick if they are refusing a rutting male. Grunting and aggressive gestures, including biting, shoving, and kicking, may occur among herd members to establish or reinforce the hierarchy structure and express dominance. Submissive individuals will let the winner lay their head on the loser’s back-end, which is seen in .
In addition to body gestures, horses have an array of facial gestures. Positive reactions include raising of the lips to expose upper teeth, similar to a smile, and head bobbing or pointing the ears forward and erect. Aggressive facial gestures include the ears being laid back and the nostrils closed while exposing the same teeth.
Food Habits
Primarily folivores by nature, horses primarily graze on true grasses. Domestic horses are often fed various amounts of grains, including oats, barley, corn, wheat, flax, soybeans, alfalfa, clover, Timothy hay, and Johnson grass. In addition to this diet, they may also be provided vitamin and mineral supplements. Feral horses eat a similar diet, including Russian thistle, dropseed grasses, mesquite, prairie junegrass, green sprangletop, and saltbush, and likely varies depending on location and season.
wood, bark, or stems
seeds, grains, and nuts
Natural predators of wild horses are likely to have been mainly , , and . Predators mainly prey on elderly, ill, or young animals.
When a herd is threatened by a predator, the alpha male may attack it through biting and kicking with the hooves. Females protect their young in a similar manner.
are also predators of horses, both historically and currently. Wild populations were probably hunted by humans and horse meat is consumed in some places.
Ecosystem Roles
The domestication of horses contributed to the development of agricultural societies and changed the mobility and political relationships between different human populations. As grazing animals, horses influence diversity and structure of the ecosystems in which they live. In some places horses have been important in seed dispersal of certain trees. There are over 150 species of parasites documented in horses.
Mutualist Species
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Horses are economically very important to humans now and historically. They have been used as a food source, have been critical in the transportation of people and goods, have played important roles in military campaigns, in sport and recreation, and in agricultural development. Horses are also beloved companion animals and widely used in therapeutic approaches. In agriculture, horses are used to pull plows and carriages and their manure is an important fertilizer. Horse hairs are used in various products.
body parts are source of valuable material
research and education
produces fertilizer
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Feral horse populations may be disruptive to ecosystems that are not adapted to the presence of large
grazers. They can compete with other grazing animals for resources and cause excessive damage to native vegetation. Studies show horses successfully outcompete other grazing species. Wild, feral, and domestic horses can also transmit zoonotic diseases, which can cause negative impacts to local animal species, agriculture, and people.
injures humans
Conservation Status
Domesticated horses are abundant in many areas around the world. Their closest relatives, Przewalski's wild horses were listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and on Appendix I of CITES. Some older studies state that domestication and release of domestic horses led to this decline in Przewalski's wild horse populations and they were thought to no longer exist in the wild. Current conservation efforts in Przewalski's wild horses include legal protection of the species in Mongolia as well as reintroduction efforts in several areas.
It is important to note that there have been some taxonomic changes that may affect the validity of information in the older literature on horses. Many older literature sources consider
as the wild subspecies of horses, and refer to it as E. c. przewalskii; however, recent sources and the IUCN Red List consider
as Equus ferus przewalskii and suggests that E. f. przewalskii is not the ancestor of E. caballus due to a difference in chromosome numbers. It is thought that they descended from different lineages, but this taxonomic debate is ongoing. It is difficult to make this clarification due to the near extinction of the , producing a bottleneck in genetic diversity. The current population of
is descended from 13 captive individuals, one being a domestic horse and one being a hybrid between a domestic horse and a . In the meantime, much older literature does not distinguish between wild E. caballus and . Much information available might actually be for both subspecies.
Contributors
Christopher Clement (author), University of Alaska Fairbanks, Laura Prugh (editor), University of Alaska Fairbanks, Tanya Dewey (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Australian
Living in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, New Guinea and associated islands.
living in sub-Saharan Africa (south of 30 degrees north) and Madagascar.
living in the Nearctic biogeographic province, the northern part of the New World.
This includes Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and all of the North American as far south as the highlands of central Mexico.
Neotropical
living in the southern part of the New World.
In other words, Central and South America.
Palearctic
living in the northern part of the Old World.
In otherwords, Europe and Asia and northern Africa.
uses sound to communicate
agricultural
living in landscapes dominated by human agriculture.
bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves.
Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends.
Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
causes or carries domestic animal disease
either directly causes, or indirectly transmits, a disease to a domestic animal
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
cosmopolitan
having a worldwide distribution. Found on all continents (except maybe Antarctica) and in all bio or in all the major oceans (Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific.
crepuscular
active at dawn and dusk
dominance hierarchies
ranking system or pecking order among members of a long-term social group, where dominance status affects access to resources or mates
endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature.
Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities.
Convergent in birds.
female parental care
parental care is carried out by females
an animal that mainly eats leaves.
A substance that provides both nutrients and energy to a living thing.
forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
a distribution that more or less circles the Arctic, so occurring in both the Nearctic and Palearctic biogeographic regions.
Found in northern North America and northern Europe or Asia.
introduced
referring to animal species that have been transported to and established populations in regions outside of their natural range, usually through human action.
iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction).
Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
marshes are wetland areas often dominated by grasses and reeds.
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
generally wanders from place to place, usually within a well-defined range.
oceanic islands
islands that are not part of continental shelf areas, they are not, and have never been, connected to a continental land mass, most typically these are volcanic islands.
found in the oriental region of the world.
In other words, India and southeast Asia.
the business of buying and selling animals for people to keep in their homes as pets.
the regions of the earth that surround the north and south poles, from the north pole to 60 degrees north and from the south pole to 60 degrees south.
polygynous
having more than one female as a mate at one time
Referring to something living or located adjacent to a waterbody (usually, but not always, a river or stream).
seasonal breeding
breeding is confined to a particular season
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
associates with o forms social groups.
a wetland area that may be permanently or intermittently covered in water, often dominated by woody vegetation.
uses touch to communicate
that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).
terrestrial
Living on the ground.
tropical savanna and grassland
A terrestrial biome. Savannas are grasslands with scattered individual trees that do not form a closed canopy. Extensive savannas are found in parts of subtropical and tropical Africa and South America, and in Australia.
A grassland with scattered trees or scattered clumps of trees, a type of community intermediate between grassland and forest. See also Tropical savanna and grassland biome.
temperate grassland
A terrestrial biome found in temperate latitudes (&23.5° N or S latitude). Vegetation is made up mostly of grasses, the height and species diversity of which depend largely on the amount of moisture available. Fire and grazing are important in the long-term maintenance of grasslands.
A terrestrial biome with low, shrubby or mat-like vegetation found at extremely high latitudes or elevations, near the limit of plant growth. Soils usually subject to permafrost. Plant diversity is typically low and the growing season is short.
uses sight to communicate
viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
young precocial
young are relatively well-developed when born
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