What are the main characteristics of horses? I believe everyone is no stranger to horses. Horses are our common animals, and we have always maintained a very friendly attitude towards them. Next, I will take you to understand the characteristics of horses and what are the related contents.
What are the main characteristics of horses? 1 1. The horse's ear is located at the highest point of the head and has a large rotation angle. Horses have developed hearing in the long-term evolution process, and ears are organs with strong information perception ability. The horse's hearing is a compensation for poor eyesight. Horses have much more developed hearing than humans. It can distinguish sounds of various intensities and establish conditioned reflex.
2. Horses have a keen sense of smell. It can easily receive all kinds of external information without being detected by hearing or other sensory organs, and can respond quickly. When a horse recognizes or distinguishes things, it first uses its sense of smell, and sometimes it approaches things actively, slaps its nose and breathes short, so as to strengthen the recognition or exploration of new things, and then takes corresponding rest or avoidance.
3. The horse has poor ability to analyze and judge the distance, and it is easy to make mistakes when retreating. It must change the position of its head to see an object clearly and move its eyes slightly to focus on it. When the horse moves or the head position changes, the angle at which the eyes look at the object will also change.
Different breeds of horses vary greatly in size. Heavy variety weight 1200 kg, height 200 cm. The small variety weighs less than 200 kg and is only 95 cm tall. The so-called pony is only 60 centimeters tall. The head is straight and long and the ears are short. The limbs are long, the bones are solid, the tendons and ligaments are developed, and the cicada's hoof with palm and pillow marks is hard and can run quickly on the hard ground.
Horses are very competitive and do not give in to each other. Horse racing takes advantage of this feature. In the competition, I tried my best until I died, even though I was exhausted by the blood from my nose and mouth. The gregarious ability of horses is related to breeds and feeding and management conditions. For example, a light horse is stronger than a heavy horse, and herding horses is better than feeding them in the house.
What are the main characteristics of horses? What are the behavioral characteristics of horses?
Vision:
The horse's eyes are located on both sides of the head, and the field of vision is curved. The panoramic field of vision can reach 330 ~ 360, which only exceeds the field of vision behind the buttocks, forming a "blind zone". The focal length of the horse eye is only 30, and the visual experience of static objects is not as good as that of dynamic objects. Horses have better ability to recognize yellow, green and blue than red, purple and gray, and can see the distance that people can't see, so they have good night vision. Direct exposure to the horse's eyes can easily cause shock.
Listening:
The horse's ears can rotate with the sound, and its hearing is developed, which can establish a conditioned reflex to human passwords. However, excessive volume and high-frequency sound are bad stimuli for Malays and will scare them. When the horse's ears don't fall backwards, maybe it is angry or in a bad mood. Please don't approach it rashly.
Smell:
Horses have a very developed sense of smell. Mainly rely on the sense of smell to identify owners, companions, mothers and children, gender, roads, stables, feed types and so on. Find water by smell, find companions or avoid wild animals according to the smell of feces.
Taste:
Horses like sweets, and their instinct and taste can avoid eating poisonous plants with bitter taste. When a horse tastes sweet grass unlike it, it will spit it out at once. Horses also have a good ability to find good food. They can easily learn to look for grapes, carrots or sugar cubes hidden on riders.
Touch:
Horses' limbs, abdomen, lips and ears are very sensitive and have strong tactile analysis ability. Brushing the horse's body can promote the affinity of the horse, and patting the horse's neck can encourage the horse.
Pain:
Horses' upper lips, ears, eyes and hoof crowns are sensitive to pain. Horses have a strong dependence and trust on people, so don't "be punished" for their pain easily, otherwise they will escape, defend and attack.
Feeling:
Horses are very competitive, and horse racing takes advantage of this feature. Parallel horses always walk faster and faster, always trying to overtake each other, and stallions love fighting more. Horses can feel happiness, sadness, fear, love, trust and distrust, excitement, boredom, stress, depression, curiosity and even jealousy.
Memory and imitation:
Horses have developed brains and can remember their owners, roads, water sources, stables, feeding and resting places. A horse that has been physically punished or injured can keep this unpleasant memory for many years or even longer. Horses have strong imitation ability, and they can learn more complicated movements with old horses and new horses during training.
Rest and awakening:
Horses are active animals. Adult horses sleep about 6-7 hours a day and night on average, and sleep deeply for about 2 hours. Horses can sleep standing up and have a good rest. The horse stands quietly after eating, that is, sleeps or wakes up immediately. Horses often lie prone after deep sleep, and rolling when tired is also a way to relax and rest.
Feeding and digestion characteristics:
Horses usually eat standing up and chew slowly. Therefore, horses should not eat less than 6-8 hours a day. Horse's stomach is small, and the food stays in the stomach for a short time (about 4 hours). Therefore, horses are easy to be full and hungry, and the best way to feed them is to eat less and eat more meals. Feeding grass at night can improve the feed intake of horses and ensure their health. As the saying goes, "A horse without night grass is not fat" is scientifically justified. Exercise and disturbance should be avoided when eating, so as not to form the bad habit of protecting food, or even cause diseases such as intestinal obstruction. Clean running water should be available in the stable for horses to drink at any time.
What are the characteristics of horses?
Horse's sense of smell is very developed, and it is an organ with very strong information perception ability. It is easy to accept all kinds of information from outside without being detected by hearing or other sensory organs, and it can react quickly. The perfect combination of developed sense of smell, sensitive hearing and agile movements is the success of horses' evolution for thousands of years and the main physiological characteristics of horses' contribution to mankind.
Horses collect food for a long time in a day, and the speed and amount of eating are mainly determined by their sense of smell. Therefore, taste is a very important sensory organ of horses. There is not much information about horse flavor, but it is very distinctive and easy to master and use.
Horses don't have to sleep at night, let alone sleep until dawn. If no one disturbs it, it can sleep, stand, lie down and lie down anytime and anywhere. Malaysia can sleep eight or nine times a day, which adds up to almost six hours. Horses sleep best in two hours before dawn.
The nature of this animal is by no means fierce, they are just brave and wild. Although they are stronger than most animals, they never attack other animals; If they are attacked by other animals, they are too lazy to fight with each other, just drive them away or trample them to death. They also walk in groups, and the reason why they get together is purely for the happiness of living in groups. Because they are fearless, they don't need to unite to resist aggression, but they are attached to each other and reluctant to part. Because vegetation has enough food for them, because they have enough food to satisfy their appetite, and because they are not interested in animal meat, they will never fight with other animals, nor will they fight with each other, let alone compete for each other's means of subsistence. They never chase a small animal or rob the same kind of things, and this kind of incident is the root of other carnivores' usual fighting with each other: so horses always live in peace, because their desires are ordinary and simple, and they have enough living resources to avoid being jealous of each other.
Among all animals, the horse is tall, and all parts of its body are the most symmetrical and beautiful; Because, if we compare it with animals one level higher or lower than it, we will find that the donkey is too ugly, the lion's head is too big, the calf is too thin and too short, which is out of proportion to its heavy body, the camel is deformed, and the largest animals, such as rhinoceros and elephant, can be said to be just unformed meatballs. Excessive jaw elongation is the main difference between animal head and human head, and it is also the most humble symbol of all animals; However, although the jawbone of a horse is very long, it doesn't look like a donkey, but like an ox.
On the contrary, although its head proportion is neat, it gives it a light appearance, which just complements the aesthetic feeling of the neck. As soon as the horse looks up, it seems that he wants to surpass his position as a quadruped. With such a noble gesture, it looks at people face to face. Its eyes are sparkling and honest; Its ears are also very good, neither too big nor too small, unlike the ears of cows that are too short and donkeys that are too long. Its mane just lines its head and adorns its neck, giving it a strong and heroic appearance; Its drooping and lush tail covers and beautifully ends the end of its body: ponytails are very different from the short tails of deer and elephants. The bald tails of donkeys, camels and rhinoceroses are made of thick and long manes, as if these manes grow directly from the buttocks, because the small meat piles with manes are very short.
It can't tilt its tail like a lion. Although its tail hangs down, it suits it well. Because it can make its tail swing to both sides, it can effectively drive away flies with its tail, which makes it very upset, because its skin is very strong and covered with thick short hair, but it is still very sensitive.