Scientific Name of Horse (Domestic Horse)

The domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a subspecies of Equus ferus – also known as the Wild horse. The earliest known ancestor of horses is the Eohippus, from the Early Eocene era, a multi-toed animal which was almost as big as a Fox Terrier.

Horses were first domesticated by humans around 4,000 BC, with the exception of wild horses. The term wild horses is used to refer to the fact that humans never domesticated Przewalski’s horse is a very rare and endangered wild horse which is found in the steppes of Central Asia.

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