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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas normally display a leopard spotted skin, white sclera (the bit of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The story of this distinctive horse is not totally recognized. There is some proof that spotted horses were present in many countries in Europe, and historians have found cave pictures which are as old as to 18000BC illustrating mottled horses that may be the origins of the modern appaloosa. It is quite likely that the mottled coat was initially a type of camouflage, similar to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The contemporary Appaloosa descends from horses shipped to Mexico and the u.s. by early colonists. These were acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who skillfully turned them into the terrific horses that we know nowadays.
The horse was first known as the "Palouse horse", but bit by bit the name has changed into the modern variant, "Appaloosa".
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