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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas classically display a mottled coat, colorless sclera (the section of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The breed background of this well-loved horse is not totally known. There is plenty of evidence that spotted horses were being bred in many geographical regions in Asia and europe, and archeologists have found cave paintings which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing spotty horses that may be the origins of the modern appaloosa. It is very likely that the mottled skin was by origin a type of camouflage, much as the zebra's stripes.
The modern Appaloosa is descended from horses carried to Mexico and the u.s. by early settlers. These were acquired by the Nez perce tribe, who expertly engineered them into the fantastic horses that we know and love nowadays.
The appaloosa was in the first instance referred to as the "Palouse horse", although over time its name has changed into the present-day version, "Appaloosa".
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