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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas generally show a mottled skin, colorless sclera (the section of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The background of this unusual horse is only partly known. There is plenty of proof that spotted horses were living in a good many geographical regions in Asia and europe, and historians have found cave drawings which are as old as to 18000BC illustrating mottled horses that might be forefathers of the horse we know today. It is very likely that the spotted coat was in the first instance a type of camouflage, much as the zebra's stripes.
The modern Appaloosa descends from horses shipped to The usa by colonists. These were passed to the Nez perce tribe, who proficiently turned them into the excellent horses that we know and love today.
The appaloosa was originally referred to as the "Palouse horse", although slowly the name changed into the present-day alternative, "Appaloosa".
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