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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas typically display a mottled coat, colorless sclera (the bit of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The breed background of this popular horse is only partly understood. There is evidence that mottled horses were living in a number of nations in Europe, and historians have found cave pictures which have been dated back to 18000BC showing mottled horses that may be forefathers of the horse we know today. It is very likely that the mottled coat was initially a type of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the zebra's stripes.
The present-day Appaloosa descends from horses brought to Mexico and the u.s. by spanish conquistadors. These got into the hands of the Nez perce people, who expertly turned them into the extraordinary horses that we admire nowadays.
The appaloosa was in the first instance known as the "Palouse horse", even though bit by bit its name transformed into the modern-day version, "Appaloosa".
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