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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas naturally display a mottled skin, colorless sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The background of this popular horse is not completely known. There is some proof that mottled horses were being bred in a good number of nations in Europe, and we know of cave drawings which are as old as to 18000BC showing spotty horses that could well be be related to the appaloosa we know today. It is very likely that the spotted coat was in the first instance a type of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the stripes on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa is descended from horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by colonists. These got into the hands of the Nez perce people, who expertly bred them into the extraordinary horses that we recognize these days.
The horse was in the first instance known as the "Palouse horse", even though gradually the name has changed into the contemporary rendering, "Appaloosa".
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