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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas customarily display a mottled skin, white sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The history of this distinctive horse is not completely recognized. There is proof that spotted horses were living in very many nations in 'the old world', and historians have found cave pictures dating back to 18000BC illustrating mottled horses that may be forefathers of the horse we know today. It seems likely that the mottled skin was initially a form of camouflage, much as the striped pattern on a zebra.
The contemporary Appaloosa descends from horses shipped over to America by spanish conquistadors. These were somehow acquired by the Nez perce tribe, who masterfully turned them into the first-rate horses that we admire nowadays.
The horse was initially known as the "Palouse horse", although slowly the name was changed into the modern rendering, "Appaloosa".
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