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The mustang
The mustang is a renowned horse that is recognized by many people as a living and breathing symbol of the influential and cowboy excitement of the American wild west.
Even though Mustangs are ordinarily known as 'wild' horses, the more appropriate phrase is 'feral' horses as all so-called 'wild' horses inside America are bred from horses that were originally domesticated horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by the early colonists.
Almost all of these foreign horses were of European or Arab breeding stock, although they also had amongst them all possible colours and many horse lovers types and breeds.
Some of these great horses went wild or were taken by the indigenous peoples, and soon spread throughout the whole of the u.s.
The Appaloosa
Appaloosas commonly have a mottled skin, pale sclera (the part of the eye close to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The background of this popular horse is only partly recognized. There is some evidence that spotted horses were present in quite a few countries in Europe, and there are cave drawings which have been dated to 18000BC clearly showing mottled horses that may be the origins of the horse we know today. It is quite likely that the mottled pattern was originally a type of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa is descended from horses brought to The u.s. by spanish conquistadors. These were passed on to the Nez perce tribe, who skillfully engineered them into the first-rate horses that we admire nowadays.
The appaloosa was first referred to as the "Palouse horse", even though slowly its name changed into the present-day variant, "Appaloosa".
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