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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas customarily display a leopard spotted skin, white sclera (the bit of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The background of this distinctive horse is not fully known. There is plenty of evidence that mottled horses were being bred in very many geographical regions in Europe, and there are cave pictures dating back to 18000BC illustrating spotty horses that might be forefathers of the appaloosa we know today. It is quite likely that the spotted pattern was initially a form of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa is descended from horses carried to The usa by settlers. These were passed to the Nez perce indian tribe, who expertly turned them into the tremendous horses that we recognize these days.
The horse was first known as the "Palouse horse", but bit by bit the name changed into the contemporary interpretation, "Appaloosa".
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