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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas ordinarily show a leopard spotted skin, pale sclera (the section of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The breed history of this distinctive horse is only partly understood. There is some evidence that mottled horses were found in a good number of nation-states in Asia and europe, and archeologists have found cave drawings which have been dated back to 18000BC illustrating spotty horses that may be forefathers of the modern appaloosa. It is quite possible that the spotted pattern was first a type of camouflage, much as the stripes on a zebra.
The contemporary Appaloosa descends from horses carried to The usa by early settlers. These were somehow acquired by the Nez perce tribe, who skillfully engineered them into the extraordinary horses that we love right now.
This fine horse was originally called the "Palouse horse", even though slowly its name changed into the modern-day version, "Appaloosa".
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