Horse in Farmstead World — animal in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
Horses are big, strong herd animals that people have used for centuries to travel, haul and work the land.
They mature slowly and live for decades, needing room to move and a steady supply of good forage.
Farm facts about horse
Horses evolved over roughly 50 million years from Eohippus, a dog-sized forest browser whose padded feet ended in tiny hooves instead of claws. (en.wikipedia.org)
Horses evolved in North America but went extinct there about 10,000 years ago; they returned in 1493 with Spanish colonists, and mustangs descend from escapees. (en.wikipedia.org)
Horses are odd-toed ungulates, which makes rhinoceroses and tapirs their closest living relatives. (en.wikipedia.org)
Modern horses run on a single enlarged middle toe; their ancestors' side toes survive only as slim 'splint bones' below the knee. (en.wikipedia.org)
Wild horses painted on cave walls 30,000 years ago were hunted for meat - people ate horses long before they rode them. (en.wikipedia.org)
Around 3500 BCE the Botai people of Kazakhstan milked mares and likely rode horses, yet modern domestic horses are not descended from theirs. (en.wikipedia.org)