Science of Horses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789350563007)

The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses.

Author: Amita Sarkar
ISBN-10: 9350563002
ISBN-13: 9789350563007
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House Pvt Ltd
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d