What is the function of a horse's tail? What are the characteristics of life?

Horse is a kind of herbivorous mammal. In ancient times, it was called Bai Kui, Feihuang, Ji, Luo, Liu. Now we see domesticated breeds. There are great differences in horse body types among different breeds, with heavy breeds reaching more than 2000 jin and small breeds less than 400 jin, with different coat colors. The life span of a horse is relatively long, usually 30 to 35 years, and its running ability is very good. Let's take a look at the function of the horse's tail. What are the characteristics of life?

What is the function of a horse's tail?

The horse's tail is an indispensable part of the body, when running is very elegant, free and easy, very handsome. The tail of a horse has many functions. In addition to keeping its balance when running and jumping, it can also swing around to sweep away the threat of mosquitoes and gadflies when mosquitoes bite. In addition, the horse's tail can also have the role of heat preservation, from the strength and smoothness of the horse's tail hair can be seen the horse's health.

Second, what are the characteristics of horse life?

1. Life habits

Horse is a kind of animal that likes to live in groups, usually a male horse with multiple mares to breed. Each population has its own range of activities and migrates at a speed of five to ten kilometers a day. Groups clean each other's skin after eating, such as licking each other's backs and buttocks, as well as cleaning themselves, such as rolling and repelling mosquitoes.

The horse is also a very smart animal, more trained, through the eyes, ears and other visual organs to form a certain memory, even at night, the horse can also see the surrounding creatures clearly.

2. Common varieties

According to the adaptation, appearance and sexual function of horses to the natural environment, horses can be divided into grassland species, desert species, mountain species and forest species.

According to the height, size, utilization nature, body size and beneficial economic characteristics of the horse, it can be divided into multiplicative type, utility type and dual-purpose type.

According to the pedigree, that is, the breeding degree and temperament type of the horse, it can be divided into cold bloodline, hot bloodline and mild bloodline.

Common horse breeds are Tatar Mustang, Przewalski Mustang, Dawan Horse, Mongolian Horse, Kazakh Horse and Hequ Horse.

What we see now are domesticated horses, so why domesticate horses? The first is to keep extra hunting horses as a source of food, the second is to shoot arrows, to ride and serve, and the third is to sacrifice or watch.

3. Population status.

At present, there are more than 50 million horses in stock in the world, mainly on all continents except Antarctica. The number of horses in our country is about 6 million, ranking second in the world. There are abundant horse breed resources, but now the number is declining sharply, so we should protect them more.