Coloring Book Horses

Coloring pages with horses for both girls and boys. We will have difficult pictures that consist of a large number of small elements and it is not easy to paint them with crayons after printing or even online. We will see riders who sit on the backs of these animals and take part in races on tracks.

Horses are hoofed mammals that have lived with humans for thousands of years. Almost all horses alive today are domesticated and descended from extinct wild horses. Horses have roamed our planet for about 50 million years. The earliest horses evolved in North America before spreading to the rest of the world. They were usually used as draught power and for farm work. It is only now that they are shown in exhibitions and compete in various races around the world.

When were these animals domesticated ?

Modern horses were probably first domesticated in central Asia between 3000 and 4000 BC. They were originally bred for meat and milk. They became a valuable asset to people living on the steppes of Central Asia, where horses are still eaten and milked today. Fermented mare's milk is a popular alcoholic beverage among the kumis, a people living on the steppes of Central Asia. As horses became more domesticated, people developed more uses for them, such as serving as a means of transportation, as companion animals, and as a source of entertainment in the form of horse racing. Today, horses can be found in the care of people all over the Earth.

Sizes of these animals and information about them

Horses are muscular animals with a long tail made of coarse hair, a long, thick neck, and a mane. Humans have created hundreds of different breeds of these animals through selective breeding, resulting in many different coat colors for horses, including chestnut, golden with a white mane and tail (palomino), spotted, and completely black. Measured from the ground to the tops of their shoulders, they typically range between 76 and 175 centimeters in height, and weigh between 50 pounds to as much as 1,000 pounds.

Trivia

1) How do these animals sleep ? They sleep most of the time lying down with their eyes closed, occasionally they sleep lying down.

2) They can't burp, at least not in the way humans can. They also can't vomit or breathe through their mouths like humans. The horse's digestive system is unidirectional, unlike cattle and other ruminants, which retract their food to chew it again.

3) The age of these animals can be estimated by their teeth and dentition. Often older animals may not have teeth that have fallen out as a result of bad feeding.

4) Life in a herd - naturally horses in the wild live in larger or slightly smaller herds where they have a single handler. If you breed these animals, it's better for them to live with a companion than alone because a single individual is very stressful.

5) The domestication of these animals occurred about 6000 thousand years ago compared to dogs that were domesticated about 16000 thousand years ago and cats that appeared in homes as early as 8000 years ago.