horses’ lungs bleed when they run at a certain speed

if their diet is too rich / low in selenium their hooves fall off

excuse me

The reason they have such poor health outcomes after breaking or otherwise injuring their legs is because their legs are actually hyper-specialized fingers; and as in human fingers, there is very little muscle supporting the bone, just a lot of cartilage and tendons and whatnot. You’d think an animal that literally evolved to run away to avoid being eaten would have ALSO evolved sturdier running appendages, but…

I fucking hate this post, it’s 1 AM I don’t want to know that horse legs are giant fucking fingers

holy shit

the homologues of the (human) knee and elbow on a horse are at the level of the ribcage. the “knees” in the middle of the legs are homologous to wrists on the front and heels on the back. anything below that is hand/foot.

I understood most of that but the diagram for me is what makes me never want to look at a horse again

arabian horses have been bred so badly that they have breathing problems because of the shape of their face

This is how horses are built compared to a human

I wish Tumblr would stop telling me things about horses

centaurs are real and they look like that last photo

Just when I thought I was finally getting the hang of horses, I find out I know nothing.

so someone said horses legs are like fingers and I drew this

isn’t art wonderful?

[rebloging to my art blog]

@elodieunderglass horrible things without legs

I get mildly offended whenever I see that post addition because the horse should be prancing on its fingernails. Hooves and fingernails are equivalent. it angers me

Horses have the vestigial remains of a toe on the inside of each leg.  This is called the chestnut and it slowly grows until it dries out and falls off, or you get annoyed and pull it off.