Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Horse Adaptations
- Behavioural
- Flighty when i danger
- except when cornered and protecting a foal
- Herd
- safety in numbers
- Anotomical
- long neck to reach grass while standing
- large ears that pivot
- can hear far away and a lot of frequencies
- large eyes on the side of
their head to be able to see
everywhere
- only place where they cannot sense in above them
- no predators from above
- depending on mood
- tail in air, snorting, ears pricked forward,head high, prancing = excited
- ears back, stomping, tail between legs = moody
- ears twitching around head streched out, tail swishing= laid back
- small intestine
- horses eat a lot of fibre and so need a lot of bile to digest it
- 15-22m long
- Horses do not have a gall bladder, so bile flows constantly.
- Most food is digested and absorbed into
the bloodstream from the small intestine,
including proteins, simple carbohydrate,
fats, and vitamines A, D, and E
- The trachea is the tube
which carries air into the
lungs, and is about 75–80
cm in length in the adult.
- It is held permanently open
by 50-60 "C"-shaped rings of
cartilage, 5–6 cm in diameter
- heart
- 4 chambers and average of 3.9kg with vessels
- heart rate range from 20 – 240 beats
per minute and a splenic red cell reserve
able to double packed cell volume and
oxygen delivery during maximal exercise
- THIS IS WHY YOU MUST COOL DOWN PROPERLY OTHERWHISE YOUR HORSES HEART LITERALLY EXPLODES WITH THE PRESSURE!!!
- The circulatory system
- the hoof
- . As the horse puts weight
onto the hoof, the hoof
wall is pushed outwards
and the frog compressed,
driving blood out of the
frog, the digital pad, and
the laminae of the hoof
- When weight is removed
from the hoof, the release of
pressure pulls blood back
down into the foot again. This
effectively creates an
auxiliary blood-pumping
system at the end of each leg
- Physiological
- horses have teeth that continually
grow so that they can grind their teeth
together on short grass
- horses have two sets of teeth for this. they can eat very
short grass. cows, however only have one set of teeth
and a hard gum but can only eat long grass.
- the ability to
prduce loads of
RBC and run
fast for a long
period of time
- event horses 570m/min (21.25miles/h) for 11.5 minutes