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Also Known As Equus caballus

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Standardbred gelding
Cave painting depicting a bull and a horse in brown and black pigments on a textured stone wall in Lascaux Grotto, France.
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Ancient mosaic detail showing Alexander the Great in armor riding his horse Bucephalus at the Battle of Issus, with another soldier visible behind him.
jade horse head
The top half of the diagram shows a labeled illustration of a horse skeleton, identifying bones such as the skull, vertebrae, pelvis, ribs, and limbs. The bottom half displays the external anatomy of a horse (Equus caballus), with labels for key body points including muzzle, withers, shoulder, back, flank, hock, and hoof.
Illustration of a horse's hoof with a side view showing internal skeletal bones aligned inside the hoof and a bottom view displaying the horseshoe and the V-shaped frog structure.
Diagram showing the teeth of a horse (Equus caballus), with labeled molars, premolars, incisors, and tushes in a side view of the skull. Below are side and top views comparing the dental structure of young and old horses.
A grid of nine illustrations shows horses with different coat colors and patterns, including dappled gray, dun, brown, strawberry roan, chestnut, skewbald, palomino, bay, and black.
Illustration showing four horse heads with different white facial markings labeled as star, stripe, blaze, and snip, each marking varying in shape and position on the horse's face.
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