Title: The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;
Identifier: cu31924024782827 (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals
Publisher: Chicago, A. N. Marquis
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE HORSESâASSES. 413 thing, sometimes dashing into a wall in their insane -career. . . tt "The one real enjoyment of a Horse is running. He is a traveler by nature. Horses grazing in the Russian steppes run merely for the pleasure of it. They will drag coaches at a gallop, and thus accom- ^)lish a day's journey, without misgivings about find- ing the long way home again. On the pasturage they romp and play all kinds of antics, such as run- ning races and biting each other. There are some -which constantly annoy the others. The animal which measures his strength with Man must feel himself near to humanity; must, in fact, believe him- self nearly, if not quite, Man's equal. " The stallion is a terrible animal in every way. His strength is immense, his courage surpasses our understanding, and hence is generally underesti- mated; his eye is full of fire. The mare is much THE ASSES. The second sub-species of the Horses is formed by the Asses and Zebras (Asinus). They differ from the Horses proper by having only the extremity of the tail covered with long hair, and by the absence of the rudimentary nail at the top of the fetlocks on the fore-feet. Physical Charac- The Koulan of the Khirgiz or Dzig- ten'stics of the getai of the Mongols (Eguus (^Asinus) Koulan, hemionus) is possessed of certain points of beauty which place it, in the elegance of its appearance, far above the Ass. An exceedingly light body, slender limbs, a wild, fleet appearance and the beautiful color of its hair are its strong points. It is somewhat larger than the small variety of Mules, nearly equaling a small Horse in size. The head is somewhat heavy, the chest large, angular in its lower
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THE SHETLAND PONY,âAlthough all varieties of the domestic Horse are of one species, training and environment have produced widely diver- â¢sified types. One of the extremes is the Shetland Pony, which owes its dwarfed form to centuries of breeding in the uncongenial climate of Shetland. Though the smallest variety it is very strong and has great endurance. The flowing mane and tail contribute much to this animal's beauty. gentler, more good-natured, obliging, obedient, do- cile; hence she is generally preferred to the stallion. The Horse is susceptible of almost every mental emotion. He loves and hates, feels the promptings of envy, revenge, caprice, etc. No two Horses are alike. The one is vicious, treacherous and false, the other is docile and gentle. Either nature or train- ing, or both, have made them what they are. " How different are the various periods in the life â of Horses; the fate of most is to be petted, pampered â¢and kept in clover when young, and to be despised and neglected cart Horses fed on the coarsest hay, and plentifully, treated to blows when old. Many a favorite steed has been mourned with sorrowful tears and has justly had a marble monument erected in his honor. Horses, like Men, have their infancy for mischief, their yoiith for beauty, their maturity for work, their old age in which they grow lazy and weak: they bloom, mature and fade!" part and slightly compressed. The ears are longer than those of the Horse, but shorter than those of common Mules. The mane is short and erect, sim- ilar to that of the Ass, and the tail and hoofs also resemble those of that animal. The chest and upper parts of- the fore-legs are narrow and far from being as muscular as those of the Horse; the hinder quar- ters are also thin, and the limbs are exceedingly light and fine and moderately long. The prevailing color of the Dziggetai is a light yellowish brown; the nose and inner faces of the limbs are of a pale yellow color; the mane and the tail are blackish, and a dainty brown-black stripe runs along the spine, broadening on the croup and then again becoming quite nar- row near the tail. The total length of the animal amounts to about one hundred inches, the head oc- cupying twenty inches of this, and the tail sixteen, exclusive of the tuft; the height at the top of the shoulders varies between fifty-two and sixty inches.

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