. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORSES—ASSES. 41J thing, sometimes dashing into a wall in their insane career. "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- plish 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
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORSES—ASSES. 41J thing, sometimes dashing into a wall in their insane career. "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- plish 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 (Asittus). 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- teristics of the getai of the Mongols (Equus [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. THE SHETLAND PONY.—Although all varieties of the domestic Horse are of one species, training and environment have produced widely diver- sified types. One of the ex
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