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prey animals that let us ride them, which is honestly a wild leniency on their part
means the plural of horse — large four-legged mammals domesticated for riding, hauling, and labor.
from From Old English "hors," a word shared across the old Germanic family (Old Norse "hross," Old High German "hros"). Its deeper root is uncertain — one tempting guess links it to a sense of "running" or "leaping," but that connection is unproven. Curiously, English already had "hors" long before it borrowed the Latin-derived "equine" and the unrelated "mare," so the everyday animal kept its plain Germanic name while the fancy adjectives arrived later.
- sleep trick
- can doze standing up via leg-locking tendons
- giant eyes
- largest eyes of any land mammal
- no vomit
- physically cannot throw up, ever
- speed math
- can gallop within hours of birth
- mood readers
- recognize and remember human facial expressions
secretariat — racehorse that won the triple crown in 1973 with a record belmont stakes time of 2:24
trigger — roy rogers' palomino horse, appeared in 88 films and 100+ tv episodes from 1938-1957
phar lap — australian racehorse that won 37 of 51 races in the 1930s, died under mysterious circumstances in 1932
bucephalus — alexander the great's black horse, reportedly only he could ride, died around 326 bce