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How long can a horse live?

30 ~ 35 years old.

Horses are herbivores, weighing 1200 kg and 200 cm tall. The small variety weighs less than 200 kg and is only 95 cm tall. The so-called pocket pony is only 60 centimeters tall.

Horses are easy to train. Through the sense organs such as hearing, smell and vision, a firm memory can be formed. The average life expectancy is 30 ~ 35 years old, and the longest can reach more than 60 years old. The service age is 3 ~ 15 years old, and some can reach 20 years old.

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Horses have made great contributions to the development of human civilization. Horses not only provided food for ancient humans, such as meat and milk. Moreover, in a long historical period, it has been an important production tool and transportation tool for human beings, and even played a huge role in the battlefield.

According to a great deal of evidence about Tiber culture in northern Kazakhstan published in Science magazine in recent years, horses were domesticated in the Eurasian steppe at least 5,000 years ago in the Bronze Age.

There may be three purposes for the earliest domestication of horses: one is to keep the surplus hunting horses as food sources, the other is to serve and shoot horses, and the third is to sacrifice or watch.

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