A Difference Between People And Animals

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Humbleoats_small Have you ever read that a human being can outrun a horse?

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Have you ever read that a human being can outrun a horse?

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Today we are going to talk about the difference between animals and people in general and horses and American male athletes in particular.

Like so many of the things we talk about, this topic was brought to mind when I opened the Encyclopedia Britannica at random and read about horses. Did you know that the horse is ranked fourth in intelligence among the lower animals following the elephant, the ape and the dog? Horses can find their way home. If you are mean to your horse, your horse will not like you and will remember it for a long time. As you remember from reading Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms, horses are naturally friendly and seldom attack man or animal. Horses can find water in a desert, can be aware of unknown and unseen dangers, and can discriminate between enemies and friends at even long distances. A normal vigorous stallion is usually restricted to 50 to 60 mares per seaso...
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