It is considered that the most suitable for animals are natural conditions. Some particularly impressionable people think that only there they live happily ever after. Is it really?
From the point of view of biology, the maximum age of an animal is approximately six to seven times greater than the time it reaches physiological maturity, after which the body completely ceases to grow.
So how long does the horse live in this case? Considering that her body ceases to grow in six years, theoretically age can be 36 years!
Legends say that some stallions reachedsurprising age of 60 years, but more or less reliable documentary sources contain information only about 40 years. Of course, in many respects, how much the horse lives depends on the conditions of its maintenance. So, a working peasant mare is unlikely to last at least 20 years.
It is not necessary to consider that long-livers can beonly stallions or only mare. At the University of Berlin, the skeleton of the stallion of the famous emperor Frederick II is on display. Biologists have proved that the age of the animal at the time of his death was 40 years.
A vivid example of this can serve as a domestic horse Budynok. It was a thoroughbred racehorse, which for all its years of "service" managed to establish not one world record.
He lived up to the venerable age at the age of 32, the last several years he was on "pension", being on the full content of one of the stables at the academy of KI. Scriabin.
By the way, how many horses live for years, if in themis Arabic blood flowing? The famous mares of the Terek stud farm (Tarash, Sahara and Strada) survived to the age of 31. Gifted by the Egyptian authorities, the stallion Raafat, who also lived in the stables of the Terek stud farm, lived to be 29 years old.
Once again, we recall that in the ancient manuscripts of the same Arabs there is information about even more "durable" animals, which sometimes experienced their master, or even two.
We have not accidentally spent so much time considering the issues of the longevity of the pedigree horses, which the person cares for. This was done for a better comparison with their wild relatives.
So how much does an average horse live in an environment? In this case, the period of her life depends on a number of factors: diseases, predators and simply accidents and injuries.
Naturalists pointed out that up to the age of 13-15 years, only every tenth stallion lived, and with mares the situation was even more sad.
Domesticated horses began to live much longer. The development of modern pharmaceuticals suggests that new record holders will soon appear.
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