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LillyPip @lemmy.ca

2y ago

TIL Some horses can grow a moustache

Link with more horsestaches.

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Horse: "bonjour"

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  Horses produce roughly 10 gallons of saliva per day!
  
  That, I didn't want to know.
  
  We should use horse saliva as a humane milk replacement.
- Horses have bones in their legs called splint bones. They are vestigial metacarpals from back when they had 3 toes. As of yet we can't find any role they perform. If damaged or removed it can lead to chronic lameness a condition in horses that will often lead to death.
  
  As of yet we can't find any role they perform. If damaged or removed it can lead to chronic lameness
  That seems to imply they perform a structural role, unless I’m oversimplifying it?
  I’m a bit of an anthropology geek, and am super interested in vestigial traits. I have one: the ‘elf ear’, or Darwin’s Tubercal. Mine turns down, not out, so I’m not genetically lucky enough to cosplay as an elf. I kinda feel ripped off.
  e: ha, I’m a better example than the wiki picture. Anyone can feel free to use my picture, it’s a pretty good example.
- The one horse fact I know is that violin bows (and presumably all viol* and string bass bows) use tail hair from male horses, never female, to avoid using pee-drenched hairs.

TIL a horse can grow a better stache than me.

... damn. Well done op, I'm not sure how I got this old without knowing this. Hella random, sure, but it's ... a horse with a moustache. I mean, c'mon.

This is now automatically a great day.

Classy

Hmm I mustache a question as this intrigues me

I stared at that image and could not tell wtf it was. Looks like a dogs belly but there is weird hair where the legs should be.
- It's a horse's nose, with a moustache (the "weird hair"). The other pictures in the link OP provided make it easier to understand for people who aren't familliar with what horse noses look like. Example:
  
  looks like he’s giving me one more chance to pay him back before his Shetlands come round to rearrange my knees.

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Nothing is more pleasing to the touch than a horse's nose. Okay, vulva is pretty amazing too.
- That escalated quickly.
- !unsubscribe

Mesdames et messieurs, je vous présente "une merveilles"
I made that grammatical error deliberately.

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