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This provides a horse with the best chance to spot predators. The horse's wide range of monocular vision has two "blind spots," or areas where the animal cannot see: in front of the face, making a cone that comes to a point at about 90–120 cm (3–4 ft) in front of the horse, and right behind its head, which extends over the back and behind ...
Cataracts are the result of the opacification [4] or cloudiness of the lens in the eye. Cataracts can be developed through old age, diseases or trauma to the eye. [5] Some animals that are prone to the development of cataracts are dogs, elephants, horses, pandas and seals.
A piebald horse, Tobiano pattern. A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots. The animal's skin under the white background is not pigmented.
An equine behaviourist said warning signs included ‘pinned ears, tense facial muscles, swishing tails or shifting weight’.
African wild ass foal with black chestnut on foreleg, no chestnut on hindleg Domestic horse with chestnuts on fore and hind legs. The evolution of the horse involved a reduction in the number of toes to one, along with other changes to the ancestral equid foot, and the chestnut is thought to correspond to the wrist pad of dogs and cats.
The fovea centralis is a small, central pit composed of closely packed cones in the eye.It is located in the center of the macula lutea of the retina. [1] [2]The fovea is responsible for sharp central vision (also called foveal vision), which is necessary in humans for activities for which visual detail is of primary importance, such as reading and driving.
The study seeks to explain how coat pigment cells could link to various conditions including deafness.
Honestly, we could name more than 32 but these are our top reasons why dogs are better than humans. When it comes to companionship, dogs have a way of stealing the spotlight.