This week at the Zoo

 Horse

• Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.
  
• Horses can run shortly after birth.
  
• Domestic horses have a lifespan of around 25 years.
• Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.
  
• Horses are herbivores (plant eaters).
  
• Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.
  
• A male horse is called a stallion.
  
• A female horse is called a mare.
  
• A young male horse is called a colt.
  
• A young female horse is called a filly.
  
• Ponies are small horses.