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What is a horse?

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... hoofed, herbivorous mammal now represented by a single extant genus, Equus. The term horse commonly refers only to the domestic Equus caballus and to the wild Przewalski's horse . (Other so-called wild horses are feral domestic horses or their descendants.) ...

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