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What is monocular vision?
Horses can separate pictures with each eye, side vision
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What is binocular vision?
Horses looking at same thing with both eyes, front vision
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For a horse to be looking directly at you what direction should there head be pointing?
Their head should be up
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To see a farther away a horse must what?
Lower its head
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A horse cannot see where?
Directly behind it or directly below their head
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Horses are very good at what and not so good at what?
Very good at detecting movement, not good at focusing clearly on far away objects
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What are the three most sensitive touch areas?
Nose, ears, eyes
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What are three social behaviors of a horse?
- Run in herds
- Pecking order
- Must gain trust
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What are the main functions of the cardiovascular system?
- Deliver oxygen from lungs to body tissues
- Deliver nutrients absorbed in digestive tract to other tissue
- Carry end-products of cellular metabolism to lungs and kidneys for removal from body
- Regulate body temperature
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During exercise - what two sources are used to supply the extra blood required?
- Increased cardiac output
- The redistribution of blood away from less active tissues
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What is the vulva?
exterior opening of repro tract, consists of; labia, clitoris, and vestibule
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What is the vagina?
muscular membrane that communicates vestibule to cervix
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What is the cervix?
Acts as a barrier between vagina and uterus
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What does the uterus include?
Uterine body and uterine horns
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Why is reproduction efficiency in horses lowest of all livestock animals?
- Stress
- Out of Season
- We select for performance, not production
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Wild horse populations reach ________ efficiency while domestic herds reach ______?
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Mare breed when?
longer days of spring and summer
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What is the gestation period of a horse?
11 months
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What is the universal birth date for most breed registries?
Jan 1st
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During the winter season mares are in what?
estrous, minimal hormonal and ovarian activity
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True or False: Spring and summer horses will have multiple estrus cycles?
True
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The 21-23 day time between cycles is called what?
diestrous
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What is the usual lasting time of estrus?
5-7 days
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How do mares know it is spring time?
longer days and pineal gland
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What can be considered the master organ in a stallion?
two testes attached each with epididymus
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What is the vas deferens?
storage tank for sperm cells
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What are the four steps in the ejaculation process?
- Presperm function
- Sperm fraction
- Gel fraction
- Dribble
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