Equestrian News:
Researchers examined lung tissue from 95 racehorses that had actively raced or trained before their deaths and found a majority had inflammatory airway disease (IAD). Previous research suggested the disease occurs in up to half of equine athletes. The first of its kind study suggests even racehorses without respiratory signs could have IAD....
Just as strep throat can run rampant in elementary schools, strangles, the strep throat of horses, caused by a different Streptococcus bacterium, is highly contagious. Veterinarians have an important role to play not only in treating the disease, but also in ensuring that infected horses are kept away from other animals until they have fully recovered from the illness....
An allergen microchip can be used to identify allergic sensitization in horses. Our best friends are more like us than we perhaps thought – even in terms of their immune system, explains lead author of the study....
New research overturns a long-held assumption that Przewalskis horses, native to the Eurasian steppes, are the last wild horse species on Earth....
While it is largely believed that horses simply evolved with fewer digits, researchers pose a new theory that suggests remnants of all five toes are still present within the hooves of the horse....
Why are some hybrids viable and others not It is known that this depends on the father species and the mother species. New research in two related frog species shows the influence of mother and father species: one hybrid is viable, the other hybrid dies in early stages of development....