Glossary
A
- acrobatics
- - Physical tricks
- affection
- - Friendliness or care
- aggressive
- - Forceful, violent or hostile
B
- breed
- - Animals with common ancestors that have specific traits
C
- colt
- - young male horse up to four years of age
- Conestoga
- - A type of wagon used in the 1800s
D
- domesticated
- - any animal that does not provide its own food, is cared for by humans
- dominant
- - In charge, powerful
E
- evidence
- - A body of facts that prove something
F
- feral
- - wild animals descended from domesticated animals
- filly
- - young female horse up to four years of age
- foal
- - Baby horse
G
- governed
- - To be in charge of
- grazed
- - To eat grass and plants from the ground
H
- habitats
- - Places where an animal lives
- hands
- - unit for measuring a horse's height, equal to four inches
I
- instinctively
- - Knows without being taught
- isolated
- - left alone, without companionship
L
- land bridges
- - Connection between two land masses - sometimes created by ice
M
- mares
- - Female horses
- migrating
- - When an animal moves from one habitat area to another - sometimes a seasonal activity
- mimic
- - copy
O
- offspring
- - Babies or children
- oxen
- - Plural of ox - large animals similar to a cow
P
- pioneers
- - People who traveled the Oregon Trail in the 1800s
- prairies
- - grassland in the middle portion of the United States
- predators
- - Animals that hunt other animals for food
S
- species
- - a classification of living things having similar attributes, that can have offspring of the same species
- stallion
- - Male horses
U
- ungulate
- - Mammals with hooves
W
- withers
- - the place on a horse where the neck meets the back
