Are arabian horses endangered?why or why not.?
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No, they aren't endangered as there are tons of them.  I'm not sure where you live, but where I am there are tons of them.  I've personally owned 3 and I am about to buy another.
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First thing you have to realise is that all mules are NOT sterile. Most mules certainly are, but there have been numerous authenticated accounts of mules giving birth to perfectly healthy foals.\n\nNext thing to do is to ignore those people saying that it is because of different or uneven chromosome numbers or because they are different species. Numerous  species are perfectly interfertile despite being far more distantly related than horses and donkeys and having far more widely differing chromosomes numbers. \n\nHorses and donkeys are simply different members of the same genus. Cattle and bison on the other hand produce perfectly fertile calves and are members of DIFFERENT genera. That makes them about as closely related as humans and chimps. They also differ by 3 chromosome pairs IIRC, as opposed to the single pair difference between horses and mules.\n\nSo why are mules sterile? \n\nThat’s pretty complicated and to be quite honest we still don’t know the whole story. The basic problem is that after the ancestors of donkeys and horses split the chromosomes of BOTH species fused and then those fused chromosomes re-split. That has led to a situation where the information originally carried on a single chromosome in the ancestral species is now found on 2 different chromosomes in mules and 2 totally unrelated chromosomes in horses.\n\nNormally a developing foal embryo would receive two copies of each piece of genetic information: one from the mother and one from the father. In the case of a mule foal it receives a random number of copies. It will receive three copies of some pieces of information: 2 from the mule parent and one from the horse/donkey parent, or it will receive only a single copy from the horse/donkey parent.\n\nBecause of that mismatch of genetic material the embryo has a hard time developing. Some traits it will lack sufficient information for since it has only half the required genetic information, while other traits will be overdeveloped because there are 3 or more genes where there should be only two. All mules will get pregnant if mated, but the embryo develops for just a few days and then dies because it lacks the correct genetic instruction to develop further.\n\nAs for why some mules, maybe one in a thousand, are fertile, nobody is quite sure.
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Yay for you for knowing about Silky Sullivan first off. He was one of the greatest horses of our time and is often over looked. I couldn't find anything about this filly however. But just from experience on a breeding farm, she was probably used as a broodmare after her racing days were over.
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Thoroughbred racing blood: the foundation sires of that are the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Barb and the Byerley Turk (I think- who was probably also an Arab), but those aren't breeds. The Polish Arabs are very beautiful, but...\nThe only things that sound similar is Knabstrup (but those aren't wildly beautiful), Lusitano (but not Arabian) or Friesian (Dutch warmblood, ditto on not Arab)\nI'll keep thinking. But the Russian Orloffs are gorgeous too. Maybe I'm spacing
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I don't really think they're essential to the global eco-system. If you could magically turn all deserts into plains or something, there are certain animals that you would drive to extinction, but I don't think the Earth would suffer because of it..... BUT humans would then populate vast areas (like the Sahara) that were previously uninhabitable, and pollute the Earth even more... so if you look at it that way, they're important because they limit human expansion.
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When wild horses grow too much hoof, they head for rocky ground to chafe it away.\n\nThink about it.
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Barbaro, a Arabian bred horse.
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Cloning has become a widely debated issue in the media since 1996, when a group of Scottish scientists led by Ian Wilmut cloned Dolly, a sheep that was the first clone of an adult mammal. The cloning process involves destroying the nucleus of an egg cell of the animal that will carry the clone and injecting a donor nucleus from the individual to be cloned into that egg cell. The resulting egg thus has a nucleus from the donor animal (which may be an endangered animal) and can develop into an animal that has the same genetic makeup as the donor, thus making the resulting offspring a clone.\n\nSince Dolly's appearance, a wide variety of uses for mammalian cloning have been proposed, including using cloned animals to produce superior livestock and to simplify the process of creating transgenic animals (genetically modified animals that can make human proteins in their milk, for example). Several groups have suggested cloning endangered or recently extinct species. A company called Advanced Cell Technology used a cow named Bessie to clone an Asian gaur, an endangered oxlike animal native to India and Burma (the cloned gaur died of an ordinary disease two days after his birth). Scientists also hope to move on to cloning extinct animals, perhaps starting with the cloning of the now-extinct bucardo mountain goat from Spain; scientists froze some tissue from the last living animal before the species became extinct.\n\nCloning endangered and extinct species has raised heated debate in the scientific community and beyond. On the one hand, many say it may offer us an opportunity to protect animals such as the giant panda from extinction so that our descendants will be able to see the beauty of these creatures. Some claim that cloning may help us bring back recently extinct species. Still others just want to have an opportunity to see a mammoth. (By the way, cloning mammoths from tissues frozen in Siberian permafrost is considered impossible with the current techniques because their DNA has become fragmented. In addition, scientists do not think that fossilized species such as dinosaurs can be cloned.) Indeed, if successful cloning of an endangered or recently extinct species is possible, we may be able to boost the populations of these animals.\n\nOn the other hand, cloned populations consist of genetically identical individuals, leading to high susceptibility to many diseases and slow adaptation to the environment. In addition, some argue that introducing extinct species back into the wild may upset the natural balance and have disastrous effects on the populations of other species. Such concerns are probably not as relevant with recently extinct species, where their extinction has usually been caused by human interventions, such as destruction of habitats and hunting. We do have to consider such issues when we start talking about bringing back mammoths, but the cloning of long-extinct species is still only a theoretical possibility. Concerns remain, however, that endangered and recently extinct species could be brought back to a world where their habitats no longer exist, and they will only be able to survive in zoos.\n\nAnother concern voiced by animal conservationists is that cloning endangered species would be viewed by the public (and governments) as an alternative to the breeding and habitat-protection programs already in place. Such possibilities are especially alarming as cloning techniques become cheaper and may be viewed as a less costly alternative to the more traditional means of protecting endangered species. Of course, cloning cannot serve as a substitute for such programs, because cloned animals lack the genetic diversity that is crucial to survival, and they still need habitats to live in.\n\nAs you can see, cloning is far from being able to serve as a Noah's Ark that would save all endangered species from extinction, but together with habitat protection and breeding programs, it may help some endangered and rece
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correct.\n\n      they are barely a concern.     they are folly\n \n             thank you for your very relevant question.\n\nTHERE ARE MANY, MANY VERY, VERY BIG ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WHICH ARE CAUSING THE PROBABLE EXTINCTION OF OUR SPECIES WHICH ARE NOT GETTING TAKEN AS SERIOUSLY.
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It would be cruel to NOT let them do that. Thats what they WANT to do. Thats what they LIVE for. And everyone of them WANTS to be the BEST.\nI bought a Thouroghbred who retired and there was no way I could keep that horse from wanting to run and run. This is instinct to them.
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AQHA members I believe have the ability to look up horses...or you can call the AQHA with the registered name and get info. Unless that has changed - I did that and you can get progeny reports and other info online. APHA I'm not sure - doesn't hurt to call or email the registry with the horse's name and ask. I'm not sure if it's been changed or not - with more celebrities getting those breeds it might change for privacy reasons. \nTB doesn't give out info even the last owner. They can tell you if a mare if she's had a foal reported (indicating she's alive) but no owner contact info.
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Horses have hair.  Depending on the climate, an Arabian horse will grow a substantial winter coat.\n\nIf you compare an Arabian living in California, with one living in Montana, you can visibly see the difference in their winter coats.
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Good thing, yes.  But on the endangered species list.  There are lots of fundamentalists who would seek to tie the two pretty closely together.
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I know the zoo in Washington D.C. only keeps endangered animals. The idea is that if they go extinct in the wild they can be reintroduced into the wild from the few remaining animals in zoos.
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Yes, but they are indeed a rare breed.\nSad admission from an Amercican who loves his country.\nWe are too indulgent and spoiled.
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Answer provided by www.qtsaver.com\namur leopards is on a current endangered list because there are fewer than 50 leopards left in the wild.
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I think it is not that BArbaro can't live, it is that he is worthless now for his purpose to race, so his owner's will have him put down, so they can invest their money on another horse that IS able to race and make them money.\n\nThey perhaps will use him to have another horse with if they can find a suitable mare for him, at least he is good for fathering a good racing horse, we hope, for his sake.\n\nYes, a horses leg can heal like any other animal's bones, but keeping him immobilized for healing to occur is costly.