i hope one day to own a stable of at least 10 race horses.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The horse (\"Equus ferus caballus\") is one of two extant subspecies of \"Equus ferus\". It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55\u00a0million years from a small multi-toed creature, \"Eohippus\", into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies \"caballus\" are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses' anatomy enables them to make use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horse tending to sleep significantly more than adults.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really like horses.  I like how they've evolved from a small creature to a surprisingly large one."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Were they really small? Thats interesting, I have always imagined horses as these huge creatures."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, they were a small creature instead of the large one we have now.  They were also multi-toed originally."}, {"role": "user", "content": "They had toes???"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yup.  Technically they still have toes, or rather a single toe covered by a hoof."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, I didn't realize that constituted as a toe! Lol! What other strange horse facts do you know?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well let's see.  There are feral populations of \"domesticated\" horses that are the same subspecies as the domesticated kind, but not technically wild horses."}, {"role": "user", "content": "As in the ones people keep in barns for riding?"}]