Gurpuneet Kaur

When you visit a doctor for your routine check-up, you might have noticed they first measure the height and weight in a standard measuring unit, ever wondered why?

It is often to measure your growth. Likewise, measuring a pony or horse's height and weight is necessary to ensure it is growing too.

The horse is a domesticated hoofed animal that only has one toe. The size of the horse varies according to its age. A foal or pony is a young horse, younger than one year of age.

Pony or ponies is also used for a yearling, that is a horse between the age of one and two years. Colt is used for male horses younger than four years.

Likewise, a female horse under the age of four is called a filly. While a female horse older than four years is called a mare, a stallion or gelding is an old male horse over four years.

Since a foal is the youngest of all, it is also the smallest in size too. Similarly, older horses are healthy, taller, and measure longer in length.

Wondering how to measure your pony or horse's weight, height, and body length? While your pony or horse's height and body length can be measured in hands, get a standard measuring tape or measuring stick.

For an accurate measurement, either measured in hands or in the metric system, ensure your pony or horse is standing on level ground and measure its height from the ground to the highest point of the horse's withers, whereas your horse's body length is measured from its nose to tail.

A hand is the standard unit of measurement for measuring horse height, length, and height measurements. Hands can be converted into the unit of measurement based on the common metric system.

One hand equals 4 in (10.1 cm).

When you measure your horse which one is a taller horse, one that is 14 hands high or the one 17 hands high? Scroll to the article to get your questions answered!

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Like the human body is organized into organs, tissues, and cells, insects have quite similar anatomy and physiology to that of a human being.

According to science, humans and insects are classified as different species of animals; thus, they are obviously have similarities as well as differences. Read on to explore more about the science of wildlife creatures, how they are similar, and how they differ.

The circulatory system varies between humans and insects, while insects have an open circulatory system with blood-like fluid plasma called hemolymph flowing through the body cavity, humans have a closed circulatory system having vertebrate blood flowing through blood vessels, veins, and arteries.

Hemolymph is the insect's blood, made up of only 10% blood cells while the other 90% comprises plasma, which contains amino acids, carbohydrates, ions, fats or lipids, hormones, and pigments that are rarely colored.

In contrast, vertebrate blood contains red blood cells and because of the presence of red blood cells, the human blood is red, whereas the insect's blood is yellow or green.

Likewise, insects do have heart, but an insect's heart does not have chambers like human hearts.

Also, human hearts, which is almost the size of a fist, is several times larger than an insect's body size.

Not just the heart, but several of our organs exceed the size of an insect's body.

Do you wonder how such large organs can fit into an insect? While insects have a heart, it does not mean that it has a heart just like you.

An insect's heart has quite different internal structure and functions; neither does it have chambers nor does it pump blood through blood vessels, veins, or arteries, since insect blood flows throughout the body cavity, unlike vertebrates.

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If you had wings or feathers, wouldn't you wish you could fly?

Even though birds have wings and feathers, that does not mean all bird breeds can fly or soar through the air. There are 60 species of birds that are not capable of flight, and some of them are the Cassowary, Emu, Kiwi, Ostrich, Penguin, and Rhea.

Have you ever wondered if a chicken can fly? Continue reading this article to know a chicken's flying ability!

Chickens are widely domesticated throughout the world. These domesticated birds are a subspecies of the Gray or Red Jungle Fowl.

While a male chicken is called a rooster or cock, a female chicken is referred to as a hen. A chicken is the most common bird and has feathers and wings, but you may not find it flying as often as a pigeon. Since chickens are domesticated birds, who would want their petted bird to fly away?

While the noble descendant, gray or red jungle fowl, perches or roosts in trees and is well-adapted to soar and glide to escape its predators, the chicken is a domesticated bird often confined to its owner's backyard or enclosed area like a coop. There are several chicken breeds classified either as heavy breeds or as lighter breeds.

You might wonder if your chicken will be able to fly or not? To be precise, yes, chickens are capable of flying, but not very well.

You might know that the heavier the weight, the more troublesome it will be for the species to lift itself and soar through the air. Likewise, heavier breeds find it challenging to overcome their weight and raise themselves off the ground. Therefore, chickens are neither flying birds nor flightless birds.

If provided a free range, an average chicken can fly as high as 10 ft (3 m) for an average distance of 50 ft (15 m). Different chicken breeds are known to fly at different altitudes for varying distances.

You might not worry about the heavy breeds flying or jumping over your fence, but others will be able to jump or fly across a 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) high fence.

Since some chicken, breeds can make it over an average fence, and wing clipping the primary flight feathers is a precautionary measure not to let go of backyard chicken.

Curious to more about your chicken's ability to fly and wing clipping? Read on!

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Is glancing at the sky your favorite pass time and wondering about the creatures flying through the air?

The Ruppell's Griffon Vulture (Gyps Rueppellii) is the highest flying bird that can reach up to the height of 37073.5 ft (11300 m). Do you wonder what other birds can reach high altitudes above the clouds?

An eagle is a very large predatory bird with a huge wingspan. Eagles are apex predators and are considered raptors or birds of prey.

An eagle often refers to approximately 60 species of birds having powerful feet with talons or hooked claws and heavy beaks.

Eagles are classified into the following four groups: fish eagles which prey upon fish; harpy eagles that inhabit tropical forests; snake eagles that feed on various reptiles; and booted eagles that hunt and eat small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Bald Eagles are the most common species and are often simply referred as an eagle. They belong to the group of fish eagles and have two subspecies, the Northern Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis) and the Southern Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus). Bald Eagles have a distinctive white-feathered head which gives them their name.

Eagles often fly at high altitudes ranging between 10000-20000 ft (3048-6096 m). Surprisingly, they can also soar above the clouds to avoid extreme weather and rains. Isn't it amazing how eagles can breathe at high altitudes?

Different subspecies of eagles have varying flight speeds and soar at different heights or altitudes. Eagles have considerable strength, energy, and speed to fly higher and for more extended periods of time. When an eagle grows older, its eyesight and the power of its wing muscles deteriorate!

What do you do when you grow weak? You would probably call your doctor and take medicines until you felt better. Likewise, an eagle soars to the sun to rejuvenate its strength.

The sunlight helps the eagle's old feathers and the mist hindering its eyesight. Surprising, isn't it? Read on to decipher the speeds of various eagles.

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