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Paragraph 2 needs work

Hi folks,

I’m new to the Wikipedia community, and I’m no expert when it comes to horses. It’s probably best that I can’t edit the article. However, somebody with writing chops should grab a red pen and get to work. Here’s a quick critique — hopefully someone more familiar with the subject matter will take them into consideration and revise appropriately. (Or let me know if I should take a crack at it... this is my first “talk,” I’m not quite sure if criticism without contribution is welcome).

Brief comments on p2: It’s a list of popular trivia. However, it begins with what appears to be a classic Topic Sentence — the topic being horse anatomy. The following sentence walks from anatomy to instincts. Then procreation, and then domesticated youth development, and finally lifespan. I can see where the contributors may have sought to tell the “story” of horses, but I believe it’s disorganized and disconnected from p1 and p3. Perhaps most problematic is that the article’s actual anatomy section just links out to other Equine articles.

Suggestions:

1 (easiest but not best): Add a topic sentence that prepares the reader for a litany of trivia.

2 (half and half): Suggestion 1 plus move below p3.

3 (major edit and my preference): Since the “anatomy” section has no substance anyway, replace the entirety of p2 with the content from the anatomy section, find a better home for the other trivia currently stuff into the p2 grab bag, and remove the anatomy section (since its contents would now be in the main article).

Thank you for your consideration and contributions.

-Mark

...here’s the current text of p2:

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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. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.

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horse can go a long way for the same hay they eat .How long the days are 19 or 33 days — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.161.114.105 (talk) 22:47, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Horse population.

4 Interactions with humans. 2008 total horse population 59m. 33m N&S America, 14m Asia, 6m Europe, 6m (balance) Africa & Oceania.

4.2 Work. 100m working horses only. Africa population 27m. AnnaComnemna (talk) 14:44, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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69.49.81.62 (talk) 19:19, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

they eat polar baraes