Horses can't breathe through their mouths
k s swigart
> They left out the ping pong balls shoved up the horses
> nose. I have heard that was one way they killed horses.
> Not sure why that would work because a horse can breathe
> through their mouth.
No they can't.
From:
http://www.thehorse.com/pdf/factsheets/upper-airway/upper-airway.pdf
"The horse does not breathe through its mouth and nose like we do. The horse
only breathes through
its nostrils. The nasal passages in the horse are separated from the oral
(mouth) cavity. Horses only
breathe through their mouths if they have an injury or abnormality to the soft
palate (the structure
that separates the mouth from the nasal passages)."
kat
Orange County, Calif.
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