Horses

I think this may become a common complaint over the course of this semester, but...

Horses are SO WEIRD.

There are so many things about their anatomy that seem like design flaws. And then, the horse people had to go and give everything weird names.

For an example of a design flaw, their eustacian tube (between the middle ear and the mouth... so, like if a kid has tubes in their ears, it's keeping this open) dilates out and makes this huge pouch along the back of their head. If they get an ear infection, this pouch tends to get infected and fill with pus... and can lead to significant nerve damage, because there are lots of important nerves there. And, nobody has any good reason for this pouch to exist.

As to weird names... They call what amounts to our wrist the knee. And they have fetlocks and pasterns and coffin joints.

Also, they basically walk on the tip of their middle finger.

Crazy beasts!