Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Do horses have identical twins?

Surviving identical twins have never been reported in horses.

Horses have a difficult enough time carrying fraternal twins to term. Identical twins share a placenta, and thus do not get enough nutrition. (In fact, routine production of identical twins only occurs in humans and one species of armadillo). All horse twins are fraternal (if they survive).


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