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Why the long face? Experts provide a new theory for why larger mammals tend to have longer faces

  • Written by Vera Weisbecker, Associate Professor, Flinders University
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A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, “why the long face”? It’s one of the oldest puns in the book, and there’s no shortage of entertaining answers.

With our new review we add our own scientific explanation: horses, and many other large mammals, have long faces simply because they can afford to.

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