Wikijunior:Life/Today/Books and horses

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Scientists call every plant and animal by its genus and species name, so an ordinary horse is called an
Equus caballus.

In the library	Contains		Linnaeus' groups	Example name	The names might look strange. That's because they are Latin names.
Adults' or children's	Children's books		Kingdom	Animalia	Animals
Fiction or non-fiction	Non-fiction		Class	Mammalia	Animals that feed their young with their milk.
Subject	Books on transport		Order	Perissodactyla	This means animals having hooves made from an odd number of toes. A horse has hooves. Each one is made from a single toe.
Special subject	Books on trains		Genus	Equus	For the horse, its genus name is Equus, meaning any sort of horse.
Book	High-speed Trains		Species	Caballus	Caballus means an ordinary horse.