The flank is the fleshy part where the hind leg meets the abdomen.
Flank: Where the hind legs and the barrel of the horse meet, specifically the area right behind the rib cage and in front of the stifle joint.
The flank is the fleshy part where the hind leg meets the abdomen.
between the abdomen and the fore-part of its hind legs
The 'flank' is the side of the body.
It's flank, It's proven with horses. When you swing your leg over the horses hide sometimes it will hit the flank. Which will then startle the horse. Also hurt it.
Flank means Side but im not sure if that applies to people.
They are just like our body parts! They have Poll, Crest, Muzzle, Coronet, Hoof, Pastern, Fetlock, Cannon, Hock, Gaskin, Stifle, Flank, Loin, Croup, Withers and Barrel. Horses body parts are in fact basicly what our body parts are!
The flank is the lower area of the torso located between the ribs and the hips. It is a fleshy area on the side of the body.
The flank acts as the section of flesh on the body of a person or an animal between the last rib and the hip; the side. It can also be a cut of meat from the flank of an animal or a lateral part or side; for example, the flank of a mountain.
The flank of a cat is a part on its body. It is the fleshy area of the side between the ribs and hip in cats it has greater depth than in other breeds, causing considerable depth to the body when viewed from the side.
The flank area on a horse begins just above the 'stifle' joint (which is located on the upper hind leg and towards the front) and extends upward toward the backbone. It is easily recognizable because the hair growth there runs in the opposite direction from the rest of the horse's coat, and is also near the area where a horse's reproductive organs (mare's udder or stallion's sheath and scrotum) are located. See the related link below for a labelled diagram on the parts of a horse.
Comes from the fact that the soldiers aimed at the horse's flank in calvalry times * Comes from the fact that horses suffering from emphysema, in the age of cavalry, were considered as "good for nothing"
Horses actually have 205 bones in their body.
Horses don't have bellybuttons.