Sometime after 4 million years ago, ancient equid species began trotting across the Bering land bridge.

在 400 万前的某个时候，古老的马科物种开始穿越白令陆桥。

Various ideas have been tossed around in the last 150 years about the African equids' stripes.

在过去的150，于非洲马科动物身上的条纹有各种各样的观点。

Equines are the subfamily of equids that includes modern horses.

马科动物是包现代马在内的马科动物亚科。

And one of the most important likely descendants of Miohippus was an equid that was even better adapted to life on the plains: Parahippus.

Miohippus 最重要的可能后代之一是一种更原生活的马科动物：Parahippus。

Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H.sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents.

牛科动物、马科动物，尤其是犬科动物，都是由智人分工的；猫科动物略有不同，但受宠的原因主要是捕捉啮齿类生物的天性。

The study is in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Various ideas have been tossed around in the last 150 years about the African equids' stripes.

这项研究发表在皇家学会学报 B 期刊上。在过去的 150 ，人们对非洲马的条纹提出了各种不同的看法。

For instance, the eight species of wild equids (horses and their relatives) vary greatly in disposition, even though all eight are genetically so close to each other that they will interbreed and produce healthy (though usually sterile) offspring.

例如，八种野生马科动物（马及其近亲）的性情差异很大，尽管所有八种野生马科动物在基因上非常接近，以至于它们会杂交并产生健康（尽管通常不育）的后代。