Salaxalan Horse

Salaxalan Horses (referred to simply as Horses) are a herbivorous quadrupedal species from the planet Salaxala. A product of convergent evolution, they look exactly like Earth horses and also display the same behaviours.

Cultural significance
Horses are domesticated and employed as mounts on Salaxala, although it seems that the multi-legged Salaxalans experience difficulty riding them, and prefer to build robots with only two legs, in part to facilitate the robots' horse-riding ability.

It appears that the Salaxalans have considerable appreciation for this animal, as they believe that "people, and indeed things, looked more sincere on a horse".

Appearances

 * Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams (1987)