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)