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Wild Horse History
Last night I was thinking about a great book I read many years ago, most of us are familiar with the, Clan of The Cave Bears, I love that book and I was thinking about the main character, a women, who in her travels came upon a horse. She was camped out along a rocky elevated area, no doubt for protection, and decided to stay for a while. This beautiful white horse was off in the distance, grazing in a valley, as time went by, the horse came closer and closer. As much time past they would spend days in the fields and walk side by side.
One day, she needed to lift something to heavy to carry a great distance back to her camp, so she put the load on her horses back. What a great discovery, a horse helping the human. Then one day she worked with him until he allowed her to ride on his back. This relationship was a friendship that grew with every passing day. They helped each other and became a family.
This made me think about horses and how they changed history, at one time wild horses were abundant and covered the land grazing and running together, ah freedom must of been a great feeling for these wonder animals. Our modern horses are zebras and asses and they belong to the genus of Equus,
Fossil records show that they go back 4 million years in North America. Crossing land bridges they moved around the globe to migrate. Mostly they spread to Asia, Africa and Europe. The mustangs were from the wild west of America, zebras from Kenya, Haflingers of Austria and the awesome Arabians. They all come from the same family.
Domesticated horses were introduced into North America beginning the Spanish Conquest, and the horse escaped and spread through all of the American Great Plains, If any exist today they are considered feral, even when they were domesticated, they still had their wild streak.
It always pains me to see a horse live in a small corral with a small roof shed. They can't run or play, in my opinion, these horses to me are being abused. The larger land owners put blankets over their backs to keep them warm when they are out in cold weather, and they have to freedom of space to run and play. One day while driving through a mountain pass I came to a clearing with a farm off into the distance. I pulled over to the side of the road to watch these beautiful horses chasing each other and playing and then they joined together face to face, and it seems they have special relationships with each other. Their young stay close to their mothers and they bond in the same way humans do.
There are over 400 different breed of horse, from pulling carts, to helping at the farm, as well as, racing horses, but all horses are grazers. Wild horses gather in groups, they all protect the young and if left to roam freely, they will remain feral. A stallion is a male, and usually is the leader of the group, the mare is the female. The young male is a colt, when they age to about two years old the stallion will drive the colt away. They run in a pack of 4 to 20 together. The lone colt will roam until he finds his own group of females.
Animals of any kind, have a need to connect, love, relationships, and understanding. Most humans see animals as a pet, they own and enslaved them. We have a lot of evolving to do as a human species, to be kind to the ocean mammals as well as all animals on Earth. We don't own anything, we are stewards, we don't own our children, animals or any life form, we surely don't own a tree or a monkey? But, horses are free spirits and that is their history.
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One day, she needed to lift something to heavy to carry a great distance back to her camp, so she put the load on her horses back. What a great discovery, a horse helping the human. Then one day she worked with him until he allowed her to ride on his back. This relationship was a friendship that grew with every passing day. They helped each other and became a family.
This made me think about horses and how they changed history, at one time wild horses were abundant and covered the land grazing and running together, ah freedom must of been a great feeling for these wonder animals. Our modern horses are zebras and asses and they belong to the genus of Equus,
Fossil records show that they go back 4 million years in North America. Crossing land bridges they moved around the globe to migrate. Mostly they spread to Asia, Africa and Europe. The mustangs were from the wild west of America, zebras from Kenya, Haflingers of Austria and the awesome Arabians. They all come from the same family.
Domesticated horses were introduced into North America beginning the Spanish Conquest, and the horse escaped and spread through all of the American Great Plains, If any exist today they are considered feral, even when they were domesticated, they still had their wild streak.
It always pains me to see a horse live in a small corral with a small roof shed. They can't run or play, in my opinion, these horses to me are being abused. The larger land owners put blankets over their backs to keep them warm when they are out in cold weather, and they have to freedom of space to run and play. One day while driving through a mountain pass I came to a clearing with a farm off into the distance. I pulled over to the side of the road to watch these beautiful horses chasing each other and playing and then they joined together face to face, and it seems they have special relationships with each other. Their young stay close to their mothers and they bond in the same way humans do.
There are over 400 different breed of horse, from pulling carts, to helping at the farm, as well as, racing horses, but all horses are grazers. Wild horses gather in groups, they all protect the young and if left to roam freely, they will remain feral. A stallion is a male, and usually is the leader of the group, the mare is the female. The young male is a colt, when they age to about two years old the stallion will drive the colt away. They run in a pack of 4 to 20 together. The lone colt will roam until he finds his own group of females.
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Animals of any kind, have a need to connect, love, relationships, and understanding. Most humans see animals as a pet, they own and enslaved them. We have a lot of evolving to do as a human species, to be kind to the ocean mammals as well as all animals on Earth. We don't own anything, we are stewards, we don't own our children, animals or any life form, we surely don't own a tree or a monkey? But, horses are free spirits and that is their history.
http://www.darlenesabella.blogspot.com/
The copyright to this article is owned by Darlene Sabella. Permission to republish this article in print or online must be granted by the author in writing. (you can, however, freely use the opening introduction and photo with a link to the article here on My Smashing Magazine to read the remainder of the article.)
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