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  • Horse (Non) Sense

    11/19/2003 8:38:24 AM PST · by Copernicus · 14 replies · 150+ views
    Field &Stream ^ | November 2003 | Thomas McIntyre
    Horse (Non)Sense Thomas McIntyre Wild Horses is an oxymoron. Wild equines did evolve in the Western Hemisphere, but they also started going extinct here millions of years ago...... These feral horses and donkeys are about as wild as stray cats and park pigeons. Like many feral animals, they are whizzes at exploiting newfound habitats........ And predators have never represented a threat: In the early 1800s, when it was seemingly possible to walk(rather briskly, to be sure) on the backs of wolves and grizzly bears from the Mississippi to the Pacific, feral horses were estimated to number 2 million................. Then in...