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minus-squaregibmiser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhat preditor was so fast horses had to evolve to that extent??
minus-squarePyroVK@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoBig cat. You’re aware of the cheetah? Just picture that but not in Africa
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou know what really caught me up: where are horses native to?
minus-squarePyroVK@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoPBS Eons has a couple good videos on both horse evolution and domestication.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt’s just a damn good series in general as well
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThere are wild horses on the Mongolian steppes. All other horses are domesticated. Even the free horses in USA and Australia are descendants of domesticated horses.
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoYou’re right! But also, horses were native to North America but they went extinct 10,000 years ago and weren’t introduced until much more recently.
minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSaber toothed tigers and shit
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSaber toothed shit is a serious reason
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHuman. Not for food, but because they always choose to breed on the Porcshe over the Toyota Hilux for racing.
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoThe wording here makes it sound like we hunted horses for the specific purpose of having sex on them, and honestly, I’d probably be running as fast as a car if that kept happening to me too!
minus-squareÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoUs. They basically tried to beat pursuit predation by outrunning the distance humans will be willing to track over. It did not work, they went extinct in North America because of how much it did not work.
minus-squareChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoLarge predatory flightless birds probably didn’t help either.
What preditor was so fast horses had to evolve to that extent??
Big cat. You’re aware of the cheetah? Just picture that but not in Africa
You know what really caught me up: where are horses native to?
PBS Eons has a couple good videos on both horse evolution and domestication.
It’s just a damn good series in general as well
There are wild horses on the Mongolian steppes.
All other horses are domesticated. Even the free horses in USA and Australia are descendants of domesticated horses.
You’re right! But also, horses were native to North America but they went extinct 10,000 years ago and weren’t introduced until much more recently.
Saber toothed tigers and shit
Saber toothed shit is a serious reason
Human. Not for food, but because they always choose to breed on the Porcshe over the Toyota Hilux for racing.
The wording here makes it sound like we hunted horses for the specific purpose of having sex on them, and honestly, I’d probably be running as fast as a car if that kept happening to me too!
Us. They basically tried to beat pursuit predation by outrunning the distance humans will be willing to track over.
It did not work, they went extinct in North America because of how much it did not work.
Large predatory flightless birds probably didn’t help either.
Ah, sweet home Caelid