News tagged with wild horses
Study solves mystery of horse domestication
New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research was ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Unravelling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions
Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals (megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth?
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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Humans and climate contributed to extinctions of large ice-age mammals, study finds
the woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison, and musk ox -- is the subject of a study by an international group of scientists investigating how climate fluctuations and human activity ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Ancient wild horses help unlock past
An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the lack of genetic diversity in modern stallions is the result of the domestication process.
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Przewalski's wild horses gallop back to life
Their galloping stocky, sandy-brown silhouettes inspired dreamy pre-historic cave paintings.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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US judge denies bid to block NV mustang roundups
(AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Wild Iberian horses contributed to the origin of the current Iberian domestic stock
Some modern horses of Iberian origin are descendants from wild horses from the Early Iberian Neolithic, dated around 6,200 years ago. Ancient lineages are mainly represented in the Lusitano group C, constituted ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket -- or all your horses on one pasture
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009-2010 was particularly severe. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski's horse population crashed dramatically. ...
Dec 29, 2011 |
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The short goodbye: Weaning foals
It is widely believed that being born is about the most stressful thing that can happen to anybody. But being weaned cannot be too far behind it in the list of traumatic experiences. Most humans come to terms with it eventually ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Catching camels in the Gobi
In Oct. 2011 Professor Chris Walzer and Dr. Gabrielle Stalder, veterinary scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the Veterinary Science University, Vienna, successfully attached GPS satellite collars ...
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Public divided over how to manage invasive animal and plant species on Cumberland Island
Visitors to Cumberland Island flock to the barrier island to see its famed feral horses, likely unaware of the damage the wild animals can inflict on the seashore’s ecosystem. Park managers are often in a quandary over ...
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Nevada wild-horse roundup death toll rises
(AP) -- Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.
Mar 20, 2010 |
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Training the trainers: How to minimize stress when horses are first ridden
The horse was domesticated many thousands of years ago and has been hugely important in the development of human civilization. It is hard to overstate its role in agriculture, in transport and communications and even in ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Federal agency spurs people to adopt wild horses
(AP) -- A federal agency is hoping older wild mustangs rounded up from the range will find new homes with a program that will offer stipends to owners who adopt them.
Apr 24, 2009 |
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