Thread: info on horses

If you want to get really technical, the Americas did have native horses but the Native Americans ate them all (along with other prehistoric life) shortly after coming over the land bridge.

Man can alter the species, but making it better is up for debate. Without man to support the breed, most would collapse and become adapted to the environment or die. Bringing breeds from other lands may not suit them well at all. Draft breeds are good in cold weather but heat would hurt them (as would subsisting on their own because the large size requires more nutrition, which they may not be able to get from grass alone); Arabians are good in heat and on sand, but put them in rocky cold areas and they will fail.

I speak of the good breeders compared to pure nature. BYB's don't help and may harm natural (micro) evolution. BYB=Back yard breeders. Awe he is so cute, I want to breed him.
Again when bringing horses from other countries I meant to like climates. Draft horse from the cold region of Europe would not do well in the deserts of Arizona or California.

Horses were eaten into extinction in the US? I didn't know that. My first thought was the buffalo would be easier to over hunt, but then when trying to kill it with arrows and spears, it would take a long time. Not until the big guns did it become easy to kill the buffalo.