Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Great Article

Dear Readers,
Here's an excellent article with cool photos of Nevada's wild horses. Click here NEVADA MAGAZINE and if you think you'll ever do a report about mustangs, this is an article to save.
It has up-to-the-minute facts and some great information about the history of the horse. So many people insist that all of the wild horses are descended from tame horses which have gone feral, but check this out:

"According to Jay Kirkpatrick, director of the Science and Conservation Center in Billings, Montana, ancestors of modern horses started evolving in North America about four million years ago. The most recent ancestor to exist on the continent, Equus lambei, went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Kirkpatrick goes on to say DNA analysis shows that this extinct species is the genetic equivalent of the modern horse that was reintroduced into North America in the 1500s by Spanish explorers, and that modern horses, E. caballus, could have evolved nowhere else but North America. Kirkpatrick’s findings point to wild horses deserving consideration as indigenous, not feral—as common belief for more than a century suggests—animals."

Love it!!!
Talk with you soon,
Terri

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