Idk how you managed to type the words “and went extinct in americas ~10,000 years ago” without having a single fucking thought about them, genuinely impressive
Horses went extinct naturally in the Americas thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists, after which their previous ecosystems continued adapting to life without them, then we introduced distantly related domesticated animals to those ecosystems, causing harm to the native species that now have to compete with them. They don’t belong here in the wild, it’s our fault that they are, fixing that would be a good thing.
There are pretty strong theories that over hunting caused the extinction of many mega fauana at the end of the last ice age. Though obviously, the climate change caused disruptions that would allowed our ancestors to push many species over the edge.
And sure, modern domestic horses would be different than their wild ancestors, as they would have been less adapted to their new environment, and that can pose problems for the horses themselves. But 10,000 years is hardly time for ecosystems to adapted without them, in fact, eco systems are dying because we have killed off all the large herbivores. Have a video to explain things far better than i can
There are native north american large herbivores we can work on repopulating, horses aren’t one of them. 10,000 is plenty of time for an ecosystem to change in response to the absence of a large species.
Depends on your definition of large, still enough of a reason not to allow a feral population of domesticated horses to continue existing. We don’t need horses in the wild here, they don’t belong here and make life harder for species that do, it’s not complicated.
Horses quite literally evolved in the americas migrated to asia and went extinct in americas ~10,000 years ago.
Idk how you managed to type the words “and went extinct in americas ~10,000 years ago” without having a single fucking thought about them, genuinely impressive
What?
Horses went extinct naturally in the Americas thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists, after which their previous ecosystems continued adapting to life without them, then we introduced distantly related domesticated animals to those ecosystems, causing harm to the native species that now have to compete with them. They don’t belong here in the wild, it’s our fault that they are, fixing that would be a good thing.
There are pretty strong theories that over hunting caused the extinction of many mega fauana at the end of the last ice age. Though obviously, the climate change caused disruptions that would allowed our ancestors to push many species over the edge.
And sure, modern domestic horses would be different than their wild ancestors, as they would have been less adapted to their new environment, and that can pose problems for the horses themselves. But 10,000 years is hardly time for ecosystems to adapted without them, in fact, eco systems are dying because we have killed off all the large herbivores. Have a video to explain things far better than i can
There are native north american large herbivores we can work on repopulating, horses aren’t one of them. 10,000 is plenty of time for an ecosystem to change in response to the absence of a large species.
Other than Bisons, there isnt any other large native species that thrive in the environment horses do.
Depends on your definition of large, still enough of a reason not to allow a feral population of domesticated horses to continue existing. We don’t need horses in the wild here, they don’t belong here and make life harder for species that do, it’s not complicated.