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Governor Swill wrote:
On Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:11:06 -0600, Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> pretending to be Spammy, posted some news:
Governor Swill wrote:
On Thu, 3 Sep 2026 22:56:23 -0600, Gronk wrote:
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Kevin D. Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation
wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
Oddly enough, they're rounding up wild mustangs and selling them
for slaughter.
Technically, horses are an invasive species.
They're an invasive species in Asia and Europe.
Hmmm. Horses evolved over there
Horses did evolve in Eurasia but they are not originally *from*
Eurasia. That is, they are not indigenous to the continent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_horse
so it might depend if you're thinking of a (sub)species
From your above linked article:
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The horse family Equidae evolved in North America, with the genus
Equus appearing on the continent during the Pliocene (5.3-2.6 million
years ago).
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And those are not the modern horse Europeans brought over.
Also from Wikipedia:
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The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a
small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large single-toed animal
of today, originally in North America.
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse>
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PS: I was referring to the horse, period. The article you found
So was I. Domestication had to have a "starter" species
and those were the wild strains. The spread from Eurasie
was deliberate (used by humans for a variety of things)
and so aren't invasive. The ones that Europeans let loose
in NA were free roaming and then become considered
invasive.
deals only with a subspecies, the wild horse (which is not the same as
a feral horse).
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