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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What preditor was so fast horses had to evolve to that extent??

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big cat. You're aware of the cheetah? Just picture that but not in Africa

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You know what really caught me up: where are horses native to?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are wild horses on the Mongolian steppes.

All other horses are domesticated. Even the free horses in USA and Australia are descendants of domesticated horses.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're right! But also, horses were native to North America but they went extinct 10,000 years ago and weren't introduced until much more recently.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Don’t tell that to a Mormon

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

PBS Eons has a couple good videos on both horse evolution and domestication.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It’s just a damn good series in general as well

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Us. They basically tried to beat pursuit predation by outrunning the distance humans will be willing to track over.

It did not work, they went extinct in North America because of how much it did not work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Large predatory flightless birds probably didn't help either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Ah, sweet home Caelid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"What are those? I know predatory and flightless birds, but both?"

I have looked it up before posting, I learned something new today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They are known as terror birds. Think of a ten foot tall ostrich with a flesh tearing beak like an eagle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Human. Not for food, but because they always choose to breed on the Porcshe over the Toyota Hilux for racing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The wording here makes it sound like we hunted horses for the specific purpose of having sex on them, and honestly, I'd probably be running as fast as a car if that kept happening to me too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saber toothed tigers and shit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Saber toothed shit is a serious reason