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86,000 wild mustangs that roam the West are at the center of raging controversy
Activists condemned the government’s recent capture of nearly 350 mustangs, but for those tasked with managing a booming wild horse population in a drought-stricken West, it’s complicated.
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What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change
You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context.
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Horses offer emotional healing to recovering addicts, others facing mental health challenges
Tim Funk slid open the barn doors, and his herd of horses thundered into the arena, kicking up thick clouds of dust that mixed with their steamy breath to dance on the slivers of afternoon sunlight that peeked through the windows.
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Double trouble as feral horse numbers gallop past 25,000 in the Australian Alps
Rapid action is needed to reduce feral horse numbers before they cause more damage to native species.
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A small horse walks through the forest and eats grass in the meadow
In the near forest from our house, in the city of Votkinsk, in Russia, one family lives. It contains several horses. These are small and adult horses. During the walk, we accidentally saw a small hors
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3rd horse in 9 days dies at California's Santa Anita racetrack, marking 26 fatalities in 6 months
Another horse died at Southern California's prominent Santa Anita racetrack over the weekend, marking the third thoroughbred fatality at the facility in the last nine days, and the 26th fatality since December.
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Rewilding feral horses to reinvigorate grasslands
Until quite recently in human history, and an eyeblink in the history of Earth’s ecologies, wild horses lived across much of the planet. By Brandon Keim.
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Enough is enough, it's time to ban horse races like the Grand National
This weekend is the Grand National, the biggest event in the horse racing calendar – and if I had my way, it would also be the last. Racing people often claim that they love horses and treat them better than they would their own families – but according to racing regulatory body the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) own statistics, 4,905 horses have died because of racing since 1994. That means they have either died on the course, or have died or been put down later due to racing linked injuries.
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Dozens of feral horses found dead in dry Central Australian waterhole
A mass feral horse death at the base of a dry waterhole in Central Australia has been blamed on an extreme heatwave in the region. Around two dozen brumbies in various stages of decomposition have been discovered strewn along a 100-metre stretch of a swimming spot called Deep Hole, 20 kilometres from the remote community of Santa Teresa. The region has hit a record 12-day run of temperatures above 42 degrees Celsius, and it is poised to hit 13 days in Alice Springs on Wednesday.
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Only in Winchester
So I’m at Timmies, and I look across the counter to the drive-through window…I wonder what the horse was ordering?
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North Carolina’s Famous Wild Horses Emerge from Hurricane Florence Unscathed
We’re thrilled to report that the herds of wild horses that roam North Carolina’s Outer Banks have emerged from Hurricane Florence unscathed. Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Corolla Wild Horse Fund both confirmed on social media over the weekend that their equine populations are safe and sound following Hurricane Florence’s lashing last week. Corolla Wild Horse Fund herd manager Meg Puckett told The News & Observer that the wild herd found higher ground and grouped together against the wind and rain. People on the island also kept an eye on them.
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Rare Roman 'horseshoes' unearthed
The shoes, known as hipposandals, were found by a volunteer at Vindolanda.
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How do horses read human emotional cues?
Scientists demonstrated for the first time that horses integrate human facial expressions and voice tones to perceive human emotion, regardless of whether the person is familiar or not. Recent studies showed the herd-forming animal possesses high communication capabilities, and can read the emotions of their peers through facial expressions and contact calls, or whinnies. Horses have long been used as a working animal and also as a companion animal in sports and leisure, establishing close relationships with humans just like dogs do with people.
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Gift Suggestions for a Horse Lover
If you are looking for gift suggestions for a horse lover, then the below is exclusively for you.
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The mane attraction: hair-tossing horses – in pictures
Horses look as if they have just stepped out of a salon in Wiebke Haas’s joyous mane-tossing photographs
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Ancient DNA upends the horse family tree
New study shows the world’s only “wild” horses have domesticated ancestors
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Why Don’t Americans Eat Horse?
It's common in many cultures, but diners in the U.S. aren't ready for it
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500 Miles
Heroes and Horses
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Little girls dreaming big, racing horses in Mongolia
'If we don't have horses, we're not Mongols'
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House Committee Votes to Allow Feds to Kill Thousands of Wild Horses
The House Appropriations Committee voted last week to allow the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to begin euthanizing wild horses, whose large, mostly unchecked population has reportedly created problems for both government and private businesses. Though advocates of the approved amendment claim this euthanasia is the most humane solution, horse and animal advocates object and blame the BLM and government directly.
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