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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] PyroVK@lemmy.zip 79 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 66 points 10 months 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.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] thurmite@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Don’t tell that to a Mormon

[–] PyroVK@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months 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.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Large predatory flightless birds probably didn't help either.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Ah, sweet home Caelid

[–] Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months 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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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!

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Saber toothed tigers and shit

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Saber toothed shit is a serious reason