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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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

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

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 66 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

Don’t tell that to a Mormon

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

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Large predatory flightless birds probably didn't help either.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Ah, sweet home Caelid

[–] Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Saber toothed tigers and shit

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Saber toothed shit is a serious reason