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of horse they are (infosec.pub)

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Umm we do have feral horses here. So there are "wild* horses in the Americas

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the fact that you used the term "feral" and put quotes around "wild" shows that you already understand that that's a bullshit argument.

They're also not everywhere in the Americas by a longshot, they're certainly not in my neck of the woods.

Feral ≠ wild. Feral horses shouldn't be considered the same as the wild horses that once existed in the Americas any more than domesticated dogs should be considered the same as a grey wolf, or feral swine as actual wild boars.

And at any rate it has been around 12,000 years since the last truly wild American horse existed, they're no more a part of the modern environment than wooly mammoths are.