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Alberta government says wild horse population has reached 'unacceptable' levels, advocates disagree (www.cbc.ca)
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It's hard to miss the horses on the way to the mountains.

They've established free-roaming populations throughout the foothills and grasslands of Alberta's eastern slopes, with herds of wild horses almost guaranteed to be seen off Highway 1 west of Calgary year-round.

But the abundance of what the Alberta government calls "feral horses" has reached "unacceptable" levels, according to the province's horse management strategy.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (2 children)

And what is your point. These horses are jot native here as they are alive. And the"horses" that lived here where not the ones that are here now.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    My point is, what sbv wrote wasn't true, so I added additional info. How dare I, right? Knowledge is the enemy 😭

    Critics of the idea that the North American wild horse is a native animal, using only selected paleontological data, assert that the species, E. caballus (or the caballoid horse), which was introduced in 1519, was a different species from that which disappeared between 13,000–11,000 years before. Herein lies the crux of the debate. However, neither paleontological opinion nor modern molecular genetics support the contention that the modern horse in North America is non-native.

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