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Re:The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself by exabrial on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:05AM (#16392794)
Horses were so incredibly useful to humans, it changed their entire evolutionary course. If I recall correctly, out of the thousands of species of horses, there is only one truly "wild" one left. Any other horses that are untamed and raised in nature are actually feral.

I love the animals. They're like big dogs that don't understand how truly massive they are.

Re:The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself by bwanab on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:34PM (#16394019)
In high school, I had a summer and after-school job cleaning a local horse stable. Up to then I'd had no introduction to horses. This job entailed being in the stalls with the individual horses and shoveling around them. Due to my prompting or self-motivated they'd often move around these fairly tight spaces. I was always amazed at how nimble they were in the sense that they always seemed to know where to put their hoofs to not step on my toes.
Re:The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself by gadders on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:56AM (#16393682)
I always thought they were more like slightly more aesthetically pleasing cows.