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• PyroVK@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Technically correct! But also, horses were native to North America but they went extinct 10,000 years ago and weren’t introduced until much more recently.

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    • PyroVK@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Equus simplicidens lived around 4 million years ago in North America, relying on speed, stamina, and herd behavior for protection from predators like early wolves and big cats. Their survival, much like modern equids, depended on strong social structures and collective awareness. Over time, this lineage spread to other continents via land bridges before becoming extinct in North America. evolved into the distinct species of horses, zebras, and donkeys and where to the american continent reintroduced by humans.

      -chatgpt + edits

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      • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ChatGPT? Then everyone should assume this is horse shit until verified.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Large predatory flightless birds didn’t help either.

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, sweet home Caelid

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    • Dutczar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “What are those? I know predatory and flightless birds, but both?”

      I have looked it up before posting, I learned something new today

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      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are known as terror birds. Think of a ten foot tall ostrich with a flesh tearing beak like an eagle.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The wording here makes it sound like we hunted horses for the specific purpose of having sex on them

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• match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the mongols

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Saber toothed tigers and shit

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Saber toothed shit is a serious reason

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