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In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant recounts going to Texas when he was with the army during the Mexican-American war in the 1840s and seeing a herd of horses so l
by jononomo 4y ago
In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant recounts going to Texas when he was with the army during the Mexican-American war in the 1840s and seeing a herd of horses so large that it extended from horizon to horizon. Even when they climbed to the top of a nearby hill they could not see the end of the herd.
- setr 4y agoThat sounds like it would operate as a roaming, long-lived natural disaster
- barbazoo 4y agoTerrifying
- moloch-hai 4y agoHorses originated in North America, were wiped out by the comet strike and then re-introduced, and did well. There are ongoing federal programs to slaughter them wholesale, out of mistaken apprehension that they compete with cattle for open rangeland. Horses range much farther from water than cattle can, so do not compete with them for fodder. They did once compete with bison.