I live in a small town in Az. and every so often a small herd of wild horses rolls through town...right down main street. It is a magical experiece to be able to see these wonderful, awsome wild horses. And it makes me smile to know they are still out there.
But it's sad too cause that's going to pisses off the human gods. If their land wasn't being taken away they would never want to go into any towns. I love witnessing wildlife as well but I know what happens when the wrong people hear about it. I'm in a small town in Vermont and right now have an adorable raccoon that's been hanging out. Guess what? They are trying to catch him not cause he's doing anything wrong but because parents aren't keeping their kids away from him and they are afraid the child will get hurt. But it's the kids that are looking for him and chasing him. I hate people!!!
@@davis51369 The wild mustang threats are illegal domestication, habitat destruction, illegal hunting trophies,tourism and slaughtering!! The biology world need help this animal life stop evil humans in West North America, incluing west 🇺🇲 and west 🇨🇦!!👮🏼♂️💪🏽💪🏽🌿🐾🧬🏆
There is nothing more uplifting and spiritual than watching a herd of wild horses running free. To my people, the Indigenous people of North America they are sacred and our relatives.
My deepest respect for Native Americans, particularly given their plight historically, but if I’m not mistaken, horses are native to the Middle East. Native Americans captured wild horses that got away from the Spanish and broke them in and used them as transportation as well.There were horses in the Americas at one time, but they had long since gone extinct and only made a come back after the Spanish arrived.
I live in Southern Colorado on Wild Horse Mesa and I do feed and take care of the bands that are here. I have been challenged about the wisdom of this in making the horses overly dependent but my logic is that it keeps them on private property here on the Mesa rather than on ranchers property below the Mesa or on the highways on either side of the Mesa. I have found that the horses will adapt to whatever situation they are in and will range to find food and water as they need it if I do not provide it for them. I have found them to be very accepting of me as part of their social structure and as their protector and provider. I have also found that the relationships that I have with the various stallions is mutually engaged often at their initiative only for socialization and investigation. The social structure of the horses is very complex but the fundamental principles by which they operate are very simple and center on survival. Bearing this in mind provides a realistic perspective and a no-nonsense approach to interactions with the horses. They do have clear relational predilection to investigate humans in their midst. Having been accepted as their alpha male provider and protector, and having earned the respect of the stallions through displays of physical dominance, even to the point of sparring with the stallions. Once established as a member of their social network I was able to develop deep emotional bonds with some of the horses, especially the young. Being with many of the mares through gestation, the foals know my voice and touch. Their curiosity draws them to me and I allow them to sniff my head and imitate a small horse by crouching and bowing my head. We "neck" and chomp and bond physically. The mares must give their accent however and the stallions keep a watchful eye on us. I helped deliver a foal last year and she has become my little darling. She knocks on the door, seems me out for companionship and love through massage, scratching, and naps together with her head in my lap!!
I went to visit my home country in Puerto Rico and got to witness the wild horses running wild in the mountain ranges...most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life..I'm a horse lover and these are my favorite animals by far..they should be protected and not misunderstood...they've been with us since early evolution and are as loyal or more so than dogs...through wars ,pioneers,racing,working and servicing mankind ,these beautiful creations of God demand respect and care from man....nuff said. 🐴🐴🐴🐎🐎🐎
Horses are the most honorable of all animals, and built every civilization on their backs. Its a shame that they are not being appreciated. BTW, I love the fincas en el centro de Puerto Rico....
@@heitorsantos7046 Hola, es cierto que en Puerto Rico estan forsando las vacunas de Covid19? Si es cierto van ha terminar con la poblacion de Puerto Rico. Dios mio, vayanse por las montanyas o las cuevas para esconderse! Tengo familia in Morrovis!
Never cause we are the species that have to destroy everything in our path. If we can't make money off it then it shouldn't be cared about is the message I get from the people that want to get rid of the horse or whatever other animal they don't think deserves to live. I'm so ashamed of our fellow humans that have no comparison for wildlife
Never. One day we will drive ourselves to extinction. Hopefully other species will recover. Like they have done in Chernobyl. Humans are worse than radioactive disaster....
They need to keep their bloody livestock at home where they belong and if they cant keep it on their property then maybe they should downsize to fit the size of land they own and not taking it from the wild animals.
@@KawaiiEvoMii Yes,...Same here in Canada, although,there is talk of having a preserve of sorts, Horses, Antelope and Bison with Wolves and bears on the Prairie again. We shall see.
Or better yet not breed and animals destined for the slaughterhouse? Move away from exploiting animals for a living. Then no impact on the wildlife and the horses.
Wow. This one really opened my eyes. I’ve seen horses being put down and that is so so sad but putting the horses on a truck to take away really made me think when that chick said doing that / breaking them up / the stress they go through / well it would and just that in itself really blew my mind.
It breaks my heart to hear that these majestic wild horses are being removed from their grazing lands, and being slaughtered!!! They are soooo beautiful and need to be free to roam. Separating families of these horses is very cruel in my opinion. Taking colts from their mothers is unconscionable. These are intelligent, loving horses. Man always seems to deny that ALL animals are very smart. Treat them with tender love and they will return love ten fold back.
We pay for this to happen in the billions to cows, pigs, sheep, goats (all just as sentient and sensitive emotionally aware as horses) etc and their babies and families. Legalised animal cruelty we don’t bat an eyelid about.
Every living creature on this Planet is a viable living being, of it’s own species just as we are . The biggest issue is it’s wrong and we don’t eat their meat! Yes they do breed prolifically so herding health checkups and birth control can make the difference. Horses have the unquestioned family system that proves they know what’s good for them and what’s not. We change or like everything else that’s no longer here because of us. Everything including us will be shaken from the back of this Great Planet. If you think everything isn’t supposed to work together just look at the difference in everything since you were a child. Remember what your ancestors had to say on how this place was. We are all connected by this life and the Planet is our mother truly as much as God is the Father. We don’t exist without each other as one. To late I hope not, I’m still waiting to see 🙏❤️🇺🇸🤗
SOME animals are smart, others aren't, most can be considered pretty primitive in terms of cognitive abilities. There's a huge difference between a Monkey and a Makarel - saying all animals are smart is just ignorant and plain wrong even if it's with good intentions. And so is that ' treat wild animals with love and they suddenly surrender their natural instincs and become affectionate and loving and tame' is just dangerously wrong.
The thought of these majestic creatures being slaughtered makes me sick. I would do anything to see this stop. I’ve heard they take them for long rides to Mexico or Canada without any food or water. Then if the long ride wasn’t bad enough I can only imagine the horrible smell and sounds and the fear they must feel when they are loaded off that truck. They even take pregnant mares, and foals to slaughter. I don’t know what kind of human could kill a foal or know that a mare is pregnant and kill her. When I look at my mustang and see the relationship we have I don’t agree that all the wild mustangs belong roaming free. I think if my horse could talk and he was given a choice I’m pretty sure he would say he wants to stay with me. He gets fed twice a day and he has about 60 acres he is able to roam on with his buddies, but every evening it’s his choice to be standing at my back gate waiting to come into the barn for dinner, and he has no problem staying in for the night, and laying down and sleeping. The other night I was at the barn late and I looked over and only a few feet away he laid down with me right there near him and literally 5 min later he was snoring. That was the first time he has laid down with me that close to him, and I had no idea horses snore. The next morning he has breakfast and when he is finished and sees me walking over to him with his fly mask he puts his head down so I can put it on him. He even stands still so I can spray him down with fly spray. Out of my three horses I am positive he understand why I put a fly mask on him and why he has to have fly spray on. Mustangs are really and truly smart horses. (My other two horses still try to walk away when I put fly spray on them and one horse is 17). Then I open the gate and he gets to go out and spend the day being a horse who doesn’t have to worry about where his next meal is going to come from. We have to fight for these horses. When I think about my life without Scout I honestly can’t imagine it. Him and I are so in tune with one another now, and he really tries to please me. Mustangs make the best trail horses and are great at competition. My friend has won so many ribbons on her mustang. I got my mustang when he was really young. (BLM said he was 9 months, but I am pretty sure he was younger probably around 6-8 months) at a mustang adoption event they were having in my town. With enough time and patience these horses can do everything a domestic horse can do and more. Anyone who says they are not good for riding or anything obviously never had one because that was an very ignorant statement….
Before I die , I want to see the stallions in the wild. I had horses when I was 13 years old. I love horses. They are intelligent and if you respect them and treat them well with affection they will make a bond with you.
I am glad wild horses return back to America, whether they return on their own through an ice sheet or whichever, or if humans returned them. It is nice and finding past first evolving horses before our current horses show they are native here in some way.
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I am sad that we no longer have those beautiful, majestic, magnificent creatures in Texas anymore, Texas used to be loaded with them! I love wild horses and I am dismayed what is being perpetrated on those animals in America and other parts of the world. Here we round them up by helicopters, putting them into panic, with foals getting separated from their mothers and many horses getting injured. After that we put them into lots, cramped together for years at the time and then putting them up for sale for a few dollars at an auction where kill buyers buy most of them up and sell them to Mexico and Canada for slaughter! It's disgusting what is being done to those beautiful animals, it breaks my heart! These horses don't deserve any of it, they DO NOT belong in slaughterhouses, nor should they be rounded up by helicopters and taken out of their natural environment! Leave them alone and let them live where they ought to be, out in the wild‼️And by the way, we are doing the same thing to the wild burros, domestic horses and mules. They end up at the auction and are headed do slaughter! THIS HAS TO STOP😡‼️
Thank the politicians that lie for these ranch and slaughter industries and say the horses impact the deer population when they don’t even eat the same plants. Yet the same people who love these horses and hunting buy into those lies, which is why they’re out of big red texas.
@@foxyrider7840 you just couldn’t help yourself but to throw politics into the mix, could you now!? Yes Texas is a “red” state as you call it and I damn well hope it will stay that way because we don’t need this liberal woke BS in Texas! Second, what have the democrats done for these mustangs? Absolutely nothing! Newsflash for you, the U.S government is planing to capture more wild horses on federal land this year then ever before! The Biden administration is drawing sharp criticism because of it because everybody had hoped that Biden would curtail the roundups but he won’t! There are 3 groups that have filed a lawsuit challenging the illegal and inhumane roundup of more then 2,000 horses that’s already under way about 80 miles west of the Utah line! Of the 987 wild horses captured as of Monday, 11 horses already died, all this infuriates me!!! The wild horses that used to roam in Texas had all disappeared by the late 1800s, even from Mustang Island which was named after the abundance of the breed. These wild horses mainly disappeared because of the enclosure of the open range, meaning ranchers fencing off their land and therefore the loss of habitat for the wild horses! I wish people would educate themselves before the open their mouth about something! I was only making a statement about Texas no longer having wild horses making me sad and I didn’t say anything about politicians unlike you, but I did point out about the horrific blight of the wild horses that are left! Who said that horses impact the deer population? If someone did say that they are ignorant! It is hogwash and utter nonsense! Out west where we still have wild horses left, the ranchers want to lease the federal land for their cattle, the land where these horses are roaming free right now, so the wild horses have to go because the government can’t make money off the wild horses! BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is claiming that there is an overpopulation of wild horses (which is a big fat lie) to justify all those stinking roundups that are taking place all the time! And then we allow for horses, whether domesticated or wild, to be sold to Mexico and Canada for slaughter to land on someone’s dinner plate which is disgusting and appalling! I don’t see your democrat president stopping any of it, do you? All politician are corrupt, including the democrats!!! I don’t hunt, I hate it, I also hate trapping which should be outlawed! I hate for any living being being abused, neglected, starved, beaten, shot, poisoned, mistreated, or anything else and you don’t know squat why there aren’t any wild horses left in Texas! And one other thing, deer don’t have a natural predator anymore, aka the wolf, because the have been killed off, so the deer population explodes! They do try to re-introduce wolves all the time, only for them to be hunted down and killed again by idiots!!! Whenever mankind interferes with nature, everything gets screwed up, period! So don’t preach to me because I have been a advocate for animals for decades!!! LIVE AND LET LIVE‼️
@@foxyrider7840 I have news for you, I am not a sheep that just fallows because I do have a brain in my head to think for myself and I will vote for a democrat when hell freezes over, meaning NEVER! Biden claims to be a devout Catholic, yea right in name only maybe! I don’t vote for a party that gives its blessings to kill an innocent life in the womb! Everyone that is supporting this despicable act is alive and well and walking around, I guess they all can call themselves lucky that they were not among the thousands of babies that never got the same chance in life! If you are for protecting animals but are ok with murdering an innocent life before it is even born you are a hypocrite!!! Read about the founding of the democrat party and what they believe, educate yourself what they are all about, it’s an eye opener! If you voted for Biden you are guilty as well of all the military service dogs that the Biden administration left behind in Afghanistan when he pulled out of that country last year, which was the most botch up mission ever! Biden left every service dogs behind!!! 😡The dog crates were empty sitting on the tarmac, the soldiers loaded up in the cargo planes and the dogs got turned loose to be part of the Afghanistan stray dog population! Sorry sucker! 😡 I contacted PETA and they got involved but the Biden administration lied like always and didn’t do a damn thing about it! I don’t care if you are an Independent, if you voted for that inept, incompetent and senile old potato head that’s occupying the Whitehouse and who is now destroying America, you are to blame for everything that’s going on right now as well.
@@gj9736 both sides are full of s*** and work together at the top, in case you missed that, it’s in this documentary. Women are also not incubators, they don’t have to grow something inside them if they don’t want to. You cannot begin to imagine how much resources it takes for a body to grow another human, it’s barely even competent at it. You support taking a right away and illegal dangerous abortion methods if you support anti-choice. As a man of red you should be against any freedom-restricting laws like this especially regarding bodily autonomy but your politicians have you brainwashed and most reds consider women as something lesser than themselves. Seriously this whole debate and laws on abortion were only made up to keep people stuck in generational poverty, so they can keep consuming from the people that do most of their manufacturing overseas and weed out any American business. If you can’t see that then I’m sorry but you’d make a horrible detective and you’re still in your own little world. The new law only affects those that are too poor and don’t have the means to access abortion, it will never be outlawed but they did it just enough to target those poor women. I’ve seen grown men screaming in the ears of poor teenage girls and had guys shouting at me that abortion is murder right outside a clinic, no one needs to go through that let alone hear it from someone who’s unaffected by the law they’re advocating for. Best believe my boyfriend came close to knocking one of those guy’s teeth out, you don’t just go around calling someone a murderer, it’s not like people enjoy abortions.
Who says a mustang cant be happy domesticated? There are plenty of people who adopt mustangs and they end up being the most loyal horse they have ridden and form a strong bond with thier owner and they never have to worry about when thier next meal is gonna come and are safe from predators and the harsh elements. A domesticated life isn't always the worse thing to happen to a mustang, there are worst things that can happen to them out in the wild. I agree that wild horses should stay free and in their natural habitat but the ones that do get adopted by good people are living a good life free of strife and hardship and are loved and that is true freedom, freedom from the cruelty of the world
MY famous horse breeds are Morgan, Przewaski's horse, Quarter Mile, Arabian, Paint,Appaloosa, Tennessese Walking,Shire,Clydesdale,Mustang,Palomino, Buckskin and Fjord.
We pay for the slaughter of billions to cows, pigs, sheep, goats (all just as sentient and sensitive emotionally aware as horses) etc and their babies and families. Legalised animal cruelty we don’t bat an eyelid about. We are heartbroken over horses being killed but we actively pay for this with eating animals through the animal agriculture that is destroying environment and wildlife.
Exactly!! I eat very little meat, but haven’t eaten Beef for over 30 years. Living in Europe I’ve learned to respect animals and what comes on the table. I do eat Fowl, which also aren’t always treated correctly. And I do, although seldom, eat Pork, which also has a problem with proper handling and Slaughtering, but I do attempt to eat meat that is Butchered here in my area, without a long way to the Slaughterhouse and is Organically raised. And through the lack of controls a few Countries have faced the Horrors of Hoof and Mouth, and Schwein Pest disease. But one thing that has always seemed to baffle Me is with the amount of meat produced and eaten by Americans, and the fact that it’s relatively cheap compared to Europe, why is it that none of these diseases are ever found over there? Then I saw a documentary about how much medication the Fowl, Sheep, Pigs, and Cattle are given, and it explains why the Americans are so Fucking Stupid!! The cattle Ranches with Thousands of acres, with Thousands of cattle, giving off gases that affect the atmosphere, and taking the Land that was once Owned by the Original Americans, and Roamed by Their means of traveling and Their means of Nourishment, to be cast in the same Lot is totally American. I believe Americans are on this Earth to destroy it. That’s why Folks are traveling into Outerspace looking for another Planet to FUCKUP.
Congress ! ask Ranchers for reducing their livestock instead of reducing horses herds. Fine the BLM staff when they show cruelty. Monitor the hand over of titles after a year. Ban sales and commercialization of horse meat, etc etc
So do something about it PEOPLE, It's all fine to say it's wrong and it's mismanaged then after the show walk away. And then keep paying out of your taxes to have this continue. That makes you the problem. Wake up!
Those stockmen or the BLM have no right to fence our public lands for their grazing. How can we get those fences removed? It's supposed to be OPEN RANGE. And I I pray the BLM has improved their roundup techniques so they are no longer cruel!!!
I've been to the Pryor mountain wild horse range Wich consists of 39,650 acres of some tough desert and mountain country. But only a total of 180 horse's live on the range.
It is so horrible what we humas are doing to animals, I am literally crying! 😥 Who gives us the right to treat these amazing, noble, very sensitive and beautiful animals the way we do?! They have a right to live free and enjoy a happy life in freedom. We have no right to capture, subdue or kill them! Once again, I am so ashamed to be a human 😥The world would be so much better off without us!
I'm sorry but I couldn't watch all of this. Truly heartbreaking... We as humans beings should be ashamed of our past and what we have done to so many free and beautiful animals of our world. DOG MEAT ???? Did they hurt anyone ? How very cruel our ancestors were... and a Government that rules the world with an iron fist and kills off..all the beauty in this world. They have to control everything... even us. So very sad. 🥺 🐴🐎 There is no such thing as freedom anymore, for anything or anyone. Those who are fighting to save these beautiful animals have to fight hard, just to make a change. 😔
I hate seeing how there hitting these Beautiful Horses just to get them in there Trailers. This is so very wrong what did the Horses do to use that u have to Hit them shot them whip them beat them tie them up on the legs like that is so wrong .... 😇
I had a mare in 1969 of unknown origins. She was supposed to be six, but was pregnant with a third foal. I wondered if mustangs or other wild horses from N.America were being brought to Virginia in the 1960s. She does resemble some of the mustangs I have seen on youtubes lately. I have some photos, but nothing to provide any DNA. (That third foal was by a registered QH, Alkali Junior, who at the time my father bought the mare was in Va. He was said to have been owned by Aurthur Godfrey at one time. So I guess HE came from somewhere out west, originally.) Any way to figure it out? I have a lock of the foal's hair (but not roots).
That’s why when I adopt horses I take them back to my 200 acre property and set them free to graze. No more ropes, no more pens or coral. I have 12 horses and have never ridden any of them. Most have been tamed
Wow, that's so great! That's so kind, selfless, prudent and compassionate of you, I highly appreciate it and so do the horses too, certainly! You're a great man, thank you! :)
Wild horse don't compete with deer, antelopes, mountain goats, moose, or elk these animals are all browsers. They eat bushes, trees, and brush. Where as sheep, and cattle compete with wild horses because all three-day grazes grass. So in my opinion is the Bureau Land Management should limit all domestic livestock on land which was set aside for the wild horses. Also when you separate a mare from her foal and disturb the family dynamics will cause the mare to come back in season/heat which will cause increase in the horse population. If you leave the family dynamics alone the horses won't increase that drastically.
Arrow heads in Saskatchewan have been found with Horse Protein on them,....these arrow and spear heads date from some 11000 to 13000 years ago. Interesting...
Here's an idea' why not cut swales, place check-dams, scatter Bermuda-grass seed, and otherwise use Permaculture practices to improve and increase the amount of grass on those range-lands? Instead of squabbling over who gets the grass, why not grow more grass?
There is nothing more magical than a herd of wild horses running wild and free. My heart skips a beat with the thunderous pounding of their hooves as they make their way to the destination they desire. Humans are the cruelest of all beast that roam this land, it is by our own doing that so many horses have been lost and I’m sure they won’t change anytime soon, till maybe it’s the human race that is endangered.
I'm truly fascinated by the vitriol in the comments on this video, has anyone taken time to learn what the current situation is, the helicopter in the footage around 30 minutes in is nearly 50 years old and isn't used anymore this may have been posted 8 months ago but the documentary is pushing half a century old come on people
I realize this is going to be an unpopular opinion in this comment section but it appears that these horses aren't being viewed with the same lenses as we do with other wild animals and domesticated livestock. Other cultures view pigs and cattle as we do horses as a food source. I share the sentiment and romanticism of seeing a mustang living in the wild, it is the iconic American wild west. That doesn't remove them from the food chain. We are fortunate that we have the ability to make and use tools that has given us the ability to be apex predators and off the menu of other apex predators. If we were to roll the clock back 10,000 years we weren't so fortunate. If you want to reduce the number of animals removed from the wild then WE need to reduce OUR need for natural resources. Everything we do impacts our need for resources. If you want to see more wild horses eat less pork or beef. Ask yourself if you need to have a dog or cat. Reduce our population by limiting the number of children you have. Reduce your use of electricity and addiction to the internet, travel, luxury goods etc. Everything we do as humans has an impact on the world we share and the animals we live with. If you want to scale up the number of wild horses you need to scale down your consumption of resources. The need for a new phone may not seem linked to the number of wild horses but I assure you that it is. The links may not be apparent but everything is linked in some way and the goods and services you use have an impact on the world around you.
Agreed. Though in addition there is also a need to restore North America's top predators so that they may exert top-down regulation on their prey (including feral horses & burros), especially considering how unwilling humans appear to be towards killing feral horses & burros. Those predators being wolves, black bears, grizzlies, and Jaguars. As well as add additional protections to the only wide-spread top predators remaining in western North America (also where most feral equids reside in North America): Cougars. In western North America, most feral horses & burros live on public land, primarily BLM (Bureau of Land Management) owned-land, it's also these same public lands that ranchers like to bring their cattle & other non-feral, privately owned domesticated livestock to forage. So to protect the cows & other livestock, the cougars are heavily hunted, to the point their populations are dominated by what amounts to teenagers. Young & inexperienced, they are incapable of preying upon equids except for neonates. However, even in the few places where they aren't hunted, the effectiveness of Cougars as predators of horses & burros varies from place to place due to the fact that, as ambush predators, Cougars require either dense vegetation or broken topography (or both) in order to effectively prey upon feral equids. And even then, cougars can only prey upon young horses that are roughly a year old. And this is why it's important to restore North America's top predators.
Really we could use our resources in more collective and sustainable ways and have the best of both worlds. We could protect the environment and also have a new phone. Starvation isn't around because there isn't enough food. We just don't consider it our duty to eliminate it by allocating resources accordingly.
Is it possible that horses on the far western side of the US went north along the coastline up into Canada and just stayed there to create the wild horse herds that we have today?
Remember this 9 years a Stallion doesn’t mean he’s going to live and train out some chose to die on you Be prepared for hard facts that they don’t tell you and the risk for these horses is real! There’s only one answer that’s Freedom! I done seen Stallions die from heartbreak and simply not breakable! You can’t keep a wild horse unless you follow strict guidelines so watch what you wish for you may end up broken hearted like my sister. Sometimes what seems best still isn’t the best way!
Hearing about your reference to the "evolution of a horse is not only offensive to me as an old horse lover it's very offensive to the Supreme God who created them. The horse is a great creation of God . The horse show the creativity of God and is one of the greatest of God's creation . So stop insulting this creation by refering to millions of years.
Leave theses beautiful equines alone...stop slaughtering them. There plenty of space out there for them. Why do evil walnut brained individuals want to cull them. Shame on you.
If the wild herds were deemed native it would open the door to management by hunting under the jurisdiction of States. The Federal government management was set to take control of the horses from the States.
Desculpe não falo espanhol,nem russo nem ingles entendo muito pouco mas algumas pessoas passam minhas ideias falando nestas línguas, eu só dou sugestões para ajudar pessoas qualquer coisa que disserem que seja para prejudicar que falem em meu nome não é verdadeiro.esta raça de cavalo é linda se separarem por cores as manchas ficaram mais bonitas e se misturem manchas marrons e manchas pretas.
I believe that all wild horses should be able to roam free and for whoever out there how would you like it if you were done the way that they were done set them free and let them live their life wild and freedom and just watching what I just watched these wild horses were slaughtered makes me sick and to me that's sad where is American coming to 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸☹️
I could not watch those men beating them 😡😢😢😢 It breaks my heart !! All of the horses being chased and terrified of the helicopter ... I watched most of this video , but I could not watch the cruelty!! Leave them alone , they run from man for a reason and to force them to slaughter or whatever other “ BRILLIANT “ idea some rich rancher has in mind is nauseating to say the least !!!
Gonna disagree with the horses being the most “social constructed” group of animals. There’s so many of them all with complex social grouping. Take the wolves for example, lions as well. And by far one of the most sophisticated of them is the orcas which literally within each group have their OWN language just as if two people who speak Spanish and English wouldn’t be able to communicate that easily. So yeah, horses are very socially amazing but let’s not make them seem like they’re the best out there 💀
I think maybe, he said it that way because to so many ( cattle ranchers ) in particular consider wild horses less then valuable,, when in truth they have much to be admired. Nice roll call by the way,, naming some of the best, without needing to think about it... Lol
Actually there are now! They have found a site where humans were obviously killing horses And eating them. So yes, it could be that humans killed all the horses.
I live in a small town in Az. and every so often a small herd of wild horses rolls through town...right down main street. It is a magical experiece to be able to see these wonderful, awsome wild horses. And it makes me smile to know they are still out there.
But it's sad too cause that's going to pisses off the human gods. If their land wasn't being taken away they would never want to go into any towns. I love witnessing wildlife as well but I know what happens when the wrong people hear about it. I'm in a small town in Vermont and right now have an adorable raccoon that's been hanging out. Guess what? They are trying to catch him not cause he's doing anything wrong but because parents aren't keeping their kids away from him and they are afraid the child will get hurt. But it's the kids that are looking for him and chasing him. I hate people!!!
@@davis51369 The wild mustang threats are illegal domestication, habitat destruction, illegal hunting trophies,tourism and slaughtering!! The biology world need help this animal life stop evil humans in West North America, incluing west 🇺🇲 and west 🇨🇦!!👮🏼♂️💪🏽💪🏽🌿🐾🧬🏆
@@davis51369 I agree! Thanks for comment about this!
@@davis51369 Ok?
They belong free not!
There is nothing more uplifting and spiritual than watching a herd of wild horses running free. To my people, the Indigenous people of North America they are sacred and our relatives.
My deepest respect for Native Americans, particularly given their plight historically, but if I’m not mistaken, horses are native to the Middle East. Native Americans captured wild horses that got away from the Spanish and broke them in and used them as transportation as well.There were horses in the Americas at one time, but they had long since gone extinct and only made a come back after the Spanish arrived.
@Asain guy Look it up again ! It is speculation they originated in Asian Europe North America. Who knows ?
@@asianguy6174 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 my name is Nyla
The mustang is ours.
@@asianguy6174 Horses evolved in North America but went extinct. Horses were domesticated somewhere in West Asia.
Nothing as beautiful as a horse.
I totally agree :) I love them to the moon and back , they've been sent from heaven
I live in Southern Colorado on Wild Horse Mesa and I do feed and take care of the bands that are here. I have been challenged about the wisdom of this in making the horses overly dependent but my logic is that it keeps them on private property here on the Mesa rather than on ranchers property below the Mesa or on the highways on either side of the Mesa. I have found that the horses will adapt to whatever situation they are in and will range to find food and water as they need it if I do not provide it for them. I have found them to be very accepting of me as part of their social structure and as their protector and provider. I have also found that the relationships that I have with the various stallions is mutually engaged often at their initiative only for socialization and investigation. The social structure of the horses is very complex but the fundamental principles by which they operate are very simple and center on survival. Bearing this in mind provides a realistic perspective and a no-nonsense approach to interactions with the horses. They do have clear relational predilection to investigate humans in their midst. Having been accepted as their alpha male provider and protector, and having earned the respect of the stallions through displays of physical dominance, even to the point of sparring with the stallions. Once established as a member of their social network I was able to develop deep emotional bonds with some of the horses, especially the young. Being with many of the mares through gestation, the foals know my voice and touch. Their curiosity draws them to me and I allow them to sniff my head and imitate a small horse by crouching and bowing my head. We "neck" and chomp and bond physically.
The mares must give their accent however and the stallions keep a watchful eye on us.
I helped deliver a foal last year and she has become my little darling. She knocks on the door, seems me out for companionship and love through massage, scratching, and naps together with her head in my lap!!
I went to visit my home country in Puerto Rico and got to witness the wild horses running wild in the mountain ranges...most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life..I'm a horse lover and these are my favorite animals by far..they should be protected and not misunderstood...they've been with us since early evolution and are as loyal or more so than dogs...through wars ,pioneers,racing,working and servicing mankind ,these beautiful creations of God demand respect and care from man....nuff said. 🐴🐴🐴🐎🐎🐎
Horses are the most honorable of all animals, and built every civilization on their backs.
Its a shame that they are not being appreciated. BTW, I love the fincas en el centro de
Puerto Rico....
@@mariabykofsky4502 I Love this horses. The forest need keep protecting this amazing creatures from threats!
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Que viva Puerto Rico y la naturaleza de la "Bella Perla del Caribe"
@@mariabykofsky4502 Como estas incrible
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Hola, es cierto que en Puerto Rico estan forsando las vacunas de Covid19?
Si es cierto van ha terminar con la poblacion de Puerto Rico. Dios mio, vayanse por las montanyas o las cuevas para esconderse! Tengo familia in Morrovis!
You want respect for yourself you got to show respect for the animals. Don't treat them like garbage. I love watching animals
The Alpha Stallions can neigh agressivly like protector beasts!!🐴🐴🚹😤😤💢💢
Thank you for your presentation.The public needs to be aware of this situation.
When the hell are humans going to manage themselves?
Never cause we are the species that have to destroy everything in our path. If we can't make money off it then it shouldn't be cared about is the message I get from the people that want to get rid of the horse or whatever other animal they don't think deserves to live. I'm so ashamed of our fellow humans that have no comparison for wildlife
Never ever until we're done fucking up the ecosystem and turn on each other, this is how I predict the ends of time.
Best question I've ever heard.
@@davis51369 damned straight they want to kill the horse so damned rancher can graze their cows on it that the biggest bs i hear from ranchers
Never. One day we will drive ourselves to extinction. Hopefully other species will recover. Like they have done in Chernobyl. Humans are worse than radioactive disaster....
They need to keep their bloody livestock at home where they belong and if they cant keep it on their property then maybe they should downsize to fit the size of land they own and not taking it from the wild animals.
Ideally, your right, makes sense doesn't it, none the less, seems the Major beef Producers have another agenda, and we know how that works out.
Sad thing is at one point none of the land was 'owned', it belonged to nature, and we just shared it.
@@KawaiiEvoMii Yes,...Same here in Canada, although,there is talk of having a preserve of sorts, Horses, Antelope and Bison with Wolves and bears on the Prairie again. We shall see.
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Or better yet not breed and animals destined for the slaughterhouse? Move away from exploiting animals for a living. Then no impact on the wildlife and the horses.
Wow. This one really opened my eyes. I’ve seen horses being put down and that is so so sad but putting the horses on a truck to take away really made me think when that chick said doing that / breaking them up / the stress they go through / well it would and just that in itself really blew my mind.
It breaks my heart to hear that these majestic wild horses are being removed from their grazing lands, and being slaughtered!!! They are soooo beautiful and need to be free to roam. Separating families of these horses is very cruel in my opinion. Taking colts from their mothers is unconscionable. These are intelligent, loving horses. Man always seems to deny that ALL animals are very smart. Treat them with tender love and they will return love ten fold back.
They don't care.
@@Catlady77777 I know and it's very sad.😔
We pay for this to happen in the billions to cows, pigs, sheep, goats (all just as sentient and sensitive emotionally aware as horses) etc and their babies and families. Legalised animal cruelty we don’t bat an eyelid about.
Every living creature on this Planet is a viable living being, of it’s own species just as we are .
The biggest issue is it’s wrong and we don’t eat their meat!
Yes they do breed prolifically so herding health checkups and birth control can make the difference. Horses have the unquestioned family system that proves they know what’s good for them and what’s not.
We change or like everything else that’s no longer here because of us. Everything including us will be shaken from the back of this Great Planet. If you think everything isn’t supposed to work together just look at the difference in everything since you were a child. Remember what your ancestors had to say on how this place was. We are all connected by this life and the Planet is our mother truly as much as God is the Father. We don’t exist without each other as one.
To late I hope not, I’m still waiting to see
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SOME animals are smart, others aren't, most can be considered pretty primitive in terms of cognitive abilities. There's a huge difference between a Monkey and a Makarel - saying all animals are smart is just ignorant and plain wrong even if it's with good intentions.
And so is that ' treat wild animals with love and they suddenly surrender their natural instincs and become affectionate and loving and tame' is just dangerously wrong.
The thought of these majestic creatures being slaughtered makes me sick. I would do anything to see this stop. I’ve heard they take them for long rides to Mexico or Canada without any food or water. Then if the long ride wasn’t bad enough I can only imagine the horrible smell and sounds and the fear they must feel when they are loaded off that truck. They even take pregnant mares, and foals to slaughter. I don’t know what kind of human could kill a foal or know that a mare is pregnant and kill her. When I look at my mustang and see the relationship we have I don’t agree that all the wild mustangs belong roaming free. I think if my horse could talk and he was given a choice I’m pretty sure he would say he wants to stay with me. He gets fed twice a day and he has about 60 acres he is able to roam on with his buddies, but every evening it’s his choice to be standing at my back gate waiting to come into the barn for dinner, and he has no problem staying in for the night, and laying down and sleeping. The other night I was at the barn late and I looked over and only a few feet away he laid down with me right there near him and literally 5 min later he was snoring. That was the first time he has laid down with me that close to him, and I had no idea horses snore. The next morning he has breakfast and when he is finished and sees me walking over to him with his fly mask he puts his head down so I can put it on him. He even stands still so I can spray him down with fly spray. Out of my three horses I am positive he understand why I put a fly mask on him and why he has to have fly spray on. Mustangs are really and truly smart horses. (My other two horses still try to walk away when I put fly spray on them and one horse is 17). Then I open the gate and he gets to go out and spend the day being a horse who doesn’t have to worry about where his next meal is going to come from. We have to fight for these horses. When I think about my life without Scout I honestly can’t imagine it. Him and I are so in tune with one another now, and he really tries to please me. Mustangs make the best trail horses and are great at competition. My friend has won so many ribbons on her mustang. I got my mustang when he was really young. (BLM said he was 9 months, but I am pretty sure he was younger probably around 6-8 months) at a mustang adoption event they were having in my town. With enough time and patience these horses can do everything a domestic horse can do and more. Anyone who says they are not good for riding or anything obviously never had one because that was an very ignorant statement….
We need to round up the ranchers and sale them.
Yes!!!
I appreciate the detail and the research conducted for this video. Thank you for this.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video!
Before I die , I want to see the stallions in the wild. I had horses when I was 13 years old. I love horses. They are intelligent and if you respect them and treat them well with affection they will make a bond with you.
Why must humans destroy everything
Yes! Are you sure!
I am glad wild horses return back to America, whether they return on their own through an ice sheet or whichever, or if humans returned them. It is nice and finding past first evolving horses before our current horses show they are native here in some way.
For anyone that does not understand the word "caballo" in the title means horse in spanish.
I'm a horse therian so I'm always watching documentaries on their actions, coats, breeds , emotions, etc. I'm also going to a horse camp so I'm assuming this should help if Learn more about horses
Beautiful
I’ve seen the wild mustangs in outer banks, they are very beautiful animals.
That one guy really wants modern horses to be from America.
Sad to see how these animals are treated. These men are evil.
That's true!! Are the worst thing was created by mother nature!!
we as species deserves humility as eternal punishment before purification
@@andreafraustoz This breed don't like human aproaching because, they can gets scared by invasors!!
Man the destroyer of all living things
This just broke my heart 😢💔
I am sad that we no longer have those beautiful, majestic, magnificent creatures in Texas anymore, Texas used to be loaded with them! I love wild horses and I am dismayed what is being perpetrated on those animals in America and other parts of the world. Here we round them up by helicopters, putting them into panic, with foals getting separated from their mothers and many horses getting injured. After that we put them into lots, cramped together for years at the time and then putting them up for sale for a few dollars at an auction where kill buyers buy most of them up and sell them to Mexico and Canada for slaughter! It's disgusting what is being done to those beautiful animals, it breaks my heart! These horses don't deserve any of it, they DO NOT belong in slaughterhouses, nor should they be rounded up by helicopters and taken out of their natural environment! Leave them alone and let them live where they ought to be, out in the wild‼️And by the way, we are doing the same thing to the wild burros, domestic horses and mules. They end up at the auction and are headed do slaughter! THIS HAS TO STOP😡‼️
Thank the politicians that lie for these ranch and slaughter industries and say the horses impact the deer population when they don’t even eat the same plants. Yet the same people who love these horses and hunting buy into those lies, which is why they’re out of big red texas.
@@foxyrider7840 you just couldn’t help yourself but to throw politics into the mix, could you now!? Yes Texas is a “red” state as you call it and I damn well hope it will stay that way because we don’t need this liberal woke BS in Texas! Second, what have the democrats done for these mustangs? Absolutely nothing! Newsflash for you, the U.S government is planing to capture more wild horses on federal land this year then ever before! The Biden administration is drawing sharp criticism because of it because everybody had hoped that Biden would curtail the roundups but he won’t! There are 3 groups that have filed a lawsuit challenging the illegal and inhumane roundup of more then 2,000 horses that’s already under way about 80 miles west of the Utah line! Of the 987 wild horses captured as of Monday, 11 horses already died, all this infuriates me!!! The wild horses that used to roam in Texas had all disappeared by the late 1800s, even from Mustang Island which was named after the abundance of the breed. These wild horses mainly disappeared because of the enclosure of the open range, meaning ranchers fencing off their land and therefore the loss of habitat for the wild horses! I wish people would educate themselves before the open their mouth about something! I was only making a statement about Texas no longer having wild horses making me sad and I didn’t say anything about politicians unlike you, but I did point out about the horrific blight of the wild horses that are left! Who said that horses impact the deer population? If someone did say that they are ignorant! It is hogwash and utter nonsense! Out west where we still have wild horses left, the ranchers want to lease the federal land for their cattle, the land where these horses are roaming free right now, so the wild horses have to go because the government can’t make money off the wild horses! BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is claiming that there is an overpopulation of wild horses (which is a big fat lie) to justify all those stinking roundups that are taking place all the time! And then we allow for horses, whether domesticated or wild, to be sold to Mexico and Canada for slaughter to land on someone’s dinner plate which is disgusting and appalling! I don’t see your democrat president stopping any of it, do you? All politician are corrupt, including the democrats!!! I don’t hunt, I hate it, I also hate trapping which should be outlawed! I hate for any living being being abused, neglected, starved, beaten, shot, poisoned, mistreated, or anything else and you don’t know squat why there aren’t any wild horses left in Texas! And one other thing, deer don’t have a natural predator anymore, aka the wolf, because the have been killed off, so the deer population explodes! They do try to re-introduce wolves all the time, only for them to be hunted down and killed again by idiots!!! Whenever mankind interferes with nature, everything gets screwed up, period! So don’t preach to me because I have been a advocate for animals for decades!!! LIVE AND LET LIVE‼️
@@gj9736 I'm independent, sheep. Didn't read all that jargon bc clearly u didn't even watch the vid and you're still sleeping.
@@foxyrider7840 I have news for you, I am not a sheep that just fallows because I do have a brain in my head to think for myself and I will vote for a democrat when hell freezes over, meaning NEVER! Biden claims to be a devout Catholic, yea right in name only maybe! I don’t vote for a party that gives its blessings to kill an innocent life in the womb! Everyone that is supporting this despicable act is alive and well and walking around, I guess they all can call themselves lucky that they were not among the thousands of babies that never got the same chance in life! If you are for protecting animals but are ok with murdering an innocent life before it is even born you are a hypocrite!!! Read about the founding of the democrat party and what they believe, educate yourself what they are all about, it’s an eye opener! If you voted for Biden you are guilty as well of all the military service dogs that the Biden administration left behind in Afghanistan when he pulled out of that country last year, which was the most botch up mission ever! Biden left every service dogs behind!!! 😡The dog crates were empty sitting on the tarmac, the soldiers loaded up in the cargo planes and the dogs got turned loose to be part of the Afghanistan stray dog population! Sorry sucker! 😡 I contacted PETA and they got involved but the Biden administration lied like always and didn’t do a damn thing about it! I don’t care if you are an Independent, if you voted for that inept, incompetent and senile old potato head that’s occupying the Whitehouse and who is now destroying America, you are to blame for everything that’s going on right now as well.
@@gj9736 both sides are full of s*** and work together at the top, in case you missed that, it’s in this documentary. Women are also not incubators, they don’t have to grow something inside them if they don’t want to. You cannot begin to imagine how much resources it takes for a body to grow another human, it’s barely even competent at it. You support taking a right away and illegal dangerous abortion methods if you support anti-choice. As a man of red you should be against any freedom-restricting laws like this especially regarding bodily autonomy but your politicians have you brainwashed and most reds consider women as something lesser than themselves. Seriously this whole debate and laws on abortion were only made up to keep people stuck in generational poverty, so they can keep consuming from the people that do most of their manufacturing overseas and weed out any American business. If you can’t see that then I’m sorry but you’d make a horrible detective and you’re still in your own little world. The new law only affects those that are too poor and don’t have the means to access abortion, it will never be outlawed but they did it just enough to target those poor women. I’ve seen grown men screaming in the ears of poor teenage girls and had guys shouting at me that abortion is murder right outside a clinic, no one needs to go through that let alone hear it from someone who’s unaffected by the law they’re advocating for. Best believe my boyfriend came close to knocking one of those guy’s teeth out, you don’t just go around calling someone a murderer, it’s not like people enjoy abortions.
They,re amazing animals
A horse is beautiful
Who says a mustang cant be happy domesticated? There are plenty of people who adopt mustangs and they end up being the most loyal horse they have ridden and form a strong bond with thier owner and they never have to worry about when thier next meal is gonna come and are safe from predators and the harsh elements. A domesticated life isn't always the worse thing to happen to a mustang, there are worst things that can happen to them out in the wild. I agree that wild horses should stay free and in their natural habitat but the ones that do get adopted by good people are living a good life free of strife and hardship and are loved and that is true freedom, freedom from the cruelty of the world
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Freedom from the cruelty of the world is freedom from truly living. And living is more important than safety and comfort.
a horse is beautiful in the whole world
This is great thank you!
A falconer must be trained in an apprenticeship, or left wild. Let the wild horse remain free and wild.
MY famous horse breeds are Morgan, Przewaski's horse, Quarter Mile, Arabian, Paint,Appaloosa, Tennessese Walking,Shire,Clydesdale,Mustang,Palomino, Buckskin and Fjord.
It really hurts a lot to see the wild Mustang wiped out. One day there will not be any left for future generations to see
We traded real mustangs for ford mustangs
that one guy has a great stache
this one gets bleak. but it's definitely eye-opening.
Ever considered the possibility of the flood which caused the horse to disappear ?
We pay for the slaughter of billions to cows, pigs, sheep, goats (all just as sentient and sensitive emotionally aware as horses) etc and their babies and families. Legalised animal cruelty we don’t bat an eyelid about.
We are heartbroken over horses being killed but we actively pay for this with eating animals through the animal agriculture that is destroying environment and wildlife.
Exactly!! I eat very little meat, but haven’t eaten Beef for over 30 years. Living in Europe I’ve learned to respect animals and what comes on the table. I do eat Fowl, which also aren’t always treated correctly. And I do, although seldom, eat Pork, which also has a problem with proper handling and Slaughtering, but I do attempt to eat meat that is Butchered here in my area, without a long way to the Slaughterhouse and is Organically raised. And through the lack of controls a few Countries have faced the Horrors of Hoof and Mouth, and Schwein Pest disease. But one thing that has always seemed to baffle Me is with the amount of meat produced and eaten by Americans, and the fact that it’s relatively cheap compared to Europe, why is it that none of these diseases are ever found over there? Then I saw a documentary about how much medication the Fowl, Sheep, Pigs, and Cattle are given, and it explains why the Americans are so Fucking Stupid!! The cattle Ranches with Thousands of acres, with Thousands of cattle, giving off gases that affect the atmosphere, and taking the Land that was once Owned by the Original Americans, and Roamed by Their means of traveling and Their means of Nourishment, to be cast in the same Lot is totally American. I believe Americans are on this Earth to destroy it. That’s why Folks are traveling into Outerspace looking for another Planet to FUCKUP.
Beautiful gracel.creatures
Congress ! ask Ranchers for reducing their livestock instead of reducing horses herds. Fine the BLM staff when they show cruelty. Monitor the hand over of titles after a year. Ban sales and commercialization of horse meat, etc etc
So do something about it PEOPLE, It's all fine to say it's wrong and it's mismanaged then after the show walk away. And then keep paying out of your taxes to have this continue. That makes you the problem. Wake up!
What should they do? What are you doing?
@@flparrotz1 I don't live in your country which means I don't pay taxes in your country.
Those stockmen or the BLM have no right to fence our public lands for their grazing. How can we get those fences removed? It's supposed to be OPEN RANGE. And I I pray the BLM has improved their roundup techniques so they are no longer cruel!!!
The horses seem more intelligent than the abusive people. Leave the horses alone!
I've been to the Pryor mountain wild horse range Wich consists of 39,650 acres of some tough desert and mountain country. But only a total of 180 horse's live on the range.
Incredible video.
Now I have a better understanding of how the BLM and Forestry are failing our iconic native horses miserably.
well said it is the horse that raised us
It is so horrible what we humas are doing to animals, I am literally crying! 😥 Who gives us the right to treat these amazing, noble, very sensitive and beautiful animals the way we do?! They have a right to live free and enjoy a happy life in freedom. We have no right to capture, subdue or kill them! Once again, I am so ashamed to be a human 😥The world would be so much better off without us!
I'm sorry but I couldn't watch all of this. Truly heartbreaking...
We as humans beings should be ashamed of our past and what we have done to so many free and beautiful animals of our world.
DOG MEAT ????
Did they hurt anyone ?
How very cruel our ancestors were...
and a Government that rules the world with an iron fist and kills off..all the beauty in this world.
They have to control everything... even us.
So very sad. 🥺 🐴🐎
There is no such thing as freedom anymore, for anything or anyone.
Those who are fighting to save these beautiful animals have to fight hard, just to make a change. 😔
I hate seeing how there hitting these Beautiful Horses just to get them in there Trailers. This is so very wrong what did the Horses do to use that u have to Hit them shot them whip them beat them tie them up on the legs like that is so wrong .... 😇
I had a mare in 1969 of unknown origins. She was supposed to be six, but was pregnant with a third foal. I wondered if mustangs or other wild horses from N.America were being brought to Virginia in the 1960s. She does resemble some of the mustangs I have seen on youtubes lately. I have some photos, but nothing to provide any DNA. (That third foal was by a registered QH, Alkali Junior, who at the time my father bought the mare was in Va. He was said to have been owned by Aurthur Godfrey at one time. So I guess HE came from somewhere out west, originally.) Any way to figure it out? I have a lock of the foal's hair (but not roots).
We have wild horses here on the coast of North Carolina I saw a baby come into the world there.
I love the roans
That’s why when I adopt horses I take them back to my 200 acre property and set them free to graze. No more ropes, no more pens or coral. I have 12 horses and have never ridden any of them. Most have been tamed
Wow, that's so great! That's so kind, selfless, prudent and compassionate of you, I highly appreciate it and so do the horses too, certainly! You're a great man, thank you! :)
One of the most beautiful creatures on the planet..but the worst creature humans, f---k every thing up..🐴🐴🐴
Wild horse don't compete with deer, antelopes, mountain goats, moose, or elk these animals are all browsers. They eat bushes, trees, and brush. Where as sheep, and cattle compete with wild horses because all three-day grazes grass. So in my opinion is the Bureau Land Management should limit all domestic livestock on land which was set aside for the wild horses. Also when you separate a mare from her foal and disturb the family dynamics will cause the mare to come back in season/heat which will cause increase in the horse population. If you leave the family dynamics alone the horses won't increase that drastically.
What’s this is fastest and beautiful
The horse in Spanish is caballo.
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3:34 Cloud's mother Phoenix!
2 love horses
Arrow heads in Saskatchewan have been found with Horse Protein on them,....these arrow and spear heads date from some 11000 to 13000 years ago. Interesting...
All has to do with money-making. Greedy ranchers, overly greedy rancher.
Deleterious? Gonna drop that in casual conversation
So beautiful
Here's an idea' why not cut swales, place check-dams, scatter Bermuda-grass seed, and otherwise use Permaculture practices to improve and increase the amount of grass on those range-lands? Instead of squabbling over who gets the grass, why not grow more grass?
There is nothing more magical than a herd of wild horses running wild and free. My heart skips a beat with the thunderous pounding of their hooves as they make their way to the destination they desire. Humans are the cruelest of all beast that roam this land, it is by our own doing that so many horses have been lost and I’m sure they won’t change anytime soon, till maybe it’s the human race that is endangered.
You need to read about the Younger Dryas ice age, and the cataclysmic events, that caused 70% of all animals to die.
I'm truly fascinated by the vitriol in the comments on this video, has anyone taken time to learn what the current situation is, the helicopter in the footage around 30 minutes in is nearly 50 years old and isn't used anymore this may have been posted 8 months ago but the documentary is pushing half a century old come on people
I realize this is going to be an unpopular opinion in this comment section but it appears that these horses aren't being viewed with the same lenses as we do with other wild animals and domesticated livestock.
Other cultures view pigs and cattle as we do horses as a food source. I share the sentiment and romanticism of seeing a mustang living in the wild, it is the iconic American wild west. That doesn't remove them from the food chain. We are fortunate that we have the ability to make and use tools that has given us the ability to be apex predators and off the menu of other apex predators. If we were to roll the clock back 10,000 years we weren't so fortunate. If you want to reduce the number of animals removed from the wild then WE need to reduce OUR need for natural resources. Everything we do impacts our need for resources. If you want to see more wild horses eat less pork or beef. Ask yourself if you need to have a dog or cat. Reduce our population by limiting the number of children you have. Reduce your use of electricity and addiction to the internet, travel, luxury goods etc. Everything we do as humans has an impact on the world we share and the animals we live with. If you want to scale up the number of wild horses you need to scale down your consumption of resources. The need for a new phone may not seem linked to the number of wild horses but I assure you that it is. The links may not be apparent but everything is linked in some way and the goods and services you use have an impact on the world around you.
Agreed. Though in addition there is also a need to restore North America's top predators so that they may exert top-down regulation on their prey (including feral horses & burros), especially considering how unwilling humans appear to be towards killing feral horses & burros. Those predators being wolves, black bears, grizzlies, and Jaguars. As well as add additional protections to the only wide-spread top predators remaining in western North America (also where most feral equids reside in North America): Cougars.
In western North America, most feral horses & burros live on public land, primarily BLM (Bureau of Land Management) owned-land, it's also these same public lands that ranchers like to bring their cattle & other non-feral, privately owned domesticated livestock to forage. So to protect the cows & other livestock, the cougars are heavily hunted, to the point their populations are dominated by what amounts to teenagers. Young & inexperienced, they are incapable of preying upon equids except for neonates.
However, even in the few places where they aren't hunted, the effectiveness of Cougars as predators of horses & burros varies from place to place due to the fact that, as ambush predators, Cougars require either dense vegetation or broken topography (or both) in order to effectively prey upon feral equids. And even then, cougars can only prey upon young horses that are roughly a year old. And this is why it's important to restore North America's top predators.
Really we could use our resources in more collective and sustainable ways and have the best of both worlds. We could protect the environment and also have a new phone. Starvation isn't around because there isn't enough food. We just don't consider it our duty to eliminate it by allocating resources accordingly.
Is it possible that horses on the far western side of the US went north along the coastline up into Canada and just stayed there to create the wild horse herds that we have today?
Remember this 9 years a Stallion doesn’t mean he’s going to live and train out some chose to die on you
Be prepared for hard facts that they don’t tell you and the risk for these horses is real! There’s only one answer that’s Freedom! I done seen Stallions die from heartbreak and simply not breakable! You can’t keep a wild horse unless you follow strict guidelines so watch what you wish for you may end up broken hearted like my sister.
Sometimes what seems best still isn’t the best way!
Rodeos across the country
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Mustang are so beautiful and should be treasured for part of America history not destroyed because there are some people just do not like horses
Hearing about your reference to the "evolution of a horse is not only offensive to me as an old horse lover it's very offensive to the Supreme God who created them. The horse is a great creation of God . The horse show the creativity of God and is one of the greatest of God's creation . So stop insulting this creation by refering to millions of years.
Leave theses beautiful equines alone...stop slaughtering them.
There plenty of space out there for them.
Why do evil walnut brained individuals want to cull them.
Shame on you.
36:03 You can tell by his body language and hesitation that rancher doesn’t even believe his own bullsh*t.
Time to bring back the camels!
When the most feral and destructive species in Nth America - the modern human - decides whether another species is (more) feral...
Someone knows what's the soundtrack ?
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100,000 since 1973??? That ratio sucks rocks. I bet they've had more die/sent to slaughter than that.
If the wild herds were deemed native it would open the door to management by hunting under the jurisdiction of States. The Federal government management was set to take control of the horses from the States.
I have nervous rage watching these BLANK BLANK INHUMANE PEOPLE treat the horses so disrespectfully!
Help the animals out the best way you can or try to find a animal doctor.
I agree!!
Leave them alone!!!
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Los podrían pasar en español
Desculpe não falo espanhol,nem russo nem ingles entendo muito pouco mas algumas pessoas passam minhas ideias falando nestas línguas, eu só dou sugestões para ajudar pessoas qualquer coisa que disserem que seja para prejudicar que falem em meu nome não é verdadeiro.esta raça de cavalo é linda se separarem por cores as manchas ficaram mais bonitas e se misturem manchas marrons e manchas pretas.
I believe in let the horses alone humans are the cause of stress to these horses.cows cause more damage to land than wild horses
Hmmmm seem to disappear at the same time as Noah's ark? That's so strange?!!
I believe that all wild horses should be able to roam free and for whoever out there how would you like it if you were done the way that they were done set them free and let them live their life wild and freedom and just watching what I just watched these wild horses were slaughtered makes me sick and to me that's sad where is American coming to 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸☹️
Whoever did the subtitles for this film was obviously unfamiliar with the subject matter. It's a bit irritating.
Hopefully they will always come"home". If man will allow the earth to live,. Sad state of affairs.,these days.
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Lol, Caballo is the Spanish name for Horse… dont be calling a wild horse “caballo” unless you understand that, lol.
I could not watch those men beating them 😡😢😢😢 It breaks my heart !! All of the horses being chased and terrified of the helicopter ... I watched most of this video , but I could not watch the cruelty!! Leave them alone , they run from man for a reason and to force them to slaughter or whatever other “ BRILLIANT “ idea some rich rancher has in mind is nauseating to say the least !!!
They should be moved on to national parks and protected areas
Cattle and sheep off GOVERNMENTS LAND .THATS MY LAND
Gonna disagree with the horses being the most “social constructed” group of animals. There’s so many of them all with complex social grouping. Take the wolves for example, lions as well. And by far one of the most sophisticated of them is the orcas which literally within each group have their OWN language just as if two people who speak Spanish and English wouldn’t be able to communicate that easily. So yeah, horses are very socially amazing but let’s not make them seem like they’re the best out there 💀
I think maybe, he said it that way because to so many ( cattle ranchers ) in particular consider wild horses less then valuable,, when in truth they have much to be admired. Nice roll call by the way,, naming some of the best, without needing to think about it... Lol
The horses were there first!! It's like with the First Nation, they were there first! Keep your Livestock on your own property!
Actually there are now! They have found a site where humans were obviously killing horses And eating them. So yes, it could be that humans killed all the horses.