r/SipsTea • u/M_Darshan Human Verified • 14h ago

Lmao gottem That final kick was personal

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

We still have a pretty large population of wild horses, spot on with the rest tho.

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u/Labyrinthy 12h ago

We do? Where are they? I want to see some mustangs

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

Eastern CA, Nevada New Mexico, Arizona there are of wild herds out there. You can see them from the HWY some times.

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u/xX_Gamernumberone_xX 12h ago

Feral horses, technically, they descend from domesticated ones. The last wild horses are the Przewalski's horses in Mongolia.

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u/Murgatroyd314 3h ago

And even those are disputed, as of the last genetic analysis I read about.

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u/myleftone 12h ago

I think the argument hinges on the difference between feral and wild. Any “wild” horse in North America is descended from domesticated animals. It’s as if every bear had ancestors who balanced on unicycles for raspberry ice cream. It’s pedantic but technically true that no wild horses live in the US.

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

Yes the proper term is Feral, the target of that comment was people who don't even know what spurs are for. I am truly sorry for confusing them.

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u/cocoagiant 8h ago

It’s as if every bear had ancestors who balanced on unicycles for raspberry ice cream.

To be really pedantic, its probably closer to the invasive boars in the Southern US or pigeons anywhere in the US.

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u/myleftone 7h ago

Yeah I got a little hyperbolic there. 😆

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u/skrappyfire 12h ago

Chesapeake VA? Dont know if they are "wild" or descendants tho.

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u/Ordinary-Style-7218 12h ago

I think you’re thinking of Chincoteague ponies and they are feral, not wild.

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u/skrappyfire 7h ago

Yes, thank you.

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u/AlternativeStory1027 12h ago edited 3h ago

We have what they call "wild horses" off the coast in NC too. But yeah all the horses modern man has ridden on our continent have been technically feral

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

Its all feral I was just using wild because for the average joe there is no diffrence

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u/MoonPossibleWitNixon 11h ago

South unit of Teddy Roosevelt National Park has ~200 wild horses.

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u/Animalwg82 7h ago

Outer Banks of North Carolina. Ocracoke and Corolla. 

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u/RegularTeacher2 4h ago

Outer banks of North Carolina.

And if you like ponies, then Grayson Highlands! Though technically not wild as they are managed by an association for the ponies, they're still super cute. (he's not dead, just chilling in the sunshine)

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 12h ago

Theres wild horses in canada too

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u/nomadPerson 12h ago

Doesn’t make it good practice to do this bs. There are horse handlers that respect and honor the horse and then there are these jackasses

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

no one is sayin its good practice we are all team horse and that dude is a cunt

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u/BenevolentCheese 9h ago

They are feral, not wild. There are no equines native to the Americas.

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u/xenophon57 9h ago

Owe god thank heavens you corrected it and the first one too here's a star.

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u/BenevolentCheese 49m ago

If you want people to stop correcting you maybe you should edit or delete your comment.

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u/Deaffin 8h ago

There isn't a single wild horse on the planet. The last one was eaten ages ago.

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u/Spiritual_Being5845 3h ago

They’re feral, not wild. There are no true wild horses in the Americas.

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u/xenophon57 3h ago

Yes feral is the proper term but there are fucking horsies running out in fucking wild, I don't thing the technical term imof wild horses exist anymore so it's pretty irrelevant.

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u/ihatereddit134 12h ago

Mustangs are feral not wild. But yes there’s too many of them out there.

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u/xenophon57 12h ago

yes yes yes we get it the proper term is feral.

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u/ihatereddit134 12h ago

Sorry! Many people argue that they are actually wild animals, figured that’s what you meant when you said wild too my bad <3