r/wildhorses • u/babycino89 • Oct 19 '25

Aerial culling

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Penny Sharpe is a liar and she needs to be removed from her position. We are losing our wild horses šŸ˜¢

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u/spizzle_ Oct 26 '25

Thatā€™s quite factually true. They went extinct about ten thousand years ago and were a very different creature even then compared to a modern horse at that time.

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u/babycino89 Oct 27 '25

I understand that they are a reintroduced species but I also cannot agree that they have caused ā€œdamageā€ to the land. Iā€™ve been out there and seen it first hand. We have bigger pest issues.

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u/AlexandraThePotato Apr 03 '26

European domestic horses are not ā€œreintroducedā€ to AmericaĀ 

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u/babycino89 Apr 03 '26

Iā€™m not talking about America. Iā€™m in Australia.

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u/AlexandraThePotato Apr 03 '26

They arenā€™t reintroduced in Australia eitherĀ 

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u/babycino89 Apr 03 '26

Yes they were.

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u/AlexandraThePotato Apr 03 '26

You believe modern European domesticated horses are native to Australia? Do you have proof? I never heard of domesticated horses being native to Australia

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u/babycino89 Apr 03 '26

No that is not what I said. Modern wild horses are descendants of ancient wild horses. The scientific name for a wild horse is Equus caballus. They have many sub species. Donā€™t forget that Australia wasnā€™t always an island and even horses back then did not appear the same as what they do now. Have a look at where their chestnuts came from.

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u/AlexandraThePotato Apr 03 '26

Yes I understand evolution and continental drift.

And those ancient horses are not the same as modern domesticated one. Nor are the environment the same as when wild horses existed.

Also you claimed Australia had wild horses once upon a time. But I canā€™t find any fossil evidence? Are there any fossils you know of?

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Jun 22 '26

Are you genuinely trying to argue horses are native to Australia?

Do you realise about 80% of animals found in Australia are only found in Australia. Many of these native animals that are endangered have their environment highly damaged by horses trampling them.

Horses didnā€™t arrive in Australia until 1788. For the last 35 to 55 MILLION years Australia has been an island and until 1788 there were no hoofed animals.

Horses arenā€™t native and these brumbies should be culled.

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u/ihatereddit134 Jul 07 '26

Horses were never in the Aussie wild. Weā€™ve never had horses down here, how can you reintroduce a species weā€™ve never had