In ancient Greece, it was a common sight to see the poor beggars get picked off by a group wild horses. Descending quickly, these large animals would pummel prey to submission before gorging.
It had gotten to a point where the horses became more lethal than the belligerent royal guards, who would also occasionally be eaten by muscular stallions.
Imagine being a child, waking up suddenly to the pain of an animal biting your leg. You look up to see a mare many times your size with your bloody calve in its teeth. You scream, big mistake, it releases your leg and put its mouth on your throat, drawing blood. When you finally stop struggling, having drowned in the contents of your split-open jugular, the horse turns its head to your stomach and begins eating.
With all this horror, someone came up and said "Yeah, let me try riding one", sounds crazy, but it worked eventually.
My question is, how did this happen exactly? And in such short time?
A pony, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Hellenistic Period. You get your first look at this "18 hands pony" as you enter a clearing. He moves like an ungulate, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like cattle - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Horse. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two horses you didn't even know were there. Because Horse's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this...A six-inch hardened hoof, like a hammer, from fused toes. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here. Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect
Christopher Sanchez
They aren't anymore, no, but pre-domestication they ate meat and hunted in packs like wolves.
Asher Allen
i think they need to be untamed and let loose through the towns and cities.
Gavin Phillips
Hey I wanna fuck that
Justin Edwards
What? No
Ryder Bell
Is this thread real? Why am I here?cWhy does it make me horny?
Easton Sanchez
Interesting question, I guess someone did and it spread, wonder where it first happened probably not europe
Anthony Morris
Subdues them with the power of the cock
Levi Foster
Not even horses can defeat the cock
Luis Brown
Uuuuuuh... source on this?
Carson James
How can men even compete?
Parker Ward
while the eating meat stuff is the usual american retardation the reason we could domesticate horses is because they are indeed pack animals
capture the alfa and break it, the stud will follow
Colton Anderson
We all know the most effective way to break the alpha is by fucking it mercilessly.
Aiden Fisher
milk
Lincoln Phillips
I think researchers now believe it was somewhere on the Eurasian steppes. So basically from Hungary to Mongolia, somewhere in there some guy figured out he could sit on its back and it became the iconic steppe warfare machine for millenia.
Brayden Butler
Is this a real thread or did I suffer a stroke? Horses are herbivores, and have always been herbivores. They don't have the teeth or the gut necessary for eating meat. They might bite to attack, but they didn't fucking eat people.
>sometimes people feed horses meat or blood >horses can be violent just like any other animal >myths and legends
Oh wow user, totally won me over. I totally believe that pre-domesticated horses were vicious pack hunters XD
Aiden Martinez
I didn't know horses were this aggressive.
Nicholas Lopez
put all those three green texts together and now imagine many thousands of years in the past. to me it's conceivable that horses were once carnivores of a sort, if not opportunistic ones, and the details described in that article are vestigial elements from a primordial past.
Jaxson Cruz
We can go back 10 million years ago, and even then the horse's ancestor was a herbivore. Horses lack fundamental structures necessary to digest meat in a meaningful matter.
Jose Scott
Didn't you watch Spirit?
Isaiah Smith
Rule number one when you go around horses is to never walk behind them, because they will kick you if you approach from that direction. Also, you should look up some videos of horses fighting for dominance in their herd.
David Gray
I like your way of thinking.
Leo Green
The only "proof" for this is the Labors of Heracles. Not exactly the most reliable source, are you going to claim that bulls can breathe fire because Jason saw one that could?
>How did we domesticate these things? you have it backwards
Juan Brown
Nobody thought of sitting on horses for millenia after they were domesticated, retard. Also, wild horses were somewhat smaller than domestic horses that we bred.
Daniel Moore
Actually quite a few people throughout the world fed meat to horses up until recently.
Nicholas Garcia
Are you fucking serious? It is well known that bos taurus primigenius could breathe fire. That's why there are none left, they were too dangerous.
Nicholas Robinson
Texts that use ſ always sound lisping uin my head.
