This message is from: "Monica Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Amy said:
> The big issue is the difference between "Native Wildlife" and "Feral > Species". Feral horses are the same genetically as domesticated horses. Wild Buffalo > are certainly NOT the same as cattle. The Buffalo evolved here, the horses were > brought here by "us" and let loose. Yup, mostly true, but although our mustangs and other wild horses are feral animals, horses did in fact evolve here (they later became extinct in the Americas although fortunately they'd spread across the land bridge into Asia by then). When horses were brought here by the Europeans, they settled right back into their old ecological niche. Monica in Nelson, BC
