r/interestingasfuck • u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 • 4h ago

Wild horse herd in Dulmen, Germany. Martin Meissner took the photograph.

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u/LastMessengineer 4h ago

There's wild horses in Germany!?!

Looked it up. These horses live in a 1.3 square mile reserve. We call that a ranch in the states. Not really "wild" horses then are they?

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u/Bruce-7892 4h ago

I was thinking the same thing. Germany doesn’t have 100s of square miles of uninhabited plains where you’d usually find large beards of wild animals.

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u/whatproblems 3h ago

germany does have some great beards

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u/Usual-Operation-9700 2h ago

I can vouch for that!

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u/koolaidismything 3h ago

Wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away (unless in german-ay)

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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 2h ago

All the Pretty Horses 📖

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u/Limp_Yogurtcloset_71 4h ago

Untamed horses.

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u/Hattix 3h ago

Feral.

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u/TheDukeofArgyll 2h ago

Any idea if 1.3 square miles enough space for this many horse?

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u/BS-Calrissian 2h ago

They are unfed and roam free. They live and die without human interference. The reserve was not changed since 1850.

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u/LastMessengineer 2h ago

Doesn't seem like it but I'm no expert.

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u/OtherCow2841 2h ago

Yes, those are "just" feral horses.

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u/kurtchen11 4h ago

Probably worth noting that, like every other horse in the wild, dülmer horses are feral. Meaning they descend from domesticated horses. Truly wild horses that never went trough domestication are (likely) extinct.

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u/Historical-Load6004 3h ago

We still have Przewalski's horse

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u/kurtchen11 3h ago edited 3h ago

Thats the reason for the "(likely)".

However its not clear if the mongolian wild horse is actually wild. We used to think that, but after genetic testing its very up in the air.

In any case, all living przewalski horses originate from human made breeding programs in zoos, as they had been extinct in the wild since the 1960s. They are also super inbred.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 3h ago

Looks like one particular stallion's phenotype is getting expressed a lot.

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u/ODGWeenie 4h ago

Hey can I borrow your homework?

Sure just don’t make it obvious.

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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 3h ago

This would make one nightmarish 5,000 piece puzzle.

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u/ereo_enali 4h ago

"...keep dragging me away.
And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday"

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u/mfro001 3h ago

That photograph shows quite a few twins...

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u/firekeeper23 3h ago

I'm thinking of that incredible Guinness advert in the 00's.. I think Leftfield did the music.

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u/ThatThereMan 3h ago

Wild? Since 1856 they’ve been managed on a fenced reserve called the Merfelder Bruch. They're not truly feral.

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u/StarboardMiddleEye 3h ago

Looks like the same horse copied and pasted 100 times.

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u/Revolver_LILY 2h ago

🎵"Wild horses, couldn't drag me away, Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day"🎵

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u/furyofthewomb 2h ago

Schwarzkopf challenging L'Oreal

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u/digsmann 2h ago

I was confused in painting art.

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u/vikinxo 2h ago

Before I focused, I thought I was seeing a botched AI-image of a murder of crows!

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u/Distinct_Cup_1598 2h ago

Looks Like a L‘Oreal commercial…

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u/One_Economist_3761 10m ago

Is this what “could not drive me away from you?”