Do horses have a natural environment?

Question

You know are there such thing as horses born in the wild? do they have a natural environment like lions and bears etc.? and horses having natural prey or predators. ? it seems that the only time i see horses are caught by human beings.

Answer 1

Horses were native to the plains of North America. They died out but were re-introduced by European explorers.

Answer 2

Horses have been bred in captivity so long that they have become a distinct species, like dogs.  The horses usually called "wild" are feral horses; the offspring of escaped horses, living as wild animals.

There is actually a species of horse, the Mongolian horse, distinct from the domestic horse but a lot like it, which lives in Asia.  They used to live on the steppes, anywhere with shrubby habitat, but have been reduced to the edges of the Gobi desert.  Some live in the Gobi desert.  These horses are becoming quite rare, but efforts are being made to preserve them in the wild as well as in zoos.

There used to be a Eurasian wild horse, or Tarpan, living through much of Europe and Asia, but it went extinct in the wild.  But since a lot of people had bred their domestic horses with this horse, the gene characteristics still exist, and they are trying to breed it back to the original form to fill its original place in the ecosystem. They lived in steppes and forests.

So I think your answer is, forests and plains like the steppes.

Answer 3

Yes, horses evolved in plains type ecosystems.  What used to be common throughout the Midwestern USA.  Look at the zebra of Africa.  They live in open country with lots of grasslands, savannas.   There are horse fossils dating back 57 million years ago from North America.

http://www.bbhc.org/unbrokenSpirit/evolu...

Answer 4

Horses are a domestic species. Their environment is wherever their owners live. There are populations of horses living in wild habitats, such as mustangs in North America and brumbies in Australia, but these are feral horses - domestic horses that are living wild - not true wild species.

The only wild horse species is the Przewalski's horse, which lives on the open steppes of Mongolia.

Answer 5

They live in fields (Mid west), and just eat grass.

I don't think they're hunted or hunt anything.