Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4642203-20160201111439/@comment-4642203-20160206123152

Candiesrgood wrote:

Imperium Guy wrote:

Candiesrgood wrote: I think it will survive into the contemporary era as well. However, I think it'll have a smaller population range due to the reestablishment of the world's growth forests after the eve of the Holocene interglacial, which will limit its habitat (open spaces such as grasslands or steppes). Well its bone structure is found to be similar to Arabian horses and Arabian horses have spread all across the world due to their desireability as they possess qualities like long endurance capabilities and stamina and are generally faster than European horses. So although initially their habitat may be restricted, once domesticated they will most certainly spread to probably all across North America as tribes with these horses hold a huge advantage to tribes without these horses. You don't understand, equids are grazers and have their abilities to cope with the barren, open-spaced steppes prevalent in much of North America during the Pleistocene. Though they lack several stomach chambers found in ruminant artiodactyls, they can digest fibrous material (such as their principal food, grass), through a series of very long intestines to facilitate the steady absorption of nutrients. The sudden change in the environment to open spaced to forests would render their capabilities useless (no one runs in a densely forested area), and this coupled with human hunting will probably drive them to extinction. Yes, we understand that, but if humans realise the potential to domesticate, they would create suitable pastures for the horses to graze on, therefore improving their chances of survival. Humans would clear areas for grass to grow and the horses to thrive. The domestication by humans would open up many more potential habitats, as humans know how to care for their animals.