Emily Sexson
Lee Richardson Zoo
July 15 is “I Love Horses Day”, a day dedicated to the magnificent animals that are loved for their beauty as well their ability to provide transportation, clear fields, move cattle, and of course, companionship. Horses have been domesticated since 4000 BC, and there are more than 300 different breeds of horses today.
There are some feral populations of domesticated horses that live in the wild, such as mustangs. Mustangs are free-roaming horses that have descended from domestic horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. The only true wild horses are those that have never been domesticated.