Wild horses and donkeys survive in DESERTS through an innate instinct to find buried water
Wild horses and donkeys are able to survive in the desert by using an innate instinct they have to find water buried up to 6ft below the ground, a new study reveals. This same instinctive radar for underground water drives them to dig wells that in turn help other animals and plants that live within the same arid ecosystem. That is according to a team from the University of Technology Sydney who surveyed a number of dryland ecosystems in the Sonoran Desert of North America. Lead author Erick Lundgren says well digging horses and donkeys are an 'often overlooked form of ecosystem engineer...
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