Meet Portugal's 20,000-Year-Old Wild Horses

[@Pumpkintiti]

CAN WE GET A FULL EPISODE ON THESE WILD BEAUTIFUL, REMARKABLE HORSES?

[@falanajerido875]

They're beautiful to short need more

[@DiogoF.]

Fantastic scenery. 🇵🇹 However it is so tragic that Portugal is regularly devastated by wildfires and lack of adequate amounts of rain.

[@skurinski]

this region of Portugal gets lots and lots of rain and has a temperate rainforest biome

It's in The Parque Nacional of Penêda-Gerês and these beautiful horses are called GARRÂNOS!

[@jeffdavis5723]

*Thanks **#NATURE** on **#PBS** for another great video.*

[@SongDog9]

Portugal needs more national parks

[@julieprior3126]

A 'cloak of fog' probably wouldn't make them safer when the wolves' primary sense is smell.

[@susanb4846]

Julie... I caught that too!! 😆

[@danitaross403]

My first thought too, hope I was wrong wish I hadn't read the comments, oh well we are predatory planet. Happy Day to everyone this is beautiful!

[@billyyank5807]

They rely on sight to hunt. Not scent. Winds change they'd lose scent. That doesn't make sense at all.

[@seraphywang4638]

@@billyyank5807 Also if a cloak of fog settles, the wind speed probably isnt very high and scents wont carry far at all

[@paulafigueiredo1745]

Really beautiful. Is this in Peneda-Gerês National Park? Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@canaldospassarosvgar1180]

Spirit

[@shubhashismishra2694]

I am a Indian village boy❤

[@shinyher0396]

That's some pretty old horses

[@SMACKADOOS]

OMG first comment 🤠

[@SMACKADOOS]

Congrats!🎉

[@rolmodel12.]

😆🤣 Well done

[@nightmaresans8243]

1:42 so no gonna talk about this part?

[@danielparker5631]

The Son's of JAPHETH were well adapted to their ancestors

[@tugadmundo]

I always thought that this horses were descendents of those that escaped the Roman Legions

[@cm1642]

5 ft tall at the shoulder?

[@maryrose4409]

I have a Sulphur Horse that has the DNA of the Garrano and Turkoman She is from the Sulpher heard in Utah, which we are desperately trying to save. BLM has taken their numbers down. There are only about 250 left in the wild. Please, if you can look up the sulphur Horse, and if there’s any way you can help us save this beautiful herd, it would be greatly appreciated

[@billyyank5807]

Let's see these wolves......

[@Ree1981]

This guy's voice sounds like a guy badly impersonating Morgan Freeman, in a parody.

[@kimnoel9873]

The Wild Garrano Horses From Portugal. ⛹🏻‍♂️🐴🇵🇹💎🥤🛻💙⭐️❤️

[@christophersnedeker2065]

These horses are feral domestic horses they haven't lived here for 20,000 years.

[@rolmodel12.]

How do you know this? Just curious, I don't know- so I have no grounds to debate you. Is it something about the horses physiology, something you can spot?

[@bosniakedisniksic]

@@rolmodel12. check my comment on the video. It addresses the domestication of horses. Although I don't have a degree in Equine biology, I do have a degree in Anthropology which is the study of humans. my focus was in Biological and Cultural Anthropology. Part of the includes the study of evolution in general but also specifically to human evolution. Couple that with the need to understand and study the domestication of plants and animals and their importance to the humans that domesticated them; I have a pretty good grasp on horse evolution and the cultures that relied on them. If you want learn more about horse evolution try looking on youtube, soooo many great science education channels have made videos on them. Maybe try out PBS Eons and Ben G Thomas. If you'd like to learn about the people that may have domesticated them, check out videos made by Dan Davis Author. He has a lot on the early steppe cultures and horse domestication.

[@rolmodel12.]

@@bosniakedisniksic I, sincerely, hope that I did not offend in my questioning. I am just a, naturally, curious individual. Having said that, I will definitely seek out your comment on the video. PBS Eons and Ben G Thomas (whom, I sure you know, has multiple channels) are both excellent, I agree! I, myself, have a degree in Environmental Science, with my focus being in Botanical Ecology. So, I completely understand the need to understand the domestication of plants and animals, as it pertains to our own evolution (and in each others, for that matter). I often argue that, while fire, the wheel, and written language, are vastly important; agriculture should be considered amongst the greatest feats of humanity.

[@rolmodel12.]

@@bosniakedisniksic just realized, you were not the OP. Lol. And I did check your comment- good info! I have a rabbit (horse?) hole to explore, it seems. Thank you for your reply, and suggestions! They will not go unheeded.

[@luistheserrano4785]

Are you a comedian?...you don't need to be an expert in Garranos, just have to see them a few times to understand how they have lived there for thousands of years and kept their genetics unchanged...feral horse, ah, ah, what an idiot

[@lisaawild]

Hopefully those don't get rounded up and slaughtered like the wild horses in the USA and Australia!

[@proudlywild1491]

Well I mean, they have always been there I mean. That’s like rounding up rabbits or somthing

[@bosniakedisniksic]

it's impossible that these horses lived there for 20,000 years. They look nothing like true wild horses and instead look like feral domestic horses. Horses weren't domesticated until about 6,000 to 4,500 years ago and that was way out in the Eurasian Steppe. Europe's original wild horses died out by then.

[@terra7066]

Probably longer , they say 20 000 because there are cave paintings in the area with Garranos from 20 000 years ago.

[@shubhashismishra2694]

Hi❤❤ am from India❤

[@proudlywild1491]

Gotta no horses have been feral there for at least 2000 years but before them there were just wild horses

[@lh8593]

it would be better without all of the fake added in horse whinnies. Horses just don't make that much noise on a regular basis

[@leejones8485]

How would you know how much noise a wild horse makes?

[@CaptainSteve777]

Why do PBS narrators always have cringy creepy voices?

[@ifjchsiwocjcjs4378]

I absolutely love these horses but they definitely arent 20,000 years old. If they were they would look more like przewalskis horses

[@TheBaryck]

They don't look like przewalskis horses because the environment is very different than where przewalskis horses are. Horse's colors are adapted to the climate and landscape. In this humid area (northern of Portugal), garranos need a brown hairs color to dry faster by capturing more efficiently the sunrays.

[@Zach-ku6eu]

#Shorts Are Not Content! Just pure laziness.