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Photo Olesya Nickoloeva
Horses & Freedom
I had been waiting so long to run free, but that good-bye was harder than I ever imagined. I’ll never forget that boy. And how we won back our freedom together. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook
A Record of Horseback Riding, Written in Bone and Teeth
An article published yesterday (11/13/2020) in the New York Times explores the timeline of equestrianism in ancient China based on the discovery of a collection of full horse skeletons. (link included in reblog)
The advent of horseback riding transformed our ancestors’ lives, irrevocably changing how they migrated, fought wars and traded. Now, researchers have found the oldest direct evidence of horseback riding in China, which could help unlock the historical timeline of how the civilization was affected by a newfound ability to get around on four legs.
While neighboring civilizations — such as those in the area now known as Mongolia — had been riding since roughly 1200 B.C., the timing and details of the rise of horsemanship in China have long remained murky, said William Taylor, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History in Boulder.
But the new study to which he contributed, published last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that mounted equestrianism in China goes back as far as 350 B.C. That is consistent with the belief that horseback riding enhanced Chinese military might and contributed to the formation of the first unified empire during the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century B.C., and also helped catalyze the Silk Road trading route through China.
Dr. Taylor and his colleagues, led by Yue Li and Jian Ma of Northwest University in Xi’an, China, analyzed eight largely intact horse skeletons roughly 2,400 years old excavated in northwestern China. Having access to the animals’ entire bodies was a boon, Dr. Taylor said. “Usually we’re working with bits and pieces.”
The team started by examining the horses’ vertebrae. Of the roughly 240 vertebrae the team studied, over 60 percent exhibited abnormalities like excessive bone growth, fusion and fractures. These pathologies were most common in the lumbar and thoracic vertebrae making up the lower back.
That’s telling, said Katherine Kanne, an archaeologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. who was not involved in the research. A horse’s lower back bears most of the stress from being ridden, she said.
Dr. Taylor and his collaborators next studied the skulls of seven of the horses. They found that six exhibited pronounced grooves in the bones of their nose. This pathology can arise in a horse that was worked strenuously, Dr. Taylor said, because heavy breathing causes certain muscles to become overdeveloped, which can in turn alter bone structure. “The depth of this groove is sort of a proxy for how heavily exerted an animal has been over its life.”
The scientists then analyzed the horses’ teeth. Dr. Taylor and his colleagues found that of the six horses with intact teeth, all showed signs of abrasion on their lower second premolars, consistent with traumatic contact between a bit and the horse’s teeth, Dr. Taylor said. A rider tugging sharply on the reins would pull the bit backward in the horse’s mouth, he said. “It can be yanked backward so far that it smacks into the teeth.”
Taken together, these bone and tooth abnormalities are textbook examples of what happens when horses are ridden heavily, said Alan Outram, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, not involved in the research. “There’s no question that these horses are riding horses.”
Tracing the emergence of horseback riding is the first step to better understanding how this practice catalyzed crucial changes across China, Dr. Taylor said.
“We don’t know how horses went from being an animal that was primarily pulling chariots to one that was engaging in sophisticated cavalry combat,” he said. “Here are some clues to that story.”
Link to article found here,
But I know that the NY Times is paywalled and I want people to get to share in the article because it’s fascinating! Especially the bit about the grooves in the skull
Old Town Road but he just keeps listing all the places he has horses
I got the horses in the back horses on the track horses in the shack and I got horses fetching snacks
I got the horses in earth core down under the floor horses in the store and I got horses on the moor
i’m gonna take this horse to the old town road
so i can
have a horse on the old town road
The Peel is an offshoot of the Onion but honestly if someone told me this was real slam poetry I wouldn’t even question it
I had been waiting so long to run free, but that good-bye was harder than I ever imagined. I’ll never forget that boy. And how we won back our freedom together. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook
I had been waiting so long to run free, but that goodbye was harder than I ever imagined. I’ll never forget that boy and how we won back our freedom together.
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The Holy Trinity
Gorgeous Bráinn ✨ Those little cowlicks near his cheekbones are so special to me, because they come from the Kvika frá Brún bloodline.... his grandmother Krækja and great grandmother Drottning both had swirls on the sides of their faces, so when I worked in Iceland I got it into my head that only the very best horses have these special swirls. When he arrived this winter, I had only ever seen him in his fuzzy foal coat or winter hair, so I was so excited when he finally shedded out this summer and I could see that he had inherited the swirls 😍
Bráinn is for sale - his full sales video can be found here: https://youtu.be/Wh12DlYD0ws
Via the IAABC Facebook Page
Source Paper: Social Referencing in the Domestic Horse
Transcript of the top 2 Images in this post:
"It’s Science Says Sunday!
Previous studies have shown that dogs and cats use social referencing. In other words, they use human emotional information in an unfamiliar situation to guide their behavior. This study looked at whether horses can also use human emotional information to adjust their behavior to a novel object.
To test this, an experimenter positioned in the middle of an arena directed their gaze and voice towards the novel object using either a positive or a negative emotional expression. The researchers measured the duration of the horse's position to the experimenter and the object, frequency of gazing behavior, and physical interactions with either the object or experimenter.
Horses in the “positive condition” showed less avoidance behavior towards the novel object compared to horses in the “negative condition”. Horses in the “negative condition” showed an increase in vigilant behavior, suggesting that horses do use emotional cues from humans to guide their behavior towards novel objects.
There were also differences in breed types — thoroughbreds showed less human-directed behavior than warmbloods and ponies."
Raini and Cade full sibling Spanish Barbs
COMPAÑERO RB II & SEVILLANO RB Yeguada Valle Miñor Galicia
Alberto Martínez Photos
Spanish horses have the best lips of all horses
Imagine having a shitty picture of you taken at a show but then it ends up on the german wikipedia page of the German Warmblood
if you add leg and pull on the reins at the same time, your horse takes a screenshot
To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.
USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!
Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:
/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless
/r/freelance /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme
/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions
I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE
most of those threads require karma and for ur account to be a certain age they also rarely if ever offer direct mutual aid in the form of money they’re more for advice and was v clearly not well researched
like no one wants to ebeg so if u dont like seeing donation posts unfollow and move on
I had been waiting so long to run free, but that good-bye was harder than I ever imagined. I’ll never forget that boy. And how we won back our freedom together. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook