Mustang Horse - Anita

• ·         Mustangs are horses that descend from Spanish, or Iberian that were brought to America by Spanish people in the 16th century. The word Mustang comes from Mustengo, which means "ownerless horse" or "stray horse."
• ·         The last prehistoric North American horses died out between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, but by then Equus had spread to Asia, Europe, and Africa. 
• ·         After the Spanish reintroduced Mustangs to America, Native Americans use these beasts for transportation.
• ·         Mustangs are a medium-sized breed of horse. They measure around 14 to 15 hands. Mustangs have a wide variety of colors. Usually, they are bay, which is a reddish brown, or sorrel, which is a chestnut color. They can also have a variety of colors, patches, spots and stripes.
• ·         Horses are omnivores, so they eat plants and oats. Mustangs are wild horses, so they eat grass and brush.
• ·         Mustangs live in the grassland areas of the western United States. The Bureau of Land Management manages the U.S. mustang population and allows the horses run free on 34 million acres of public land. About 271,000 mustangs have been removed from private land by the government since 1971, according to the American Wild Horse Preservation Organization. Most of the mustang populations are found in the Western states of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, California, Arizona, North Dakota and New Mexico. Some also live on the Atlantic coast and on islands such as the Sable, Shackle ford, Assassinate and Cumberland Islands.
• ·         Mustangs usually live for 40 years. Hurt or disabled horses are protected by the herd.
• ·         Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOgH7mMEgg