Wild Horses on the Salt Marsh
by Fon Denton
Title
Wild Horses on the Salt Marsh
Artist
Fon Denton
Medium
Photograph - Photograph Prints
Description
These horses, feeding on marsh grass, are actually feral, since they are decendants of Colonial Spanish Mustangs, mixed with domestic horses brought to the island in the 1940s, by a local resident who owned the island for a while. The area, now known as the Rachel Carson Reserve, is a complex of islands and estuaries, dedicated as a Nature Preserve, off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina. It can only be reached by boat! The horses, live and survive the sometimes harsh coastal conditions, entirely on their own. They are wild! The horses with the strongest Spanish Mustang heritage, can often be identified by the presence of a dorsal stripe, like the one seen here. Other factors include the low set tail and sloping croup. They appear smaller and more compact than domestic horses, because they have 5 lumbar vertebrae as opposed to 6. Though smaller, they are still considered horses!
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July 12th, 2020
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