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  2. Free-roaming horse management in North America - Wikipedia

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    In Alberta, some roundups were done as far back as the 1950s, and a horse permit system was in effect from 1962 to 1972 when about 2000 horses were removed over the span of the ten years. [23] In 1994, the entire herd of over 1,200 horses, which at the time was the largest population of free-roaming horses in Canada, was removed from the ...

  3. Qatari folklore - Wikipedia

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    When he prepares his weapon and sharpens his sword, leave the camels and mount the horses". The motif of treachery is often interwoven with themes of racism and jealousy, for instance, in Al Furousiya, where two brothers conspire against their third brother, Ibn al-Abdah, who travels to India to rescue them. Despite his noble intentions, they ...

  4. Mounted search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    A search and rescue horse is a horse trained and used to perform mounted search and rescue. In many cases, the horse is simply a means of transportation for a SAR responder. In other cases, the horse is a full member of the SAR field team. Like a SAR dog, a SAR horse can be trained to search for lost persons, using its keen senses of hearing ...

  5. Neutering - Wikipedia

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    Neutering, from the Latin neuter ('of neither sex'), [1] is the removal of a non-human animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part.The male-specific term is castration, while spaying is usually reserved for female animals.

  6. Post riders - Wikipedia

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    Post riders or postriders describes a horse and rider postal delivery system that existed at various times and various places throughout history. The term is usually reserved for instances where a network of regularly scheduled service was provided under some degree of central management by the State or State licensed monopoly.

  7. Equestrianism - Wikipedia

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    Musicians riding horses, Tang dynasty Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes, such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch.They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this ...

  8. Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    The ridge and valley system presents an important obstacle to east–west land travel even with today's technology. It was a nearly insurmountable barrier to European-American migrants who walked or rode horses traveling west to settle the Ohio Country , and later the Northwest Territory and Oregon Country .

  9. The phrase "survival of the fittest" refers to biological fitness, not physical fitness. Biological fitness is the quantitative measure of individual reproductive success, e.g. the tendency of lineages containing individuals that produce more offspring in a particular environment to persist and thrive in that environment.