It's wild how Przewalsky horses are pretty much *the* first instance of feral horses, no true wild horses exist anymore. Basically horses have been surviving without humans in the wild for pretty much as long as humans have tamed horses, so they've got to be profoundly robust in ways nobody really credits.
@Leucrotta you know how one of the common theories around Hamlet is that he's pretending to have gone mad with grief so he can catch his enemies off guard?
perhaps so too do horses plot
@chimerror It's just I wind up hearing about how horses are nervous, how they really aren't evolutionarily designed to be particularly good herbivores, and various ailments that can take them out a lot. But sustainable feral populations exist in a batch of really *arid* environments, they're not really equivalent to say giant pandas. I think there's an observer bias.
@Leucrotta I believe the Internet term for this is "hiding your power level"