Facts About Brumbies Horses

Australian wild horse
The word brumby derives from “baroomby”; as the language spoken by the Aborigines in Queensland means “wild”. These horses live independently, roam and reproduce for years, the wide expanses of this country. Naturally, in Australia there is no horse. Now they are piled up tens of thousands. They spread to the tropical north and also in the mountains south.

Waler horse
Brumby wild horses are descended from breeds Waler, grown at a time when Australia was a British colony to serve in the British cavalry in India, but also used by the Australian Army during World War II.

Hardy horse
Brumbies combined a variety of breeds; particularly the Thoroughbred, Arab, the Cape horse (from the Cape of Good Hope), Timor Pony and perhaps a little Clydesdale or Percheron. It is a hardy horse with great endurance.

Pest in Australia
Brumby is considered a pest in Australia. Horses are introduced species that tries to overcome the Australian native animals and plants in national parks and nature and their number is out of control. Nowhere in the world now has so many wild horses as in Australia.

300,000 wild horses
It is estimated that today the Australian continent wandering around 300,000-350,000 wild horses (almost 8 times more than mustangs in Nort America). While so they wander in the wilderness, its heavy hooves trampling the soft ground and destroying the edges of the troughs. When drought occurs, horses die of hunger or thirst.

Mass kills
In the actions of thinning each year kills thousands of these animals. One part of their meat is processed into food for humans, and from another part it is made a pet food.

Good eyesight
Brumby horses have pretty good eyesight, thanks to its very distinctive eyes. A diameter of about 5 centimeters, their eyes are bigger than in other mammals on land. Their eyes have 9 times the volume of the human eye. They have three eyelids – 2 single and the third located in the inner corner of the eye that occasionally cleans and lubricates the eye if the need arises.