He became what is termed reintroduced native wildlife.
If for some reason a plague wiped out the tiger in India and the species
was re-introduced from, say, wild animal park inventory that had originally
come from India would those tigers be considered native, indigenous?
Or feral? Absolutely the former.
Remains of the earliest animal anywhere in the world to bear recognizably
horse-like anatomy were found in the Idaho/Utah/Wyoming area dating 52
million years ago.
Three-and-a-half million years ago the now famous fossils found near
Hageman, Idaho represent the oldest remains of the fully evolved genus
Equus, roughly the size and weight of today's Arabian horse. At this time
the horse had not yet migrated across the Bering Strait Bridge.
Bones found in South America from horses that had migrated from North
America dated one million years ago appear indistinguishable from Equus
Caballus (the modern day domestic horse).
As mentioned earlier, the studies of DNA sequences taken from long bone
remains of the horses found preserved in the Alaskan permafrost deposits
dated 12,000 to 28,000 years ago differ by as little as 1.2% from modern
counterparts.
When the Spanish brought the horse to America they were bringing him
home. Back to his native land. Wearing the same genetics, the same DNA
sequencing he was wearing when he left and when those left behind were
wiped out.
Some wildlife groups consider the bighorn sheep and the American bison
"native" to North America. However, both species actually evolved in Asia
and came into North America via the Bering Strait Land Bridge. The horse,
equus caballus, conversely, evolved exclusively in North America and
crossed the Bering Strait bridge into Siberia, traveling in the other direction.
Equus caballus was fully evolved on 1t0h e North American continent and was
migrating west well before the cataclysm of 10,000 years ago.
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