Re: Horses in South India

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:38 PM, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"

<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > k
> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Rick McCallister

<gabaroo6958@...>wrote:

> >
> >> Just for curiosity's sake. When did horses arrive in India? My
> >> understanding is that horses don't do very well in the tropics,
> >> especially in Africa and Asia due to tropical pathogens.
> >> What is the most current accepted timeline for the domestication
> >> of horses?
> >>
> >
>
>
> Elsewhere, some one else is arguing that horse has originated in
> Africa.
> Your point makes
> a good counter.
>
> Please write horses do not do well in the tropics (I am ignorant of
> this fact), meanwhile, I can
> forward the messages posted in favor of African origins of horse.

I thought you had argued elsewhere that the horse (Equus caballus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse
should be assigned to the genus Hippocampus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse
or have I misunderstood you?

Torsten

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