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by Wendy Williams


  Franzen, Jens

  Friedrich Schiller University

  Gaffney, Vince

  gaits; evolution of; height and; Muybridge photos of; running walk; types of

  Galicia; gorse in; Holocene riding in; Pleistocene; weather in; wolf hunts in; see also Garranos

  Garranos; ancestors of; breeding of; descendants of; predators of; riding of; roundup of; size of

  Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Weatherford)

  genomic flexibility

  geological change

  geological time scales; see also specific epochs

  geologists

  geometric signs

  Georgia

  Germany; horse hunting in; Pleistocene art in

  Gilpin, Sawrey

  Gingerich, Philip

  goats

  Gobi Desert

  Goodall, Jane

  Goodwin, Deborah

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  gorse

  Gough’s Cave

  Grande Coupure, La

  grasses; disappearance of; evolution of; as fuel of Mongolian Empire; Hipparion and; horses sensing of; human freedom and; in Pleistocene Europe; roots of; seasons of; visibility and

  Gray (horse)

  Grayson, Donald

  grazing, see diets; grasses; herding

  Great Basin, The (Grayson)

  Great Britain; Holocene hoofprints in; New Forest ponies in

  Great Northern European Plain

  Great Salt Lake

  Greece

  Greenfield, N.H.

  Grieg, Edvard

  Griffin, Donald, R.

  Grizzly Butte

  Grube Messel; fossil fuels from; preservation conditions at; primates at; time period of; as World Heritage site

  Guernica (Picasso)

  Guinea-Bissau

  Gulf of Aden

  Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms (Gilpin)

  Guthrie, R. Dale; on Pleistocene art

  Hagerman Horse Quarry

  “Hall of the Mountain King” (Grieg)

  harems; see also bands

  Harman, Alison

  Hautschatten

  Haynes, Gary

  hearing

  herding

  herds, bands vs.

  hibernation

  High Tail (horse)

  Hill, Andrew

  Hills, Len

  Himalayas

  Hipparion; adaptability of; diet of; gait of; hunting of; migrations of; replacement of; species of; toes of

  Hipparion Datum

  hippopotamuses

  Hoffecker, John

  Hofmann, Hans

  Holocene epoch; domestication during; forests spread during; horse populations during

  hominids; see also humans; specific species

  Homo erectus

  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo neanderthalensis

  Homo sapiens: climate change and; creativity of; horses eaten by; hunting style of; Ida’s relationship to; time line of; see also hominids; humans

  hoofs; of brumbies; evolution of; uses of

  horns

  Horse (Chamberlin)

  Horse, The (Pickeral)

  Horse, The Wheel, and Language, The (Anthony)

  horses, modern: ancestors of, see dawn horses, evolution, Hipparion; attention span of; basic needs of; cognition of, see intelligence; dearth of research on; defense mechanisms of; expressions of; flexibility of; illnesses of; impulse control of; life spans of; mobility of; near extinctions of; personalities of; personal space and; prevalence of; routines of; tracking of; weight of; vision of, see vision; wild, see wild horses; see also Equus; human/horse partnerships; specific body parts

  Horses (Simpson)

  Horváth, Gábor

  Hot Springs, S. Dak.

  Houpt, Katherine

  Hulbert, Richard

  human/horse partnerships; abandonment in; in art, see art; bonding in, see bonding: with humans; civilization and; collecting in; common evolutionary heritage in; communication in, see communication; companionship in; debt in; enhancement of; extinctions and; fascination in; feeding in; hunting in; literature about; milking in; progression of; protection in; reverence in; rewards in, see rewards; riding in, see riding; secrecy in; tourism and; trauma in; underestimation in; see also domestication; horses, modern; humans

  humans: agriculture and; art by, see art; brains of; evolution of creativity in; as exceptional; eyes of; Holocene settlements of; at La Brea; learning by; mobility of; as part of a living universe; Pleistocene diets of; Pleistocene dwellings of; response to climate change by; as species-lonely; weather preferences of; see also human/horse partnerships

  hunting; of horses

  Hustai Mountain; livestock near; as National Park; as sacred; Takhi in; tourism at

  Huxley, Thomas Henry

  Hyracotherium

  Iberia; see also Spain

  ice; absence of; caps of; melting of; sheets of; walking on

  Ice Age; see also Pleistocene

  Icelandic horses

  Ida (Darwinius)

  Idaho

  Illinois

  Immense Journey, The (Eiseley)

  India

  indigenous peoples

  intelligence; curiosity as; definitions of; generational transfer and; learning as; memory as; numerical ability and; problem solving and; sense perception and; of zoo animals; see also communication

  interdependence

  International Takhi-Group (ITG)

  International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

  Inuit

  iridium layer

  Irish hunters

  Italy

  ITG (International Takhi-Group)

  IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)

  Jacobs, Gerald

  Janis, Christine

  Jankunis, Emilyne

  jumping

  Jurado Piqueras, Sebastián

  Kandel, Eric

  Kapova Cave

  Kazakhstan

  Keiper, Ronald

  Kelley, Nettie

  Khan, Genghis

  Kirk, Christopher

  Kokal, Kris

  Kokal, Stephanie

  Kooyman, Brian

  Kostenki, Russia

  Krüger, Konstanze

  La Brea tar pits

  Laetoli

  Lagerstätten

  Lagos, Laura passim

  land bridge, debunking of

  Landseer, Edwin

  Lascaux

  Last Chance Creek

  Last Glacial Maximum

  Laurentide ice sheet

  Lawrence, D. H.

  leaf waxes

  Leakey, Mary

  learning, see intelligence

  Leblanc, Michel-Antoine

  legs, evolution of; see also feet

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Les Roches

  Lewis, Jennifer

  lions; at Chauvet

  Lipizzan horses 43

  lips

  Little Book Cliffs

  livestock, herding of

  locomotion, see gaits

  London, Jack

  Lorenz, Konrad

  Los Angeles

  Ludwig, Rudolph

  Lukas (horse)

  Lyell, Charles

  Madrid

  Magdalenian

  males, see stallions

  mammals: Age of; digestive systems of; extinction of; poisons for; riding of; social behavior of; teeth of; vision of; see also specific animals

  mammoths; extinction of

  Mammoth Site

  manes

  Marc, Franz

  mares: bonding between; evolution of; milking of; pregnancies of; sexism toward; stallions chosen by; stallions ignored by; stallions resisted by

  Mares and Foals (Stubbs)

  Marsh, O. C.

  Martin, Paul

  Maryland

  math

  mating, see breeding; mares

  McComb, Ka
ren

  McCulloch Peaks

  McGuane, Thomas

  McLoughlin, Philip

  McPhee, John

  McVay, Scott

  Mediterranean islands

  Megahippus

  memory

  Merrimack, N.H.

  Merychippus

  Mesohippus

  microbiota

  microfinance

  Middle Ages

  Middle East

  Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

  migrations: of Asian animals; Beringia and; of dawn horses; facilitated by humans; of Hipparion; home range vs.

  Mihlbachler, Matthew; on teeth

  Mind of the Horse, The (Leblanc)

  Miocene epoch; climate change during; Equus during; grasses during; Hipparion during; hominids during; Pliohippus during

  Miohippus

  Miracle of the White Stallions (Disney)

  Mississippi

  Missouri

  Mongolia; early Holocene horses in; economy of; history of; as Horse Country; horse racing in; independence of; land use in; livestock in; riding techniques in; Takhi as emblem of; see also Takhi horses

  Montana; see also American West

  Monte Castillo

  Morgan, Kathleen

  Morgans

  mountains: absence of; formation of; global drying and

  Murdock, Karen

  Musée National de Préhistoire

  museums, development of; see also American Museum of Natural History; Peabody Museum; Senckenberg Museum

  mustaches

  mustangs; see also American West; wild horses

  Muybridge, Eadweard

  My Dancing White Horses (Podhajsky)

  Nadia

  Namibian desert

  Namkhai, Bandi

  National Park Service, U.S.

  natural history, collecting of

  Neanderthals

  Nebraska

  Netherlands

  Nevada

  New Forest National Park

  New Hampshire

  New York City; see also American Museum of Natural History

  Norris, Chris

  North America: extinction of horses in; Miocene; Oligocene; Pleistocene; see also American West

  North Carolina

  North Sea

  Novacek, Michael

  oak trees

  observation, as essence of understanding

  ocean currents

  octopuses

  Ohio

  oil

  Oligocene epoch

  Olynyk, Lee

  onagers

  Operation Cowboy

  Oregon

  Oreo (horse)

  Origin of Species, The (Darwin)

  Orohippus

  Orpheus myth

  Owen, Richard

  Ozarks

  Packer, Craig

  Pagnac, Darrin

  Paisley Caves

  paleoanthropology

  Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

  paleoneurology

  paleontology: in Africa; in American West; debates within; in Germany; global perspective in; horses’ centrality to; in Mississippi; as tedious; techniques of; teeth’s centrality to; see also Eocene; Miocene; Oligocene; Pleistocene

  Pangaea

  pasterns

  patellae

  Patton, George S.

  Payne, Roger

  Peabody Museum

  Percherons

  perissodactyls

  PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum)

  petroglyphs

  pets; see also human/horse partnerships

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pickeral, Tamsin

  pigeons

  pigs

  pit ponies

  plants: defense mechanisms of; degradation of; evolution of; geology and; Holocene; Pleistocene; as poisonous; preservation of; see also grasses

  Playing with Lukas (Murdock)

  Pleistocene epoch; art from; end of; in Europe; extinctions during; human population during; life during; in North America; time span of; Yukon horse during

  Pliocene epoch

  Pliohippus; feet variation in

  Podhajsky, Alois

  Polecat Bench

  pollen studies

  ponies

  Pony Express

  Ponzo illusions

  Portugal

  Pottok horses

  Prairie (Savage)

  prairies

  Preator, Phyllis

  predators; absence of; avoidance of; grasses and

  prehistory; see also Holocene; Pleistocene

  Price, T. Douglas

  primates: culture of; evolution of vision in; numerical ability of; riding by; status among; see also euprimates; hominids; humans

  Prince Eugene of Savoy

  progress, see under evolution

  Proops, Leanne

  Prothero, Donald

  Pryor Mountains

  Przewalski’s horse, see Takhi horses

  psychologists

  Puente Viesgo

  punishment, see rewards

  Pyrenees; cave art in; formation of; as refuge

  quarter horses

  Quaternary Extinction Event

  Question of Animal Awareness, The (Griffin)

  Rachel Carson Reserve

  racing; Mongolian; see also speed

  Radinsky, Leonard

  Radnetter, Herwig

  Ramachandran, Vilayanur

  Ransom, Jason; on anthropogenic niche; on bands; on birth; on communication; on feeding patterns; on judgment; on knowledge of environment; observing with; on sex roles; in Spain

  rapa das bestas

  Raphael

  Raynolds, Robert

  Red Pony, The (Steinbeck)

  Reed, Charles Hancock

  rehabilitation

  Reina Sofía

  reindeer; in cave art; domestication of; eating of; migration of

  Renders, Elise

  Repenomamus

  reproduction, see breeding; mares: pregnancies of

  reserves; see also rewilding

  Retallack, Gregory

  rewards; in experiments; neural circuitry for; as overly simplistic

  rewilding; best practices for; celebration of; difficulty of; funding for; as labor of love; lack of land for; locals and; as moral obligation; success of; tourism and

  rhinoceroses; woolly

  riding: domestication vs.; horses rejection of; as instinctive; invention of; as merging; positions for; of Pottoks; skeletal structure and; of wild horses

  Roberts, Gordon

  rock etchings; see also cave art

  rock shelters, see cave dwellings

  Rocky Mountains; development of; see also American West

  Romania

  Rose, Ken

  Rouffignac

  roundups

  Rousseau, Henri

  royalty, horses kept by

  running, see racing; speed

  running walk

  Russia: horse hunting in; Pleistocene art in; see also Soviet Union

  saber-toothed cats

  Sable Island

  Saint George and the Dragon (Raphael)

  Salt Lake Oil Field

  Sam (horse)

  Sankey, Carol

  Savage, Candace

  savanna

  scavenging

  Schaal, Stephan

  Schöningen

  Science

  science, accessibility of

  Scott, Eric

  sea-island horses

  sea levels: lowering of; rising of

  seals

  seashells

  seasonality, onset of

  Senckenberg Museum

  senses; see also smell; vision

  Serengeti

  Sergeac, France

  sexism

  sex roles

  Shakespeare

  Shapiro, Beth

  sheep; herding of; Mongolian

  Shire horses

  S
iberia

  silica

  Simpson, George Gaylord

  single-foot gait

  Sinohippus

  Sitting Bull (horse)

  size, extinction and

  skeletons

  skulls

  smell, sense of

  Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

  social behavior; long-term tracking of; prehistoric; vision and; see also bands; bonding; emotions

  social learning

  Solutré, France

  Some Horses (McGuane)

  Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)

  Sorraia horses

  South Africa

  South Dakota

  Soviet Union; see also Russia

  Spain: American horses from; coastline of; Garranos in; modern art from; Neanderthals in; Pleistocene art in; Pleistocene peoples in

  Spanish Riding School

  speed, as defense mechanism; vision and

  spines, evolution of

  stallions: competition between; cooperation between; evolution of; foals killed by; life spans of; myth of dominance by; risks taken by; as satellites

  stalls, mental health and

  stampeding, scattering vs.

  startle responses; vision and

  Steinbeck, John

  stem animals

  steppes, see Kazakhstan; Mongolia

  stifles

  stomachs

  Stone, Sherril

  stratigraphy

  Straus, Lawrence

  Streever, Bill

  stress

  Stubbs, George

  sugar fixes

  super-brains

  Swaziland

  symbolism

  tails

  Takhi horses; breeding of; description of; Dutch and; evolution of; feeding of; freedom resisted by; as genetic anomaly; interbreeding by; mortality rates of; near extinction of; relative wildness of; on reserves; reverence for

  tallgrass prairies

  Tanzania

  tapirs

  tarpans

  Tattersall, Ian

  tectonics, see geological change

  Tecumseh (horse)

  Tedford, Richard

  teeth: communication via; emergence of; evolution of; eye placement and; human maintenance of; myths about; paleontologists’ reliance on; of primates; of Takhi

  Tennessee Walking Horse

  territory

  Thoroughbreds; eyes of

  thumbs

  Timney, Brian

  toes, see feet; hoofs

  Toews, Ron

  tools: animals’ use of; hominids’ use of; Pleistocene peoples’ use of

  tracks

  trust, see bonding

  Tserendeleg, Jachin

  Turner, John

  UB Post

  Uffington White Horse

  Uinta Formation

  Ukraine

  Ulaanbaatar

  Uller, Claudia

  ungulates

  United States: legal protection of wild horses in; Takhis reception in; see also American West; specific states

  University of Southern California

  University of Tübingen

  Uno, Kevin

  Ural Mountains

  vegetarianism

  Velázquez, Diego

  Vermont

  Vertebrate Eye, The (Walls)

  Vézère river

 

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