Wild horses in the US are being shot with contraceptive darts

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Horses in New Mexico had been shot with darts containing a protracted-acting contraceptive

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Taking pictures wild horses with contraceptive darts may per chance also relieve curb their numbers in components of the US the put their populations are ballooning out of sustain watch over.

Horses had been reintroduced to the US by the Spanish within the 16th century, after native North American horses went extinct about 10,000 years within the past. Lacking natural predators, they rep since spread at some stage within the rangelands within the western US.

Extra than 70,000 wild horses now decide public rangelands, about 45,000 greater than the limit discipline by the US …

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