The horse is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess an excellent sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response.[1]
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Horses were featured in Heavy Metal starting in 2 days after people when horses used by the NYPD and pull Central Park carriages are fending for themselves and have to adapt without people.
In 3 years after people, the horses have fled New York City and are finding space to live. Frank Lowenstein stated that horse usually lives in the plains and have an escape mechanism from predators and a good fighter. He continues that horses need grass and open space to run and suggest that the gold courses and suburban yards around New York are some best places he thinks. However, the yards and gold courses will turn into forests, which doesn't provide a grassy environments for the horses need. The horses need to find a suitable habitat in a hurry but surprisingly the best bet is at the beach of Barrier Islands at the Atlantic Coast, which has an ability to sustain herds of wild horses. An example is at the Assateague Island, which make the horses home just the coast of Virginia and Maryland in the time of humans. Frank Lowenstein stated a question if the horses going to find the places in time.
At the shoreline of once New York, packs of wild horses, descendants of the urban equines that thousands of years ago that protected and entertained the humans of New York City, still thrives. However, the high salt content in the seaside food supply means that the horses needed to drink twice as much water as their ancestors once did along with the deficient in nutrients of grasses causing the horses to evolved into a shorter statue in response to the poor quality of their diet. The horses manage to survive.
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