The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadores from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512.[1]
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The Texas Longhorns are featured in Roads to Nowhere.
The Texas Longhorns behind the barbed wires.
It was introduced in 1 week after people when 100,000 longhorn living throughout the state of Texas on open ranches or hemmed in barns face a crisis where they rely on weekly hay rations. Without people to give them food and barbed wire fencing & keeping them in, it looks to be the end of the road for the creatures, but they aren't feeling anxious. Larry Smith stated that the longhorns is big enough to knock down anything, it is well trained and docile where it doesn't any need, and already given everything it needs to survive and content with it. Longhorns descend from the Spanish cattle, a tough breed brought to the New World aboard Columbus ships and it's in their blood to eat whatever is available. Larry Smith stated that while all the cattle are herbivores, the Longhorn cattle will also eat brush, browse, leaves, and anything they need to survive. They also have a pair of horns with Larry Smith explaining that the horns used to protect themselves against the hounds, wolves, and bears and there's not many animals that will go up and tangle with a set of horns.
The Texas Longhorns escaped into the wilds.
Although individual Longhorns managed to survive the first few days after people, their survival as a species is still in doubt.
In 250 years after people, it is revealed that the Longhorns are finding that history is repeating itself like in the 1800s where they escaped from the confines of their Spanish missionary masters. Larry Smith stated that the animals evolved into an animal that could survive on its own with very long leg and very strong hooves in order to travel long distances for water and forage. Longhorns acquired a genetic diversity that serves them well after people. Larry Smith stated that they don't need veterinarians for the Texas Longhorns due to it being extremely disease resistant and it makes a Longhorn adaptable without humans. While many dairy and beef cattle died out quickly without people because of struggle to give birth without human assistance, Longhorns don't have the problem. Larry Smith explains that the calves would hit the ground and start running immediately. He continues that the Texas Longhorn can survive without people because they've already proven it. After 2 centuries, the number of the Texas Longhorns rose in tens of millions, just as they did in the 1800s.