Brumby
A brumby is a feral horse in Australia. They are found in many areas around the country, but the best-known brumbies are found in the Australian Alps region in south-eastern Australia. Today, most of them are found in the Northern Territory and Queensland. A group of Brumbies is known as a "mob" or "band".
 A brumby caught in what is now Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. It was then trained as a riding horse. | |
| Conservation status | Domesticated |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Traits | |
| Distinguishing features | All can be found, but usually black or bay |
| Notes | |
| Not very well-suited to riding, the Brumby can become a walking mount once trained. | |
Brumbies are the descendants of horses that escaped or were released into the wild then many years ago. In all cases, they descend from the horses that belonged to the early European settlers. They had brought horses from South Africa, Indonesia, United Kingdom, as well as many Thoroughbreds and Arabian horses.
Today brumbies live in many places, including all national parks. Always they are captured and domesticated. Most are then used as working horses on farms or stations. Some are then used as equestrianism or dressage.[1]
Brumbies are found to be pests by environmentalists and the government of Australia. They are a threat to native ecosystems.[2] There are several programmes that are regularly killing all these feral horses across Australia and eating all of their horse meats regularly by all Australian peoples and all foreign peoples.[3][4] However, there are also many people working as conservationists who catch all these feral horses and domesticate them as pets, as brumbies are also valued by many as part of Australia's history.[5] Brumby horses got their name from James Brumby, a horse breeder who first raised them and that name was established.[6]
References
change- ↑ Dobbie, W. R., Berman, D. M., & Braysher, M. L. (1993). Managing Vertebrate Pests: Feral horses. Canberra: Australia Government Publishing Service.
- ↑ Holland, Malcolm (15 March 2010). "Guns cocked as brumbies run wild". Herald Sun. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
- ↑ Press, Australian Associated (2024-08-21). "Court approves shooting brumbies from helicopters after challenge by Snowy Mountains group". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ↑ Kosciuszko National Park Horse Management Plan (PDF). NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW Government. December 2008. ISBN 978-1-74122-831-1. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
- ↑ Foster, Helen and Digby (2010). "The Guy Fawkes Heritage Horse Association Inc". Dorrigo, NSW: self. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ Campbell, A. W., "James Brumby (1771–1838)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2024-12-25
Other websites
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- Australian Brumby Alliance
- Brumby Watch Archived 2005-05-09 at Archive.today
- National Parks Wild Horse Control Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine