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Wild stallions fighting
Bosnia-Herzegovina has many herds of wild horses. These are domestic breeds that were released into the wild generations ago.
Recently I travelled to one of these locations to photograph them. The mountain highlands have several hundred of these horses and they congregate in smaller groups of a few tens. Each stallion has his own smaller group and when they get too close to each other there are often clashes. Most of the stallions wear marks of these fights.. Scratches, bite marks, open wounds... Life is not easy for an alpha male!
The horses here are friendly and inquisitive, but one has to pay attention to the stallions at all times - not that they would be aggressive to people but because of the fights among each other...
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of "Equus ferus". It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC.
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