Mustangs are free-ranging horses. They're not really wild; these horses reverted to a wild state after domestication and subsequent escape or abandonment – therefore they're really feral horses.
Over the years, especially during national economic downturns, mustangs have been viewed as invasive species, reproducing in an effort to drive ranchers from public lands.
The Mustang history in the Americas is believed to begin with the arrival of the first Europeans. In the 1500s, Spanish explorers introduced domestic horses and burros to North America. Over time some horses and burros escaped or were released, creating a population of feral animals.
Technically, a mustang is a feral house – an escape from domestication – rather than a wild animal. The mustang lives in wild, by his wits and instincts but somewhere deep inside every mustang is a memory of more than two thousand year symbiosis with mankind in the Iberian Peninsula.
Wild mustang
