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The article deals effectively with ferals in North America, but could benefit from additions on the phenomenon in other places, e.g. the difference on the Australian continent, where there are feral cattle, deer and camels as well as horses, goats etc.

Is one reason for this difference the sparser human population? The harsher landscape?

Quill 22:42, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Feral crop / feral plant article[edit]

I'm already working on this, FYI. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 , 20:13, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I was. I ended up losing the initial C-class piece in a system crash, shortly after posting that. :-( I don't have any of the materials at hand again, years later, to recreate it all. It's an open-slate topic. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:15, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Genetic diversity[edit]

Some unsourced material recently removed [1] is actually mostly or entirely sourceable quite easily. However, it doesn't really pertain just to feral populations, strictly speaking, but to any free-breeding group of domesticated animals or plant, especially landraces. There are entire preservation programmes centered on landraces (especially of cereal and fruit crops, and livestock animals), and some more limited ones for feral populations of animals, like mustang horses. I think Landrace#Biodiversity and conservation is the better place to centralize this information, with just a brief WP:SUMMARY-style pointer from Feral. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:08, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorraia[edit]

Hello @DFoidl: Regarding[2]. The Sorraia article does have the category Category:Feral horses. One of these should be corrected but I don't know which. Invasive Spices (talk) 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello, the category should be corrected. The Sorraia was created in 1920 by agriculturist Ruy d'Andrade who collected a number of rural horses from farms in the Sorraia region, and since then the breed has been kept either in fully domestic use or semi-feral, but never was a feral horse and there are also no feral populations of that breed. DFoidl (talk) 18:52, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]