I would like to commend Judy Gilmour on her interesting article “The place to be: NamibiaIt was a visit to an eternal landscape of lonely wilderness, and worth every kilometre, writes Judy Gilmour".At the risk of splitting hairs, it is worth pointing out that the “wild” horses of Garub are in fact feral. These horses were once domesticated as opposed to being truly wild.In 1915 the German colonial “airforce” bombed Louis Botha’s horse enclosure in Garub, on the fringe of the Namib desert.This resulted in nearly all of the 1,700 horses breaking free from the enclosure and escaping into the surrounding desert.Recent genotyping has verified that the bloodline of the Garub horses is principally that of Arabian horses, many of which were used as military horses during Botha’s World War 1 campaign.Also, Gilmour says there was a “floodlit watering hole that attracted a range of buck and some thirsty rhino”. The term “buck” usually relates to the smaller species of antelope, such as springb...
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