I recently watched a documentary about a brief history of each continent when I noticed horses were really common everywhere for an example Genghis khan in Asia, Saladin in Africa, natives in North and South America and all over Europe too. I know they’ve been brought with settlers to Australia because it was mentioned in the documentary but what about the other continents ?
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Horses, as best we can tell, we’re domesticated in what is now Mongolia/Kazakhstan. As the Mongols, especially under Ghengis Khan, expanded their empire, conquered peoples said damn, these horse things sure are effective, we gotta get us some of those!
And so they did, they kept them, selectively bred them, and took them everywhere they also went to conquer, across land and sea (yes, they were loaded on boats). And animals being animals, they do have a tendency to wander off, get loose, or get left behind. So your Australia example is it in a nut shell, writ large.
Interesting side note- horses were native to North America, but started migrating to Asia around the same time humans started migrating to North America. And they so they met, starry-eyed lovers across a crowded Bering Straight…
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