In 1760, a Boston merchant left horses on a treeless island in the Atlantic: More than 250 years later, around 500 wild descendants still survive without human care

Around 1760, Boston merchant and shipowner Thomas Hancock sent horses to Sable Island, a remote crescent-shaped sand island in the North Atlantic. The animals were part of a larger group of livestock placed there during the 18th century, when merchants saw isolated islands as places where animals could reproduce without requiring constant care.

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