Jean-Mic a écrit :
Quelle est l'origine des ponys des indiens ?
J'ai retenu qu'il s'agissait de chevaux importés par les immigrants européens et revenus à l'état sauvage. Mais quelles étaient les races de chevaux en question ? Croyant qu'ils étaient arrivés avec les espagnols, je me serai attendu à des races de haute taille.
Et il l'étaient, "pony" n'étant ici qu'un terme anglo-nord-amérindien pour désigner les chevaux (mustangs descendants des chevaux espagnols apportés aux Amériques) et non les poneys.
Citer :
Conversely, the term "pony" is occasionally used to describe horses of normal height. Horses used for polo are often called "polo ponies", though in the United States and the United Kingdom, they are often of Thoroughbred breeding and often well over 14.2 hands. American Indian tribes also have the tradition of referring to their horses as "ponies," when speaking in English, even though many of the Mustang horses they used in the 19th century were close to or over 14.2 hh, and most horses owned and bred by Native peoples today are of full horse height. The term "pony" is also sometimes used to describe a full-sized horse in a humorous or affectionate sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony#Horses_and_ponies