SHE'S A POWERFUL FORCE -- NATURAL DISASTERS

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This is reassuring news for animal lovers.



For many, they are a North Carolina icon - and with Category 4 Hurricane Florence barreling in, many animal-lovers are worried for the fate of the Outer Banks wild horses.

But they are being reassured that the ponies know how to ride out the storm.  

Sue Stuska, a wildlife biologist based at Cape Lookout National Seashore, where 118 wild horses live on Shackleford Banks, said the horses are highly sensitive to weather changes and instinctively know what to do in a storm.

She said they go to higher ground during flooding, including the dunes, and head for shrub thickets and a maritime forest during high winds.  

'Naturally, they are meant to be outside and they have high ground and they have thick places to hide,' Stuska said.  'Don't worry about them. They've survived for hundreds of years, and we expect that they'll be just fine.'  I hope she's right.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...icane.html