. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. aids across ike Clockwise from top left: Stu V ^ a ,cii,n GPS tOlit 6rf lipaimail tit• utatfw-noia. (Irc-uA ojtgt&L' f<lm SkacklM BohAs. • 7/«Mu«fwfeJra mud / u/a/i//, i/ic/u/i/i^ Sitvtin/i ijrass "in mtuzies. • A a^ri^^rassik/uls, cadifiu/e- dross is cttounM snac/i, • Jiv? Az6 tf/r a mnufuu/Mi'O-riie, in c(uju> kahtdi. • 7/iis iimfiuf ms writ ui Afrit;researchers kofo the-stm/v willsked lul/d /uhc ihe luri{j/t/Vcfej a/a/ ikra'a ui. ike totifut Inirrur isuvul- co/ufitn'/u. • PtHiiei arc {dta
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. aids across ike Clockwise from top left: Stu V ^ a ,cii,n GPS tOlit 6rf lipaimail tit• utatfw-noia. (Irc-uA ojtgt&L' f<lm SkacklM BohAs. • 7/«Mu«fwfeJra mud / u/a/i//, i/ic/u/i/i^ Sitvtin/i ijrass "in mtuzies. • A a^ri^^rassik/uls, cadifiu/e- dross is cttounM snac/i, • Jiv? Az6 tf/r a mnufuu/Mi'O-riie, in c(uju> kahtdi. • 7/iis iimfiuf ms writ ui Afrit;researchers kofo the-stm/v willsked lul/d /uhc ihe luri{j/t/Vcfej a/a/ ikra'a ui. ike totifut Inirrur isuvul- co/ufitn'/u. • PtHiiei arc {dtai, nusiilkai' T^'^'i>'c/u/& ko-rscs/ (ni t/u^ drc- (iduiifli/ kx'rses iltsiiuul ifca{ — ttitttult/ mteisnrui^ less t/idn '/4- When asked what motivated him to help study the ponies, Steve Benbow, a Morehead City insurance agent, stumbles to explain his reasoning. He uses words like "heritage," "wildness" and "; But his sentiment is clear. These wild horses are interwoven in the culture and uniqueness of the Crystal Coast. To locals and visitors alike, the ponies are a living reminder of the area's strong maritime ties and rugged roots. No one is sure how wild horses came to live on Shackleford Banks, but many speculate it was some combination of early explorers, colonists, and overland trade and travel, says Stuska. One popular theory is that horses swam ashore from sinking ships in the 1400s and 1500s. Another is that horses were left behind when settlements like Diamond City, on the eastern end of Shackleford Banks, were abandoned in the late 1800s. Genetic samples from the Shackleford ponies reveal blood variants rarely seen in domestic horses, according to Gus Cothran, the director of the University of Kentucky's equine blood typing research laboratory. 'This leads us to believe that this herd of Banker Horses could be descended from a very old core group of Colonial Spanish horses," Stuska says
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