Ponies and mini horses: 10 adorable photos to brighten your day
Miniature horses are not ponies
Who doesn t love a mini horse or pony, with their adorable horse features and tiny bodies? Even the TV series Parks and Recreation had plotlines revolving around one of these cute creatures, named Li l Sebastian.
It s important to distinguish between miniature horses and ponies, though. Mini horses are exactly how they sound: just miniature versions of horses. Ponies, however, are something else, with physical characteristics that differ from horses. Advertisement
They re tiny versions of horses
As you can see in the images above, mini horses retain horse-like features, just on a smaller scale. In fact, most mini horses are about the same size as a large dog. Ponies, on the other hand, can be slightly larger.
Customers take flight with unique RTR Ford Mustangs 04 March 2021 - 05:02 Phuti Mpyane Modified RTR Ford Mustangs have striking paint schemes that are linked to SA’s World War 2 pilots and their iconic Spitfire fighter planes.
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In 2019 we wrote about the Ford Performance Centre collaborating with the SA Air Force (SAAF) museum to convert 10 5.0
l wide-body RTR-spec Ford Mustangs each themed on Spitfire planes that were used by SA pilots during World War 2, of which the museum’s only example, Spitfire #5518, crashed at the Zwartkops airbase in 2000.
For every “Spitfire” Mustang sold, the Ford Performance Centre makes a donation of R75,000 towards the restoration of the stricken Spitfire. During a handover event at the Zwartkops airbase on February 12, new owners collected their limited-edition Mustangs, thus contributing to the overall restoration programme.
Tsunami threat to Northland from Kermadec earthquake
4 Mar, 2021 10:30 PM
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TSUNAMI WARNING LATEST (1.25pm) GNS Science has downgraded tsunami warnings for New Zealand, advising the largest waves have now passed. A National Emergency Management Agency release says the threat level s now downgraded to a beach and marine threat for all areas that were previously under land and marine threat. It says all people who were evacuated can now return. The advice remains for all areas under beach and marine threat, to stay off beach and shore areas. Doubtless Bay residents in the Far North reporting seeing a surge of water come into the harbour. The surge came!, one resident posted on social media. Over the past hour a strong surge has been flowing into Mangonui Harbour. No tsunami wave as such but more like a strong flowing river stirring up the mud and sand in the harbour.