What are the natural predators of wild horses?

Where wild horses are truly indigenous (i.e. Asia and Europe) they were hunted by all available apex predators. Wolves, big cats (lions, tigers, leopards), and bears, etc, as well as cave men. In the USA, what we have are feral horses, they are non-native and not truly “wild” in that sense. read more

Not only were wild North American horses hunted by the largest mammalian predators that still exist - wolves, mountain lions, bears - their indigenous ancestors were hunted by other large predators that went extinct during the same megafauna extinction event that took the horse along with the majority of large mammals: mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, camels, giant beavers, etc., etc. read more

In Oceania, predators typically include dingoes and sometimes humans. In Africa, there is no known knowledge of horses ever being killed by any predators due to lack of reports. Predators of wild horses include large felines such as lions, leopards and cheetahs, as well as other predators such as spotted hyenas, painted dogs, humans, and possibly wolves. read more

Predators of the horse include humans, mountain lions, wolves, coyotes and even bears. read more