It’s hard not to be impressed by the natural, semi-wild lives these animals live in a beautiful countryside. Idyllic when the sun is shining in early June – as in the following sequence – but no doubt a different matter during the cold, wet winters. Nevertheless, they are perfectly suited to this climate, having lived here for thousands of years. They are a living legacy.
via Galician ponies: an ancient breed adapted to life on the hills.
Ray Cannon's nature notes 
[…] Galicia, SpainTh Galicia, in NW Spain, there are many horses and cows on the hillsides, and the Galician ponies wander among the pine forests and heather moorlands, where this dung beetle seems to be, thank […]
[…] The creatures responsible for depositing this lovely dung across the hills of Galicia, are of course Galician ponies! […]