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5 A typical depression area where the grass retains some greenness during the dry season. These areas are often frequented by brumbies in search of some green pick to add to their varied diet of spear grass, cane grass, kangaroo grass etc.

5 Brumbies do much more than eat grass and do manures throughout the day. They can be seen cantering 5 around when frisky, foals will play, bachelor stallions will move about looking and hoping to 'capture' their own mares, lead mares will lead the mob from pasture to pasture and to water, colts which have been cast out of a mob by the stallion will form their own mobs, and so on.
If you are prepared to put in the time watching these most intelligent, social, tough, interesting and beautiful animals, you will be well rewarded by viewing their most interesting social structures and ways of life - much more so than reading about them in a book.

5 All horses have an acute sense of smell, however the brumby's sense of smell is most acute. You can sneak up on brumbies without being seen, but a change in wind direction will soon reveal your presence.
Franz Weber's Brumby Sanctuary

3 A typical manure pile produced by stallions.

Many of the trees at the sanctuary are Salmon Gum, Iron Wood, River Red Gum and Swampy Blood Wood.
Many of the birds include Gelhaars, Black Cockatoos, White Cockatoos, Northern Rosellas, Jabiru, Babblers, and Kingfishers etc.