Comments on: Darwin and The Gauchos https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Reid https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530733 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:29:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530733 Charles Darwin observes: â??The Gauchos are well known to be perfect riders. The idea of being thrown, let the horse do what it likes; never enters their head. Their criterion of a good rider is, a man who can manage an untamed colt, or who, if his horse falls, alights on his own feet, or can perform other such exploits… I recollect seeing a Gaucho riding a very stubborn horse, which three times successively reared so high as to fall backwards with great violence. The man judged with uncommon coolness the proper moment for slipping off, not an instant before or after the right time; and as soon as the horse got up, the man jumped on his back, and at last they started at a gallop. The Gaucho never appears to exert any muscular force. â??

]]> By: Ruth https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530732 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:30:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530732 I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Ruth

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]]> By: SimonG https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530731 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:08:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/09/darwin-and-the-gauchos/#comment-530731 The Beagle Diary is being read on BBC Radio 7. Part 1 is on the website now, for those who can access it. (I suspect it’s only available in the UK.)

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