The wild horses of North Carolina will not be evacuated; they know an old trick to survive hurricanes

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Wild horses walk along the beach at the External Banks of North Carolina.

(CNN) - A group of majestic horses that spend their days in the External Banks (Outer Banks), a chain of islands in North Carolina, will not be evacuated.

With Hurricane Dorian quickly approaching, Spanish Mustangs will gather and get ahead with a trick that horses have used for centuries.

They will go to higher ground and gather under sturdy oaks to protect themselves from the hurricane, said the Corolla Fund for Wild Horses, which manages the herd and sends a similar reminder during hurricanes due to the great concern for horses on social media. . "It is likely that they will overcome the winds and rain as their ancestors did before them, huddled, against the wind," he added.

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And unlike the humans who live in the External Banks, wild horses are better equipped to face a hurricane. They are already feeling a change in air pressure and are grouping together.

"Remember, they have been doing this for 500 years!" Said the fund.

The food, water and other supplies of the horses have been stored on the farm where they live.

They have hay and extra grain, and their feeders are full of water. They also have braided identification tags on their mane and the herd manager will spend the storm on the farm with them, the fund said.

It is predicted that the eye of Hurricane Dorian will approach the coast of South Carolina on Thursday morning. Downtown Charleston was already suffering floods on Thursday as a result of the hurricane, which is expected to run parallel along the Carolinas coast until Friday.

More than a million people in parts of South Carolina and North Carolina are under mandatory evacuation orders, meteorologists said.

Despite the dangers of the hurricane, the approximately 100 wild horses in the area are ingenious and have an incredibly strong will to live, said the herd manager, Meg Puckett, during the passage of Hurricane Florence last year.

Hurricane Dorian