The "gauchos" dedicated to the hunting of the South American Ostrich by means of the lasso with balls (Boleadoras) . The hunting is done is spring and the beginning of summer.
     During the hunting of the ostrich the Gauchos showed their skills and bravery.
They would ride their horses at full speed behind the fast birds and throw at them the lasso with balls,so it would certainly get entangled in their legs and the prey would roll on the ground.... 
     Cattle and horses that had escaped from early Spanish settlements in the 16th century had, over the centuries, proliferated into enormous free-roaming herds, and it was this wild, unclaimed abundance that was the basis for the development of the gaucho subculture. The horses were caught and tamed, and then used to capture the cattle....

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