przewalski's horse

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A rare, endangered horse, Equus ferus przewalskii, native to the steppes of Central Asia

Last wild equine subspecies (Equus caballus przewalskii) surviving into the 20th century. It is yellowish or light red (dun) and stands 12-14 hands (48-56 in., 122-142 cm) high. It has a dark mane and tail and usually a stripe on the back. The mane is short and erect with no forelock. It was discovered in western Mongolia in the 1870s. The horse disappeared in the wild in the 1960s, but the descendants of specimens that had earlier been taken to European zoos began to be reintroduced into the Mongolian steppe in the 1990s

wild horse of central Asia that resembles an ass; now endangered

Relevante Übersetzungen

Przewalski's horses

plural form of Przewalski's horse

Synonyme

asian wild horse, dzungarian horse, mongolian wild horse

Etymologie

() After the Russian geographer and explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky.