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Przewalski's Horse — printable fact sheet
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Przewalski's Horse
Equus ferus przewalskii
Equus ferus przewalskii was long presented as the last truly wild horse, the untouched ancestor of everything in a stable, and genomics has demolished that story. A 2018 study of Botai culture remains in Kazakhstan found that the horses domesticated at Botai around 5,500 years a…
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- Przewalski's Horse was once considered extinct in the wild and survived only in zoos for much of the 20th century.
- A herd of Przewalski's horses lives inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, released in 1998, and has thrived in the absence of people, with camera traps finding them sheltering inside abandoned buildings. In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal named Kurt was cloned from cell lines cryopreserved in 1980, deliberately reintroducing genetic diversity from a stallion that had been dead for decades. Unlike domestic horses, the species sheds its mane annually and does not grow a forelock, so a Przewalski's horse never has a fringe over its eyes.
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