ASAIN WILD HORSE

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I received a Horse Calendar for Christmas and there is a notation that the "Asian Wild Horse is the only true wild horse still in existence".

So I looked it up - here is a picture by Eva Hejda on naturecom.de: http://pictures.naturecom.de/images/11-166.html
Doesn't it look like a mule with short ears? Has anyone actually ever seen one? Reminds me of a brown Zebra without stripes too...

Another interesting factor I found cruising was that the ASAIN WILD HORSE: PRZEWALSKI'S HORSE: Its chromosome count is different to the domestic horse (66 as opposed to 64). Our world is indeed mysterious. Deelite.

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Doesn't it look like a mule with short ears? Has anyone actually ever seen one? Reminds me of a brown Zebra without stripes too...

I must agree with you on this description Dee, and I have also heard from several sources that the Przewalski (Shi-val-ski) is the only truely wild horse remaining to this day. However, just as there are tons of sources who will tell you that the Arabian is the oldest documented breed, you will find that there are breeds out there who claim to be older, and there are breeds out there who claim to be native wild stock in other places. So, take 'yer' pick, it would seem that whatever you like to believe, it is a safe bet you will find someone to agree with you.
Thanks for sharing the link, I think they are adorable, in their own way.
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Yes, they were a world away --
Formerly of the grassland and steppe in China and Mongolia;
the last refuge in the wild of the the Asian wild horse, Przewalski's horse (Equus przewalski), was the Great Gobi Desert where it lived enduring extreme conditions: temps 40 degrees Celsius (104F) in the summer and fall to minus40 degrees Celsius (-40F) in the winter.., and rain falls almost never (maybe every year or two).
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