Przewalski's horse | 台北市立動物園資訊網

przewalskii,othersasasubspeciesofwildhorse(E.ferusprzewalskii)oraferalvarietyofthedomesticatedhorse(E.f.caballus).ItisnamedaftertheRussian ...

Subspecies of mammal

Przewalskis horse (,[3] ,[3][4] (Пржевальский Russian: [prʐɨˈvalʲskʲɪj]), Polish: [pʂɛˈvalskʲi]) (Equus ferus przewalskii or Equus przewalskii[5]), also called the takhi,[6] Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse originally native to the steppes of Central Asia. It is named after the Russian geographer and explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky. Once extinct in the wild, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat since the 1990s in Mongolia at the Khustain Nuruu National Park, Takhin Tal Nature Reserve, and Khomiin Tal, as well as several other locales in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.[1]

Several genetic characteristics of Przewalskis horse differ from what is seen in modern domestic horses, indicating neither is an ancestor of the other. For example, the Przewalski has 33 chromosome pairs, compared to 32 for the domes...