Przewalski's horse
by Miroslava Jurcik
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Przewalski's horse
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
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Przewalski's horses are the last surviving subspecies of wild horse. First described scientifically in the late 19th century by Russian explorer N. M. Przewalski, for whom the horse is named, the horse once freely roamed the steppe along the Mongolia-China border. Never again seen in the wild, Przewalskis horses have since been kept and bred in captivity and have recently been reintroduced in Mongolia. While their greatest threats today include a loss of genetic diversity, their extinction in the wild was also brought on by hunting, loss of habitat, and loss of water sources to domestic animals.
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August 18th, 2014
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