Przewalski's horse

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Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii or Equus przewalskii), also called the takhi, Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered wild horse originally native to the steppes of Central Asia. It is named after Russian geographer and explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky. Once extinct in the wild, since the 1990s, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat in Mongolia in the Hustai National Park, Takhin Tal Nature Reserve, Khomiin Tal, and several other locales in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Several genetic characteristics of Przewalski's horse differ from those seen in modern domesticated horses, indicating neither is an ancestor of the other. For example, Przewalski's horse has 33 chromosome pairs compared with 32 for the domesticated horse. Their ancestral lineages split from a common ancestor between 160,000 and 38,000 years ago, long before the domestication of the horse. Przewalski's horse was long considered the only remaining truly wild horse, in contrast...

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