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PRZHEVALSKI'S HORSE RETURNS
Wild horses axe to return to their native steppes, according to an
international project initiated by Soviet experts in the Askania-Nova reserve.
Unfortunately, the fate of this animal is rather typical. Discovered in 1879
in Central Asia by the famous Russian traveller Nikolai Przhevalski, it soon
became a rare breed. It has seen last in nature in the middle of the 20th century.
Since then these remarkable steppe horses: have only been seen in zoos.
The Institute Askania-Nova situated in the biospheric reserve if the same
name in south Ukraine has become well known by its work of many years on
breeding and studying Przhevalski's horses. The first samples were brought there
late in the 19th century and in the 1950s the reserve became the owner of the last
species caught in wildlife and presented by Mongolian scientists. This mare
named Orlitsa-3 has been acknowledged as world model of the species. She
became the progenitor of the herd multiplying in the steppe of the Askania
reserve.
Today there are about 600 such horses in the zoos of our planet.. One
hundred of them were born in Askania-Nova. This reserve has accumulated the
richest knowledge about the life, behaviour and habits of these animals; their
ration and "family" relations. Scientists of Askania-Nova cooperate with their
colleagues from many countries, exchange horses with zoos in other countries.
The Askania herd has been selected for the programme of returning Przhevalki's
horse to its native land not only because it Is the most numerous. It is just as
important.that unlike other members of this breed kept in zoos Askania horses
never knew what captivity is. Inhabiting the vast and enclosed area of the
maiden steppe they have retained the natural instincts, developed in the
millennia of evolution and needed for life outside captivity.
This no small thing. Let's take the ability of the leader to guide his family
of mares and growing foals. A great deal depends on It whether the herd will
survive in severe natural condition». One must see with what skill Parad -
grandson of Orlitea-3 -guides his team and saves them from any danger. Experts
had an opportunity to compare his "work" with the behaviour of stallions grown
in zoos, received in exchange from the USA. They did not and could not have
such habits, their herds, as scientists put it, were like an ordinary village herd
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