Reintroduced Przewalski's horses have a different diet

Date:  July 20, 2017

Source:  University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna

Summary:  The preferred fodder of horses is grass. This is true for domestic horses and wild horses in the Gobi Desert. Researchers have now found through tail hair analysis that before their extinction in the wild Przewalski's horses had been on a different diet than today. Thanks to improved societal attitude, the horses have now access to richer pastures. In former times, the wild horses were hunted and chased away.

     

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Endangered Przewalski’s Horse Breaks Neck, Just as National Zoo Releases Neglect Report (Op-Ed)

Marc Bekoff, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is one of the world's pioneering cognitive ethologists, a Guggenheim Fellow, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Bekoff's latest book is Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed (New World Library, 2013). He contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

On December 11, CBS aired a special report on charges of animal neglect — death, injuries and escapes — at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. In the segment, investigative reporter Sharyl Atkisson asked why the zoo had not yet released its report in response to the numerous serious charges, some of which are months old, and the spokesperson for the zoo, Pamela Baker-Masson, responded that the zoo needs to release the information "in a thorough and process-oriented way that makes sense."

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Endangered Horses Spotted in Valentine's Nuzzle

Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor

Date: 14 February 2013 Time: 05:00 PM ET

Keepers at Scotland's Highlands Wildlife Park managed to catch a loving moment between two of their animals, just in time for Valentine's Day.

Photo:  Una Richardson

Two Przewalski's horses, mare Sara and stallion Hero, were photographed nuzzling each other in their park enclosure.

Przewalski's horses, native to the steppes of central Asia, are the only true wild horses left on the planet. Once listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "extinct in the wild," the discovery of a single mature individual in the wild caused the species to be re-listed as Critically Endangered, according to the IUCN entry on the species.

Read on:  http://www.livescience.com/27166-przewalski-horse-photo.html