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Przewalski’s horse: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Prejevalsky’s horse • Preyevalsky’s horse • Przhevalsky’s horse • Equus ferus przewalskii • Equus caballus przewalskii

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Three Przewalski's horses with short, upright manes stand and graze on a grassy plain, with one horse looking toward the camera.
Illustration of Przewalski's horse, Equus caballus przewalskii, showing a stocky, tan-colored wild horse with a short, upright dark mane, walking to the right. A scale bar indicates size.
This diagram traces the evolution of the horse from the small, multi-toed Hyracotherium (dawn horse) of the Eocene epoch to the modern single-toed Equus, showing changes in size, limb structure, and forefoot bones, with illustrations of key ancestral species to scale.
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