Large ungulates, body length 220-280 cm, 120 cm above shoulder height, weight over 200 kg. Head raised, neck thick, the ears shorter than the donkey ears, hooves wide circle. Outside the image of the whole horse, but no frontal hair, short and upright neck bristle. Summer and light brown hair, pale sides and limbs inside the abdomen cream; winter and thick hair slightly longer, lighter color, cheeks are red brown long hair. Gentle slopes of the mountain habitat in the steppe, desert and aquatic plants slightly better conditions of the desert, the Gobi. Mustang of the alert, good-Benz; generally strong leader to form a male horse only 5-20 horses, camp wavering life. More in the twilight along a fixed route to the springs, drinking from a stream. Eating Achnatherum, Haloxylon, reeds, etc., can be away with the snow in winter hay feeding. June mating, calving March 4-5 next year, every child a young, immature horse a few hours after birth, will be able to run with the group. Przewalskii originally distributed in the northern Junggar Basin, Northwest China's Xinjiang Tashan and Gansu, Inner Mongolia border Mazongshan area. The last time that the Mustang was in 1957 estimated that wild populations have become extinct, there are still a number of wild horses living in captivity or semi-free run state. Since the late 80s, Mustang brought back from Europe odd _set_s of Xinjiang, Gansu, Wuwei half Enclosures farming, carried out for the Broncos to return to nature, scientific experiments and research work.
Translated by Google
Przewalskii history
Wild horses found in the records before "Biography": King Mu of Zhou Journey East go when the Queen Mother sent King Mu of Zhou "Mustang bison forty, seventy keep dogs, are offering fresh horse." "Compendium of Materia Medica" is a "wild horses like family and small, out beyond the Great Wall, whichever may be fur skin, eat its meat, horse meat goes Home." According to records, the Western Zhou Dynasty have started killing wild horses, as food and gifts. The expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, Genghis Khan shuaibing basin, killing wild horses have been seen as an important measure of whether the heroes of the standard. Qidan poet Yelüehucai "thousands of mixed group of wild goats, warrior bow damage strange beast," the poem's name is a true portrayal of the time.
Translated by Google
Przewalskii habits
Platts wild horse living in the open desert or desert areas, thirty-five or more than just loitering in groups. Groups of individuals to each other between the regular consumption of cleaning up after the skin, usually standing opposite direction, and then head into the peer sideways, gently wipe each other's Society for a bite, shoulder, dorsal, buttocks and so on. Interestingly, the two sides are the same swab bite site, when one changes position, the other party immediately changed accordingly, with great understanding and improvement. Sometimes for their own care, including roll, self-brushed, and to disperse mosquitoes, etc., especially in the sand. Rest and sleep are standing, lying ventral and lateral positions such as 3, but vigilance is high, anything moving is in the stress state. Feeling sensitive, high vigilance, ability to run day and night activities, but the night is more edge to edge on the desert grass, reeds, tamarisk, etc. for food, drinking water are also high. There are many types of calls, when the fight is to issue a single voice sharp and roaring; loss group loud and high-pitched sound when the call signal; feel some satisfaction, it issued a slightly guttural; when the tip is issued when the offensive fine sound. More often broke the nose, the expression of emotion is very complex, mostly intimidate each other, but also sometimes as a nasal foreign body, mosquitoes, interference, odor irritation or flu illness factors. Przewalskii heat all year round, but mainly in spring and summer. Females of the estrous cycle is 28 to 22 days, lasting 5 to 7 days. Heat when the performance of mental excitement, loss of appetite, irritability, lying variable from each other and sniffing and so on. Leading group to compete for the position, the male horse stands still between the head, eyes staring, ears facing forward, then screamed, forepaw plane, the broke nose, bow trot, nose spray coarse, close to each other after the olfactory sip ears, glare, Lifters forepaw with a sharp but short of yelling, and then put up the predecessor of struggling together, and its cruel and fierce fighting level much stronger than the domestic horse. Between female horses have some attacks, mainly higher status often show care and prevent the other female food horse horse mating with males. Before mating, the male horse and female horse sniffing each other perineum and external genitalia, and buttocks toward the female horse stallion, stallion horse is nibbling at the neck or knee estrogen to promote female horse forward, and then Pa Kua, After 3 to 7 times to complete the pelvic impulse ejaculation. Robust male horse in 30 minutes and two females mated eight consecutive times. Mare's gestation period is about 307 ~ 348 days, 5 to 6 month litter next year. When pups born to light yellowish brown, 2 hours after feeding. 3-year-old sexual maturity, life expectancy is 30 years old.
Translated by Google
The extinction of wild przewalskii and stocking
Part przewalskii home later evolved into the current horse. That is part of the domestic horse Equus przewalskii ancestors.