. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE HORSE TRIBE 175. MALE KIANG The hiang conies from the Tibetan highlands. It is the largest and most horse-like of the luild asses of Asia range, but of woody plants on the high mountain-plateaux, where little else is to be obtained. Of wild asses in general the late Sir Samuel Baker once said: "Those who have seen donkeys only in their civilised state can have no conception of the wild or original animal; it is the perfection of activity and ; DOMESTICATED HORSE, ASSES, AND MULES BY W. P. PYCRAFT, , The Domesticated Horse Li
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE HORSE TRIBE 175. MALE KIANG The hiang conies from the Tibetan highlands. It is the largest and most horse-like of the luild asses of Asia range, but of woody plants on the high mountain-plateaux, where little else is to be obtained. Of wild asses in general the late Sir Samuel Baker once said: "Those who have seen donkeys only in their civilised state can have no conception of the wild or original animal; it is the perfection of activity and ; DOMESTICATED HORSE, ASSES, AND MULES BY W. P. PYCRAFT, , The Domesticated Horse Like the wild camels, genuine wild horses are very generally believed to be extinct. The vast herds which occur to-day in a wild state in Europe, America, and Australia are to be regarded, say those who believe in the extinction theory, as descended from domesticated animals which have run wild. So far as the American and Australian horses are concerned, this is no doubt true; but of the European stocks it is by no means so certain. For Dr. Nehring — and he speaks with authority — assures us that the wild horses known as Tarpans, which occur on the steppes north of the Sea of Azoff, between the river Dnieper and the Caspian, are veritable wild horses, the last remaining members of enormous herds which occurred in Europe before the dawn of civilisation. These horses formed no small part of the food of the savage races of men then inhabiting this continent. This we know because of the quantities of their remains found in the caves of the south of France, for instance, associated with the remains of the men who hunted them. Further evidence of this we have in the shape of crude engravings on pieces of bone and deer horns, carved by the more artistic spirits amongst these early hunters. From these drawings we gather that the horse they hunted was small in size and heavy in build, with a large head and rough, shaggy mane and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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