. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park . Zoos; Zoo animals. 48 POrULAK OFFICIAL GRANT'S ZEBRA. The Prjevalsky Horses, (Equus prjevalskii).—Oi all the wild eqiiines which either now or hereafter may be seen in the Zoolosical Park, the strange little wild horses from western Mongolia are, and probably will remain, the most interesting, from a zoological point of view. Broadly speak- ing, they are the connecting link between the many-striped zebras, the little-striped qnaggas and the wild asses on one side, and the domestic, nnstriped horse on the other. These wild horse
. Popular official guide to the New York Zoological Park . Zoos; Zoo animals. 48 POrULAK OFFICIAL GRANT'S ZEBRA. The Prjevalsky Horses, (Equus prjevalskii).—Oi all the wild eqiiines which either now or hereafter may be seen in the Zoolosical Park, the strange little wild horses from western Mongolia are, and probably will remain, the most interesting, from a zoological point of view. Broadly speak- ing, they are the connecting link between the many-striped zebras, the little-striped qnaggas and the wild asses on one side, and the domestic, nnstriped horse on the other. These wild horses possess a narrow, dark dorsal stripe, which, in the winter pelage is scarcely visible, but in summer is plainly evident. A perfect specimen has an erect mane, no long forelock and no "chestnuts" on its legs. On the upper half of its tail the hair is short, and mule-like, but on the lower, or terminal half, it is long and horse-like. The win- ter coat of this animal is very long and shaggj^ The parents of these horses were captured in 1900, by an expedition sent out by Carl Hagenbeck, in Sungaria, west- ern Mongolia, between the Altai and Thian-Shan Mountains. The expedition about $25,000, and of the 52 colts cap- tured by the wild Khirgiz horsemen employed in Ihe chase, only 23 reached Hamburg alive. The specimens exliibite(l. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937; New York Zoological Society. New York : New York Zoological Society
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