Wild horses are EXTINCT: Domesticated breeds are now the only ones to survive on the planet, [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 23, 2018 | Joe Pinkstone

[C19fan]

The last 'wild' horses is the world are not truly wild, according to a shock DNA study.

Przewalski's horses, a breed thought to be the last 'wild' species, are the descendants of escaped once-domesticated animals.

The research turns the mysterious origin of domesticated horses 'upside down', experts claim.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What about Nevada? Couldn’t they be forcibly impregnated?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Couldn’t they be forcibly impregnated?”

Is Harvey Weinstein back from rehab?

[tet68]

domesticated horses brought over from Europe who escaped.

Right, you mean the enslaved horse-persons who were
subject to cis-normative white patriarchy who threw
off the bonds of servitude in order to return
to their former noble state? The ones brought
across the turbulent ocean against their will
on slave ships under horrid conditons just to be
worked to death or used to frighten or oppress the
native peoples of a new land?

[Theoria]

Yes. And can breed with other equine to create Zebroids.

[stars & stripes forever]

[Every animal on earth was ‘wild’ until we ‘domesticated’ them. That includes humans!!!!!!]

Adam and Eve were created in the image of GOD. Mankind did not become “wild” until after the fall.

[DannyTN]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There were probably several different variations of the ancestral wild (never domesticated) horses, before the dawn of the age of civilization.

Selective breeding created the horse as we know it, AFAIK. I think their ancestors were much too small to be useful for much . . .

[Mercat]

But I think they’re sterile, like mules.

[TalonDJ]

Wild horses are all over the west. I passed a herd of twenty of so on my commute this morning.

However if you try to get near them and also try to get near some antelope it is pretty darn clear which are truly wild which are just ‘feral’ domesticated animals.

[shotgun]

All horses are wild until their broke at a mimimum to be haltered and led. They are a natural prey animal and those instincts cannot be bread out of them. Even the most dead-broke horse will retain those instincts.

[SunkenCiv]

Dammit... I was gonna use that... had the good sense to check for a change. ;’D

[SunkenCiv]

Both are equids, they have different chromosome counts. Zebras and donkeys are more simlar to each other. In an archaeological site in Spain the mostly complete skeletons of several “unknown equids” were found, they were from some otherwise unknown species. Last I knew...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan. There are likewise no wild chickens, or even the wild ancestors of the common house cat. For that matter, the origin of the domesticated dog continues to be "settled" with new data (a search will turn up plenty).

• Horse Gene Map | ILAR Journal | Oxford Academic

[SunkenCiv]

Federico Tesio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Tesio

[Mastador1]

So there are no more Przewalski’s horses?

[Godebert]

Read the article. The Przewalski’s horse descend from escaped domesticated horses.

[dfwgator]

Surprised it took 7 posts.

I liked The Sundays version as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyCkSOF1pc

[Mastador1]

Yes but they are considered Wild Horses, hence my question. Other publications state matter of factly that the Przewalski is the last wild horse. So it just depends on whose expert opinion you take.

[Godebert]

The study is new, just published in the journal, Science. Again, did you read the article? The Przewalski horse is descended from domesticated horses. This was confirmed by the genetic research study. Are you disputing the research?

[ThanhPhero]

Donkeys.