Przewalski’s Horse Vaide Relocates to Tallinn Zoo

Tallinn Zoo acquired a rare Przewalski’s horse. The 20-year-old mare, named Vaide, arrived there last week from the Riga Zoo.

Named after a 19th-century Polish geographer and explorer, Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) is genetically quite different from the modern domestic horses (Equus ferus caballus), which suggests that neither is the precursor of the other.

Przewalski’s horse became extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced in Mongolia since the 1990s. It was originally native to that country and the steppes of Central Asia.

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