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More than 700 feral wild horses live in the foothills of Cincar Mountain, between Livno and Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an area of roughly 145 km 2 (56 sq mi). These animals, which descend from horses set free by their owners in the 1950s, enjoy a protected status since 2010.
- Misaki Horse
The Misaki (御崎馬/岬馬, Misaki uma) is a critically-endangered...
- Nokota Horse
The Nokota horse is a feral and semi-feral horse breed...
- Equus Ferus Caballus
Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although...
- Banker horse
Foundation for Shackleford Horses. Equus ferus caballus. The...
- Misaki Horse
The wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus Equus, which includes as subspecies the modern domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus) as well as the endangered Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii, sometimes treated as a separate species i.e. Equus przewalskii).
The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once- domesticated animals, they are actually feral horses.
- North America
- Small, compact, good bone, very hardy
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Feral Horses in the Camarque, a national reserve in Provence, France. Feral horse can have two different meanings: All horse species (including extinct ones) which are closely related to the (domesticated) horse, but which were never domesticated; A population of horses, that were once domesticated, but are now free-roaming.
The "wild" horses that abound in Australia and North America's western plains and East Coast barrier islands are actually feral domestic horses that escaped from ranches and farms and returned to the wild. Przewalski's horses were last found on the Mongolian steppes of the Gobi Desert.
