普氏野马 (Equus ferus przewalskii) 是一种生活在蒙古大草原上的野马，又被称为蒙古野马和准噶尔野马，蒙古语称之为“takhi”。与其他大部分的马科物种相比，普氏野马体型较小且较为粗壮。它们身长 2.1 米至 2.6 米，肩高 1.2 米至 1.5 米。成年个体的体重介于 250 公斤至 360 公斤之间。雄性的体型可能比雌性略大，但此物种没有明显的两性异形。它们的皮毛呈橙褐色，腹部的颜色较浅，并有醒目的黑色竖直鬃毛、黑色的粗马尾和黑色的腿部。
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The exact taxonomic status of Przewalski’s horse is still debated, some arguing it is a subspecies of what became the domestic horse, while others classify it as a separate species of wild horse.
Przewalski’s horse has 33 chromosomal pairs, whereas modern domestic horses have 32, indicating they became genetically separate long ago.
In 2020, the first cloned Przewalski’s horse was born as part of an assisted breeding programme. The foal was created using a frozen cell from a stallion that died in 1998 and is hoped to add much needed genetic diversity back into the population.
There are over 100 Przewalski’s horses living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Eastern Europe.
Przewalski’s horse is thought to be similar in appearance to what the wild ancestors of the domesticated horse could have looked like, with a dun coat and primitive markings on the back and the legs.
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