AFP: Przewalski's wild horses gallop back to life: "PRAGUE — Their galloping stocky, sandy-brown silhouettes inspired dreamy pre-historic cave paintings.
Now, an ancient species known as Przewalski's wild horse has narrowly avoided extinction thanks to zoos worldwide and is cautiously being re-introduced to its homeland on the vast Mongolian steppe.
In charge of keeping the world genealogy book for this rare species, the Prague zoo has played a key role in this historic homecoming.
"Three mares and one stallion have been acclimatising in the Mongolian province of Khomiin Tal since June," said zoo director Miroslav Bobek.
"We expect to move another four horses in 2012," he added.
For decades, Prague zoo has been breeding these sturdy animals which have survived in captivity since the last wild horse was seen in Mongolia in 1969.
More than one-third of some 1,800 Przewalski horses living all over the world today, including 1,600 in captivity, are related to horses bred at the Prague zoo."
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