The Last Wild Horses on Earth

• 作者: TANG YUANKAI
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 生物学
• 关键词: 新疆维吾尔自治区 野马 地球
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（1）
• 页码范围: 54-55
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: Q959.843

摘要

<正>NATIONAL Highway 216 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is also known among locals as the Wild Horse Highway. It runs through the 17,000-sqkm Karamili Nature Reserve, a sanctuary for the Przewalski’s Horse (Equus przewalskii), or Dzungarian horse whose population is smaller than that of the giant panda. The most distinct feature of the Dzungarian horse is that its coat is generally dun in color but invariably turns black at the lower part of legs. The Junggar Basin in Xinjiang is the ancestral home of this endangered animal and it has roamed here for more than 600 billion years. In 1897 Russian geographer and