{"id":64831,"date":"2024-06-11T01:52:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/przewalskis-horses-only-wild-species-return-central-asian-steppes-kazakhstan"},"modified":"2024-06-11T01:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:52:49","slug":"wild-horses-return-to-kazakhstan-steppes-after-absence-of-two-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64831","title":{"rendered":"Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Przewalski\u2019s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe<\/p>\n<p>A group of the world\u2019s last wild horses have returned to their native Kazakhstan after an absence of about 200 years. The seven horses, four mares from Berlin and a stallion and two other mares from Prague, were flown to the central Asian country on a Czech air force transport plane.<\/p>\n<p>The wild horses, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/mammals\/facts\/przewalskis-horse\">Przewalski\u2019s horses<\/a>, once roamed the vast steppe grasslands of central Asia, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114345#:~:text=The%20grassy%20plains%20of%20Northern,the%20first%20horses%20were%20domesticated.&amp;text=Analysis%20of%20ancient%20pottery%20showed,a%20practice%20that%20continues%20today.\">horses are believed to have been first domesticated<\/a> about 5,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/przewalskis-horses-only-wild-species-return-central-asian-steppes-kazakhstan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Przewalski\u2019s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in EuropeA group of the world\u2019s last wild horses have returned to their native Kazakhstan after an absence of about 200 years. T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,1036,65,221,262,78,299,61,42,1590,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-czech-republic","category-environment","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-life-and-style","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-zoology","category-zoos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions\/64832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}