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tarpan

[ UK /tˈɑːpæn/ ]
NOUN
  1. European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century

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  • Elephant for the mammoth Cheetah for the New World cheetah Przewalski's horse for the tarpan In one proposal to "rewild" North America, Asian and African elephants would play the ecological role of the now-extinct Columbian mammoth. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
  • In the Netherlands, almost a thousand wild horses bred to resemble the extinct tarpan graze in a 14,000-acre preserve. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
  • He brought in konik horses — analogs of the tarpan. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
  • Surprisingly like tarpans in skull and build, the mares were bred to Przewalski stallions.
  • This death rite is known as Shraddha or tarpan and is considered as an inauspicious ceremony. Archive 2009-09-01
  • It took several generations to bring back wild horses that most closely resemble the original tarpan.
  • A zone of 275 ha is used for breeding bison and wild horse of forest tarpan type, in the south-western part of the site. Bialowieza Forest, Poland
  • They essentially tried to do the same thing with the tarpans and the forest bison and some other animals.
  • The tarpan, the European wild forest horse Equus caballini gmelini used to live in the forest, became extinct, but was genetically reconstituted and reintroduced. Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
  • The last wild tarpans were killed off in 1851.
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