Saving the Last Truly Wild Horse

Przewalski’s horses are truly wild horses, even the ones held in
captivity. They traditionally roamed the Central Asian steppes, so
you can imagine everyone’s surprise when two separate accounts on
TikTok claimed to have found a Przewalski’s horse here in the U.S.
But as guest and Scientific American associate news editor Allison
Parshall will tell you, the real story is the remarkable
conservation efforts that led to a resurgence for this horse, which
was once considered extinct in the wild. The Last Wild Horses Are
Finally Returning to Their Natural Habitat  How a Cloned
Ferret Inspired a DNA Bank for Endangered Species  Science
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