HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH and reliance upon the equine family of beasts (horses, donkeys and mules) for food, transportation and companionship are more than 4,000 years old. Traces of the ‘wild’ horse are all but obscured by the ubiquity of domesticated bloodlines. Still, some breeds of horse still surviving in the mountains of Central Asia (where they were first domesticated) remain closer to their wild origins than Arabian and European ‘thoroughbreds’, and are much better adapted to life at altitude.
The Kyrgyz horse is a stout, hardy creature that can scavenge food from under a heavy layer of ...
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