Re: Horse

From: Daryl Krupa (icycalmca_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 20:57:53 -0800

I.E_Johansson wrote:
> "Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:1106731041.056172.187220@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
<snip>
> > Of course, none of that changes the fact that horses
> > were perfectly natural in Interglacial Britain.
> > Dulling the edges on my petard (ouch!),
<snip>

> But was it horses as we know them or did they look much different?

This is the result of an attempt to revive the tarpan,
also known as Konik Pony:

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/tarpan/

Some of them turn white in winter.

Two of the breeds used to reconstruct the tarpan were
the Icelandic Pony, and the Swedish Gotlands, also known as
Russ:

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/gotland/index.htm

The Forest Tarpan (Equus caballus sylvaticus) was larger.
It might look like the Exmoor Pony:

http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/images/ex_grp.jpg

Something called the Waldtarpan (also called Equus ferus
gmelini) has been reconstructed:

http://www.natur-russland.de/tierwelt_pflanzen/saugetiere/wildpferde/index.html

Comparisons of different ancient horses as represented today
(sorry, some pop-ups):

http://caballospastoreo.galeon.com/productos806041.html

An artist's rendering of the relationship between
early Britons and ponies:
http://users.quista.net/epic/images/cavemn.gif

Daryl Krupa

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