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In Czech and English. Association copy. 1960-1979 Zoologicka Zahrada Praha (Prague, Czech Republic), two 6 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover volumes, gold lettering to spines, original multi-colored stiff wraps for each issue bound in, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, [v.1] 246, [8]; [v.2] 590 pp. (844 pages total.) Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. On a few title pages or covers, name and date stamp of prior owner who had this collection bound, Dr. Jim Dolan, who served as General Curator at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park for decades. Otherwise, apart from toning to some pages, especially in the earlier issues, a very good to near fine set of the first two decades of this important pedigree book. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~H~ [5.0P] The pedigree book for Przewalski's horse, from the first issue in 1960, continuous through the 1979 issue. Przewalski's horse, also called the takhi, Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse originally native to the steppes of Central Asia. It is named after the Russian geographer and explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky. Once extinct in the wild, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat since the 1990s in Mongolia at the Khustain Nuruu National Park, Takhin Tal Nature Reserve, and Khomiin Tal, as well as several other locales in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Several genetic characteristics of Przewalski's horse differ from what is seen in modern domestic horses, indicating neither is an ancestor of the other. For example, the Przewalski has 33 chromosome pairs, compared to 32 for the domestic horse. Their ancestral lineages split from a common ancestor between 38,000 and 160,000 years ago, long before the domestication of the horse. Its taxonomic position is still debated, with some taxonomists treating Przewalski's horse as a species, E. przewalskii, others as a subspecies of wild horse (E. ferus przewalskii) or a variety of the domesticated horse (E. caballus). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers H-0732-13649
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