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Article: Back from the brink: the world's last truly wild horses had disappeared from Mongolia. Now scientists are returning the animals to their native land.(Life: endangered species)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- April 5, 2004
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Thirty-five years ago, the people of Mongolia caught what they thought was their final glimpse of a wild takh, the world's last remaining species of untamed horse. To some people, the horse became just another species on the long list of animals that are extinct (no longer living) in the wild. But to a group of scientists who refused to see extinction in the wild as a point of no return, the disappearance became a challenge: Two decades ago, they turned to zoos for help in bringing captive-bred takhi (plural for takh) back to their native land. Today takhi--the Mongolian national symbol--have returned to the vast steppes (open grasslands) that cover much of the country.
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