The Domesticated Horse

His horse, Equus ferus caballus, is a subspecies of the Equidae family. During the past 50 million years, through normal survival adaptation, normal horses have evolved from relatively small multipod animals to large single legged animals known today (Wilson, World Mammal Species (3 rd edition) ). . Domestication of common horses started from around 4000 BC and was thought to be common in the early 3000s (Wilson, World Mammal Species (3 rd edition), Baltimore). Domestication is the process by which wild species are transferred to natural habitats and adapted to survive and propagate under breeding.

Who is the domestic horse's wild ancestor? The various evidences collected before show that Botima is a potential ancestor of all domestic horses. Botai people are an ancient group of hunters and nomads living in northern Kazakhstan. Their ruins dates back to about 5 500 years ago and fragments of ceramics containing residues of horse milk are scattered. This indicates that the horse is a source of food. Ancient horse's tooth marks are consistent with horseback riding and tethering, indicating that horses are also used for transport, together with the ruins of ancient seat belts on the Botai premises. In addition, there are many ancient horse bones in these ruins, and the DNA extracted from these bones refers to Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan as a source of livestock (Reference)

Horse domestication is most likely to occur in Central Asia before 3500 BC. Two main sources of information were used to determine where and when the horse was raised for the first time and how the raised horses spread all over the world. The first source is based on the discovery of ancient and archeology; the second source is a comparison of the DNA obtained from modern horses with the bones and teeth of the ancient horse's remains. The earliest archaeological evidence of domesticated horses comes from the ruins of Ukraine and Kazakhstan and dates from 3500 BC to 4000 BC. By 3000 BC the horse was completely domesticated and by the year 2000 BC the number of horse bones found in the Northwest European settlements increased dramatically.

The horse of Przewalski (shuh-val-skee) native to the Central Asian prairie is the only horse that has never been domesticated. ("Wild horses" are not really wild like American wild horses.They are domestic horse descendants.) Przewalski's horses (commonly known as P horses) survived . Oops, on behalf of the occupation of the Nazis, they used them from the occupied countries (such as the Warsaw Zoo) to show off the German zoo. He is also enthusiastic to use wild horses as part of his Tarpan trying to counter the extinction.