A greyish wild horse that was formerly common in eastern Europe and western Asia, hunted to extinction by 1919.
Equus caballus gomelini, family Equidae
Example sentencesExamples
- It took several generations to bring back wild horses that most closely resemble the original tarpan.
- Surprisingly like tarpans in skull and build, the mares were bred to Przewalski stallions.
- They essentially tried to do the same thing with the tarpans and the forest bison and some other animals.
- These are special breeds created from domestic cattle and horses that are similar to aurochs and tarpans that once roamed in the wild in park-like forests and meadows.
- The last wild tarpans were killed off in 1851.