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The only truly wild horses in existence today are Przewalski's horse native to the steppes of central Asia.. A modern wild horse population (janghali ghura) is found in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere reserve of Assam, in north-east India, and is a herd of about 79 horses descended from animals that escaped army camps during World War II.
The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors.Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated animals, they are actually feral horses.
The term "wild horse" is also used colloquially in reference to free-roaming herds of feral horses; for example, the mustang in the United States, [15] and the brumby in Australia. [16] These feral horses are untamed members of the domestic horse (Equus caballus), not to be confused with the truly "wild" horse subspecies extant into modern times.
A truly wild horse is a species or subspecies with no ancestors that were ever successfully domesticated. Therefore, most "wild" horses today are actually feral horses, animals that escaped or were turned loose from domestic herds and the descendants of those animals. [135]
The term brumby refers to a feral horse in Australia. [8] Earlier nineteenth-century terms for wild horses in rural Australia included clear-skins and scrubbers. [9]The earliest known use of brumby in speech (1862, recorded 1896) is on the plains around the Barwon River and Narran River in northern New South Wales. [10]
Przewalski's horse (/(p) ʃ ə ˈ v ɑː l s k iː z, ˌ p ɜːr ʒ ə-/ (p)shə-VAHL-skeez, PUR-zhə-; [3] Russian: [prʐɨˈvalʲskʲɪj] (Пржевальский); Polish: [pʂɛˈvalskʲi]; Equus ferus przewalskii or Equus przewalskii [4]), also called the takhi (Mongolian: Тахь), [5] Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse originally native to the ...
Other isolated feral populations exist, including the Chincoteague Pony and the Banker horse. They are often referred to as "wild horses", but this is a misnomer. There are truly "wild" horses that have never been domesticated, most notably Przewalski's horse. [9]
The Banker horse is a breed [1] of semi-feral or feral horse (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy, and has a docile temperament, and is genetically related to the Carolina Marsh Tacky of South Carolina and Florida Cracker Horse breeds through their shared Colonial Spanish horse and Iberian horse descent.