Wild #horses trot past the Hermitage of El Rocío during the annual Saca de las Yeguas (roundup of the wild mares) in Almonte, south-western #Spain. Each year in late June large herds of free-roaming horses are rounded up from the marshes and forests at the Doñana National Park to be driven past the hermitage, where they are blessed before heading on to run through the crowded streets
Przewalski’s horses play in a meadow at the acclimatisation enclosure in the village of Dolní Dobřejov, Czech Republic. Prague Zoo is returning the wild horses to Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe after a two-century absence. This month the first group of seven arrived. “These are the first wild horses which have touched soil in the steppes of central Kazakhstan in hundreds of years,” said zoo director Miroslav Bobek
Archaeologists have traced the origin of the horse and why humans ride them
“Researchers believe the very earliest horse ancestors arose in North America, then sauntered across the Bering Strait into Asia around a million years ago. They flourished in Asia, but went extinct in the Americas.”