It hasn’t always been like this. At the beginning of the nineteenth century (the 1800s), the world held a number of species of wild horses. These are horses who share a common ancestor with our horses, but have never lived with or worked for, humans. People hunted them, and sometimes collected them for zoos, until they eliminated them completely.
The last wild takhi, also called Przewalski’s horse, died sometime in the 1960s. People had loved them to death. They were already rare as a result of hunting, but when Europeans began to collect their foals (babies) for zoos they shot the adults who tried to protect the young. Too few were left for survival to be possible.
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The Mongolian Takhi 