Running wild, Przewalski’s horses in Hungary
Hungary’s Przewalski’s horse population is the ideal training ground for the long-term reintroduction of this rare equid to the wild. An article in Zooquaria, the quarterly magazine of EAZA, by Waltraut Zimmermann, Przewalski’s horse EEP coordinator, Cologne Zoo, Germany and Kristin Brabender, biologist, National Park Hortobágy, Hungary about the Pentezug area, belonging to the core zone of the Hortobágy National Park in Hungary, seeming to be an ideal experimental field for monitoring Przewalski’s horses under natural conditions.
The aims of the project were:
- Long-term preservation of the steppe consisting of different plant communities.
- Preservation of diversity of fauna as well as of especially endangered animal species (eg great bustard).
- Creation of a population of Przewalski’s horses with a natural age structure and balanced sex ratio to gain knowledge about ecology, social organisation and population biology under nearly natural conditions.
The Pentezug area, however –
belonging to the core zone of the
Hortobágy National Park in Hungary –
seemed to be an ideal experimental field
for monitoring Przewalski’s horses under
natural conditions.
belonging to the core zone of the
Hortobágy National Park in Hungary –
seemed to be an ideal experimental field
for monitoring Przewalski’s horses under
natural conditions.
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