VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

EQUIDS

• The following members belong to equidae:
• Wild horse (Przewalski’s wild horse)
• Wild asses (Number of Asian and African wild asses) : Seen in Gujarat state
• Zebras
• All members of equidae family are solipeds and like the domestic horse they are descendants of the early ‘dawn horse’ (Eohippus) of some million years ago.