Wild for wild horses

Last Monday, we went to a national park about an hour and a half out of town to see wild horses. Called Przewalsky horses (or tahi in Mongolian), these horses were reintroduced to the area after disappearing in the wild several decades ago.

Tahi have 66 chromosomes instead of the usual 64 chromosomes for a horse. I don't quite know what this means but it's interesting.

There's 197 horses in the 50,000 hectare park. They hang out in groups of up to 20 horses.
We saw three separate groups while we were there. They were quite pretty and we spent a long time observing them from a safe distance. There were young foals in the groups. The baby horses are white for the first year.

We also saw deer in the park and hiked a mountain. Our group were the only ones visiting the park... all this space and only the wildlife to share it with.

Again, we'll upload our photos as soon as we can.