Show HORSE OF THE GOBI DESERT animal discovered by never has been famed and may oe be a distinct species it is mor to domestic ato the wild homo than it la Is to bring oth er of wild animals under linder sub jec ejection tion some hura H aars ura igo a rus explorer riis sc covered a 0 distinct wild horse in the ie gobi desert in the south of mongolia A herd of 30 colts were captured and landed in europe most of them were sent to russia but a few were shipped to tho the estate of the duko of bedford in england Hn gland they were ragged of coat arid and of awkward gait all efforts to tame them have failed they will not sub mit to mans rule and are therefore unserviceable they become badly frightened when a man approaches approach oa nearer than two or three rods of them the russians Rue claim that by methods of comparative anatomy and in other ways they have proved that the gobi desert horse la Is a distinct species or of the genus genig horse most naturalists natura lists have until now believed that the true wild horses with hn an unbroken line of wild ancestry were extinct it Is the general opinion that the he dorbeetle dornee dome sUc tle horse of today was mainly derived from three wild species which have been named the steppe forest and plateau varieties the gobl gobi horse Is a representative of the steppe variety this horse in its wild state lives in the level districts and goes nt night to the pasture lands and drinking places at break of day it 11 returns to the desert where it rests until sunset new york ll herald erald |