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Show U.S., Soviets will trade rare breed of stallion Horse trading between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will include a swap of mares and stallions of the nearly extinct Prezewalski horse, believed to be the only true species of wild horses and the ancestor of all horses. Soviet zoo officials want to decrease inbreeding among the herd so it can be expanded and reintroduced to its homeland, the Mongolian steppes. Zoologists from New York and San Diego will travel to the Soviet Union with a stallion and two mares. The U.S. will receive a stallion and two mares from the Soviets next month. The trade, negotiated for two years, includes a stipulation that a horse would be replaced if it failed to breed in ' two years. Only 420 of the horses are known to be left in the world all in captivity-including captivity-including 85 in this country. The species is named after a Polish colonel in the Russian army who sent a skull and skin of the horse to a Russian zoologist for identification. |