The keeper says the Przewalski’s horses are “one of my favourites”.<\/p>\n
“They’re very special, so they have some similarity to domestic horses but they’re wild.<\/p>\n
“They are these shorter, stockier, chunky little things that are very feisty, very hardy because they have to live in a really harsh environment, occasionally.”<\/p>\n
The zoo says the Przewalski’s horses alive today “are descended from just 12 captive individuals after the population in the wild was declared extinct”.<\/p>\n
“They’re really interesting to work with because of how they interact socially,” Wolff says.<\/p>\n
“You do have to be quite careful when you’re with them. When they kick off at each other, it can be quite scary and I think if people saw it, they’d be quite shocked.”<\/p>\n
She says that on 22 January, two of the Marwell’s female horses – Shara and Togs – left the zoo to return to the wild in their native Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
Rhiannon adds they had made it to Berlin, thus completing the first part of their journey.<\/p>\n