On April 21, a baby horse was born<\/a> at the Wildlife Conservation Society\u2019s Bronx Zoo in New York City. But it wasn\u2019t just any foal that came into the world\u2014this newest resident of the Big Apple is a Przewalski\u2019s horse<\/a> (Equus ferus przewalskii), an endangered species that has been pulled back from the brink of extinction.\u00a0<\/p>\n Przewalski\u2019s horses look more like a mule than your average horse. For starters, their mane sticks up straight into the air and they don\u2019t have a forelock (horse bangs, basically). Przewalski\u2019s horses are also short, light brown, and\u2014excuse the necessary slang\u2014exceptionally chonky. They also have a really thick neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n They are also referred to as the Mongolian wild horse, and they are the only truly wild horse species left, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature<\/a> (IUCN). Though the species used to exist across Asia and Europe, their numbers plummeted so much that at one point they were deemed Extinct in the Wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t \n\t\t\t\tNew Prezawlski horse at the Bronx Zoo\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bronx Zoo has played a pivotal role in the conservation of Przewalski\u2019s horse,\u201d the Bronx Zoo wrote in a statement announcing the birth. \u201cThrough breeding programs aimed at maintaining a genetically diverse population of the species and through reintroduction efforts, zoo-bred Przewalski\u2019s horses were successfully returned to their native grasslands in China in 1989 and in Mongolia beginning in 1992.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779910628_563_hqdefault.jpg\"\/)
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