Herd movements show the complex society of the last wild horses

Studying the movements of Przewalski's horses makes it possible to anticipate which harem a female will go to or which one she comes from. Far from moving chaotically, a herd of the last subspecies of wild equids does so following a rigid and hierarchical social structure. The oldest stallions with the largest harems group together in an exercise of collective defense seen in very few species, apart from hominids.

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