Uterine Prolapse in a Przewalski's Horse (Equus przewalskii)

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
R. C. Cambre
1999 ◽  
Vol 181 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoki Sasaki ◽  
Hideki Endo ◽  
Daishiro Yamagiwa ◽  
Masako Yamamoto ◽  
Kazuyoshi Arishima ◽  
...  

Oryx ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver A. Ryder

Efforts are under way to re-establish free-living populations of Przewalski's horse Equus przewalskii from zoo-bred individuals. The time is opportune to begin such initiatives as there are more than 660 individuals dispersed in over 70 zoological collections. In addition, the captive population is now increasing rapidly and has the potential to provide reasonable numbers of animals for reintroduction programmes without jeopardizing the maintenance of the population that serves as an ex-situ gene pool nucleus.


1999 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1019-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoki SASAKI ◽  
Yoshihiro HAYASHI ◽  
Hiroshi KOIE ◽  
Yoshiki YAMAYA ◽  
unpei JKIMURA ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Jiří Volf

Only 62 individuals of the Przewalski’s horse (Equus przewalski) were brought from the wild to captivity during the period of the known existence of their wild population (1881 – ca. 1968), 24 males and 30 females in 1899–1903; 1 male and 4 females in 1942–1945; 1 male and 2 females in 1947. Of these horses, only 12 individuals (6 males, 6 females) from the first imports and a female from 1947 entered the global breeding programme of the Przewalski’s horse.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Zhou ◽  
Jianming Yang ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Yingjie Qi ◽  
Wei Ma ◽  
...  

AbstractThe absolute dominant species that infests wild population of Przewalski’s horse (Equus przewalskii) is Gasterophilus pecorum, and feces of released Przewalski’s horse, a habitat odor, plays an important role in mating and ovipositing locations of G. pecorum. To screen out unique volatiles for attracting G. pecorum, volatiles from fresh feces of released horses at stages of pre-oviposition (PREO), oviposition (OVIP), and post-oviposition (POSO) of G. pecorum, and feces with three different freshness states (i.e., Fresh, Semi-fresh, and Dry) at OVIP were collected by dynamic headspace adsorption and determined by automatic thermal desorption GC–MS. Results show that there were significant differences in fecal volatiles within both test conditions. Of the five most abundant volatiles from the five individual samples, the most important volatile was ammonium acetate at OVIP/Fresh, followed by acetophenone (Semi-fresh), toluene (PREO, OVIP and POSO), butanoic acid (OVIP and Semi-fresh), acetic acid (PREO, POSO and Semi-fresh), 1,6-octadiene,3,7-dimethyl-,(S)- (PREO, OVIP and POSO), 1,5,9-undecatriene,2,6,10-trimethyl-,(Z)- (PREO and Semi-fresh) and caprolactam (all conditions), which seem to be critical substances in oviposition process of G. pecorum. The findings may be beneficial to development of G. pecorum attractants, facilitating prevention and control of infection by G. pecorum to released Przewalski’s horse.


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 1117-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daron A. Fincham ◽  
John Clive Ellory ◽  
James D. Young

In thoroughbred horses, red blood cell amino acid transport activity is Na+-independent and controlled by three codominant genetic alleles (h, l, s), coding for high-affinity system asc1 (L-alanine apparent Km for influx at 37 °C [Formula: see text] 0.35 mM), low-affinity system asc2 (L-alanine Km[Formula: see text] 14 mM), and transport deficiency, respectively. The present study investigated amino acid transport mechanisms in red cells from four wild species: Przewalski's horse (Equus przewalskii), Hartmann's zebra (Zebra hartmannae), Grevy's zebra (Zebra grevyi), and onager (Equus hemonius). Red blood cell samples from different Przewalski's horses exhibited uniformly high rates of L-alanine uptake, mediated by a high-affinity asc1-type transport system. Mean apparent Km and Vmax values (± SE) for L-alanine influx at 37 °C in red cells from 10 individual animals were 0.373 ± 0.068 mM and 2.27 ± 0.11 mmol (L cells∙h), respectively. As in thoroughbreds, the Przewalski's horse transporter interacted with dibasic as well as neutral amino acids. However, the Przewalski asc1 isoform transported L-lysine with a substantially (6.4-fold) higher apparent affinity than its thoroughbred counterpart (Km for influx 1.4 mM at 37 °C) and was also less prone to trans-stimulation effects. The novel high apparent affinity of the Przewalski's horse transporter for L-lysine provides additional key evidence of functional and possible structural similarities between asc and the classical Na+-dependent system ASC and between these systems and the Na+-independent dibasic amino acid transport system y+. Unlike Przewalski's horse, zebra red cells were polymorphic with respect to L-alanine transport activity, showing high-affinity or low-affinity saturable mechanisms of L-alanine uptake. Onager red cells transported this amino acid with intermediate affinity (apparent Km for influx 3.0 mM at 37 °C). Radiation inactivation analysis was used to estimate the target size of system asc in red cells from Przewalski's horse. The transporter's in situ apparent molecular weight was 158 000 ± 2500 (SE).Key words: amino acid transport, erythrocyte, Przewalski's horse.


2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Jiří Volf

Abstract This paper presents osteometric data on three missing specimens of the Przewalski’s horse (Equus przewalskii) from the collection of the National Museum in Prague (75. ♀ Praha 8 “Vlasta”, 120 ♂ Washington 1 “Horymír“, and 92. ♂ Praha 25 “Leo”). The specimens were examined and the measurements taken by the author in the 1960s and 1970s, before they got lost.


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