#0144 · 🦊 mammals
Wild Horse
🇳🇱 Wild Paard ·Equus ferus
📍 Оренбургская обл., Россия, 461336
📍 Иванковский район, Киевская область, Украина
📍 48150 Hures-la-Parade, France
📍 Khustai National Park
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jeff Kubina · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Denys Vyshnevskyi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Claire O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © pelagicgraf · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © CORDENOS Thierry · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Оренбургская обл., Россия, 461336:© Наталья Горб · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Иванковский район, Киевская область, Украина:© Denys Vyshnevskyi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 48150 Hures-la-Parade, France:© Sophie Mowles · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Khustai National Park:© Ryan McFarland · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The wild horse ( Equus ferus ) is a species of the genus Equus , which includes as subspecies the modern domesticated horse ( Equus ferus caballus ) as well as the undomesticated tarpan ( Equus ferus ferus , now extinct), and the endangered Przewalski's horse ( Equus ferus przewalskii ). Przewalski's horse had reached the brink of extinction but was reintroduced successfully back into the wild. The tarpan became extinct in the 19th century, though it is a possible ancestor of the domestic horse;...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,170 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1785 (241 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Wild Horse
- Nederlands
- Wild Paard
- scientific name
- Equus ferus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Equidae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 350
- sightings worldwide
- 1,170
- GBIF records in NL
- 4
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1785 by Pieter Boddaert
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Equidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62629, Wikidata Q27742, GBIF 4409270, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.