tarpan
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A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.
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Apart from this, there is also a fortnight-long duration each year called Pitru Paksha ("fortnight of ancestors"), when the family remembers all its ancestors and offers "Tarpan" to them.
A year thence, they observe the ritual of Tarpan, in which the family makes offerings to the deceased.
Przewalski's horse is one of three known subspecies of Equus ferus, the others being the domesticated horse Equus ferus caballus, and the extinct tarpan Equus ferus ferus.
Two of these were hybrids, one sired from a wild horse stallion and domestic mare and the other from a wild stallion and a tarpan mare.
The tarpan or European wild horse (Equus ferus ferus) was found in Europe and much of Asia.
Extinct subspecies * Tarpan Early prototypes main Before the availability of DNA techniques to resolve the questions related to the domestication of the horse, various hypotheses were proposed.