Equidae Gallery

Nathan Natty, 1st Baron Rothschild

Liberal politician, banker, philanthropist and father of Walter Rothschild, he built what became the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum and later the Natural History Museum at Tring for his son on the family grounds in Tring Park

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Equus caballus gomelini, tarpan

The Tarpan a wild horse, native of Russia, primaeval bay stock. Plate on page opposite page 160. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia, Vol. 31, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine

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Equus quagga, quagga

One of the last remaining quagga in captivity at London Zoo. Relative of the horse and zebra which lived in the African plains, was hunted to extinction during the end of the 19th century

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