tartan
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Everybody might agree that they’re not tarpans, but that’s about where the agreement ends.
From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2014
Surprisingly like tarpans in skull and build, the mares were bred to Przewalski stallions.
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He created the ersatz tarpans by reversing the process of evolution.
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Fine-boned and broad-skulled, with mouse-grey coats and zebra-striped legs, they look for all the world like tarpans, the fierce wild horses that Roman legionnaires found in Spain.
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With respect to the tarpans scraping away the snow see Col.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
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