Tarpan

The tarpan Equus caballus gmelini is the original European wild horse. The last specimen of this species died in a Moscow zoo in 1875.

Polish farmers did often cross the tarpan with their domestic horses. The result was a small horse breed, the konik, animals have been selected that were as close as possible to the tarpan and are now used like the Heck Cattle to fill in the niche that was left vacant by the extinction of the tarpan.