Saving the Last Truly Wild Horse

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Przewalski’s horses are truly wild horses, even the ones held in captivity. They traditionally roamed the Central Asian steppes, so you can imagine everyone’s surprise when two separate accounts on TikTok claimed to have found a Przewalski’s horse here in the U.S. But as guest and Scientific American associate news editor Allison Parshall will tell you, the real story is the remarkable conservation efforts that led to a resurgence for this horse, which was once considered extinct in the wild. The Last Wild Horses Are Finally Returning to Their Natural Habitat How a Cloned Ferret Inspired a DNA Bank for Endangered Species Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest and associate news editor Allison Parshall. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, this is Bellamy Young.
0:03.0	Since I first shared that as a teenager, my dad had overt hepatic encephalopathy, a disease caused by cirrhosis.
0:09.0	The response has been overwhelming.
0:11.0	The most common comment I hear is I wish I knew a
0:14.4	sentiment that echoes my family's experience. Even after my dad's O.H.E. diagnosis
0:20.4	we didn't know what to expect or that O.H.E. can be a progressive and
0:24.8	persistent disease. But today we know more and we have more options for O.H.
0:30.3	than we did when my father was sick. That's why I am partnering with Seelix Pharmaceuticals
0:35.0	to help encourage people who are affected by O.H.
0:38.0	To not wait for symptoms to progress or become unmanageable.
0:42.0	We want people impacted by O.H.E.
0:44.2	Patients, caregivers, medical professionals,
0:46.8	to have the information to make informed decisions about managing the
0:51.0	disease. Visit my Instagram to learn more. Wild horses are pretty rare outside of classic rock songs. Some of the most famous ones like those on Assatee Island aren't actually wild at all.
1:15.0	They're the feral descendants of domesticated horses.
1:19.0	But the animal shown in a few recent viral tic-tocks may be another matter entirely, a horse of a different color, if you
1:27.0	will, or more accurately, a horse of a different species.
1:31.8	For Scientific American science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
1:34.8	Associate News Editor and Friend of the Pod Allison Partial is here today to tell us
1:40.1	more about these majestic beasts. Before we get into it, I have one very important question to start us off, which is,
1:52.4	how do you say the name of? important question to start us off, which is,
1:52.6	how do you say the name of this horse?
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