Horses in the Tien Shan (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Horses in the Tien Shan

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Horses eating wild apples in the Tien Shan Mountains. These domesticated horses demonstrate the process of seed dispersal that wild apple trees evolved to support millions of years ago, when large monogastric mammals such as these were prominent across Eurasia.

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Artur Stroscherer

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