[News Script: Horses] Part: 1 of 4
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HORSES
,ainy days haven't changed much over the past 15,00O years,
but horses HAVE. To get a first-hand look at these changes,
you need travel only as far as Forest Park Zoo in Ft Worth,
where rain-coated workmen uncrated a Tarpan this morning.
The Tarpan is the result of 30 years of unorthodox breeding
experiments, and zoo director Lawrence Curtis says today's
arrival, a female, is one of only eNTarpans in existence.
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The animal was shipped to Ft Worth from Munich, Germany,
T arpan
and another a male, is waiting at the zoo to say
hello. The male came to Forest Park from the Brookhaven
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Zoo in Chicago. Heinz Heck, director of the Munich Zoo, is
responsible for reversing evolution back to the extinct
Tarpan. After studying skeletons, cave paintings, and
drawings of the sturdy pre-historic horse, M he began
cross-breeding wild horses from Asia with tame ones fromIceland, and, after five generations, succeeded in repro-
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ducing an animal resembling a Tarpan. Heck has placed six
of his animals in zoos, and has a dozen others roaming
around his own pasture. Fierce and hardy, the original1:20
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Horses], item, December 14, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976911/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.