Wild Horses Around the World

Free-roaming horse herds from the Mongolian steppe to the Outer Banks, photographed where they live. Each photo shows the horses themselves on their home range, and each caption names the herd, where it roams and how it came to be there. Only one kind of horse here is truly wild: Przewalski's horse, which opens the gallery. Almost every other herd is feral, descended from domestic horses that escaped, were turned loose or were left behind, and several are owned or managed by people who round them up once a year. The captions say which is which, because it changes what you will see and how close you can get. Show horses and stabled breeds are left out. After Przewalski's horses, the gallery runs by region: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, then Australia and New Zealand.