TAIPEI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's premier zoo aims to grab the spotlight this Lunar New Year with its efforts to protect an ...

Taipei Zoo welcomes the Lunar New Year this year through its efforts to protect an endangered species of horse native to central Asia that was once fully extinct outside of captivity. The festival ...

Mongolians live and work in close proximity to horses, potentially increasing the likelihood of human transmission - Simon Townsley/The Telegraph Horses are silent carriers of H5N1 bird flu, a new ...

As the sun began to sink over the grasslands of central Mongolia, a herd of stocky, dun-colored horses emerged from a rocky outcrop on a slope where they had been sheltering from the blazing heat of a ...

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists are committed to saving the last wild horse species: Przewalski’s horses, or takhi as they are known in Mongolian. The Smithsonian is ...

A new study has shown that horses have been infected with H5N1 – avian flu – in Asia and that infections have been occurring in horses undetected. The latest research, led by the MRC-University of ...