Tarpan

Tarpan
ターパン
Character Data
AKA		Eurasian wild horse
Romaji		Tāpan
Debut		Kemono Friends (2015 Game)
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Equus ferus ferus
Distribution		?
Diet		Herbivore
Avg. Lifespan		?
Read More		Tarpan
Conservation

Tarpan

KF3

Nexon Game

Tarpan is a type of Friend that first appeared in the original Kemono Friends mobile game.

Appearance

Tarpan's old design has silver-grey horse ears, silver-grey hair, and a grey french beret. She has blue eyes without white highlights signifying her extinct status. She has a light grey sweater over a black collared shirt. She wears a blue skirt, a black horse-like tail, light grey leggings that fade to dark grey at the bottom, and black shoes.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role
2015	Nexon Game	↪ Minor character, playable
2019	Kemono Friends 3	↪ Minor character, playable

In Real Life

Tarpan, 18 years old at the Moscow Zoo, 1884.

Looking at photos of tarpan, they were approximately 1 meter tall, 2 meters long, and weighed around 450 kilograms. It can also be noted that these animals had a shaggy, scruffy looking coat. The coloration ranges from dun to brown with a black dorsal stripe, and a black mane and tail. Black-and-white stripes were known to sometimes occur on the legs and very rarely on the body. The winter coat was known to turn white in very cold climates.

The tarpan was believed to have lived in plains of Eurasia. Their range spanned from Southern France and Spain eastward to central Russia. Cave drawings of tarpan have been found in France and Spain, and artifacts showing this breed can be found in Southern Russia where this horse was domesticated by Scythian nomads in about 3000 B.C.

Their diet was like any other equine, grass.

Rumours say that tarpan would often kick and bite people who handled them, or refused to move when being led along a path. In other words, even while domesticated, they still retained quite a bit of their wild spirit.

Trivia

• The name "tarpan" or "tarpani" is from a Turkic language (Kazakh or Kyrgyz) name meaning "wild horse". The Tatars and the Cossacks distinguished the wild horse from the feral horse; the latter was called Takja or Muzin. In modern use, the term has been loosely used to refer to the predomesticated ancestor of the modern horse, though researchers discourage this use of the word, which they believe should only apply to the ancient Equus ferus ferus.

• There is some debate as to whether the modern Tarpan is extinct, preserved, or restored. Some say the horse exists in its pure form on preserves in Poland; others say the last Tarpan died in captivity between 1887 and 1919, and that those on the preserves are a mix of pureblooded Tarpan and local wild Polish peasant ponies.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpan
• http://afs.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/tarpan//#content
• https://www.newdinosaurs.com/tarpan/
• https://www.thoughtco.com/tarpan-profile-1093153
• http://cowboyfrank.net/fortvalley/breeds/Tarpan.htm