Horse
The horse adapted to survive in areas of wide-open terrain with sparse vegetation, surviving in an ecosystem where other large grazing animals, especially ruminants, could not. Horses and other equids are odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a group of mammals that was dominant during the Tertiary period. In the past, this order contained 14 families, but only three—Equidae (the horse and related species), Tapiridae (the tapir), and Rhinocerotidae (the rhinoceroses)—have survived to the present day.
List of mammals of Montana
Order: Chiroptera
Family: VespertilionidaeThe wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus "Equus", which includes as subspecies both the domesticated horse as well as the undomesticated Tarpan and Przewalski's Horse. The term "wild horse" is also used colloquially to refer to free roaming herds of feral horses such as the Mustang in the United States, the Brumby in Australia, and many others. These feral horses are untamed members of the domestic horse subspecies ("Equus ferus caballus"), and should not be confused with the two truly "wild" horse subspecies.