Yonaguni horse

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Yonaguni

On Yonaguni Island

Conservation status FAO (2007): critical

Country of origin Japan

Distribution Yonaguni Island

Traits

Male:
Height

average 120 cm[1]

Female:

average 116 cm[1]

 Equus ferus caballus

The Yonaguni or Yonaguni uma (与那国馬) is a critically-endangered

Japanese breed of small horse. It is native to Yonaguni Island, in the Yaeyama
Islands in south-western Japan, close to Taiwan. It is one of eight horse breeds
native to Japan.
History[edit]
In 1968 there were 210 Yonaguni horses. By the early 1980s, the number had
fallen to little more than fifty. Numbers subsequently recovered slightly; [2]:94 85 head
were recorded in 2008.[1] The conservation status of the breed was listed as
"critical" by the FAO in 2007.[3]:71
In 2003, genetic analysis using microsatellite data found the Yonaguni to be
most closely related to the Miyako and Tokara small-island breeds, and less
closely related to various Mongolian horse breeds than were
the Dosanko and Kiso breeds of the main islands of Japan.[4]:378

Characteristics[edit]
Like the other Japanese island breeds, the Yonaguni is small. Average height at
the withers is 116–120 cm (11.2–11.3 h).[1]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Breed data sheet: Yonaguni/Japan . Domestic
Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2017.
2. ^ [Editorial Committee Office of the Japanese Country Report,
Animal Genetic Resources Laboratory, National Institute of
Agrobiological Sciences, Japan] ([n.d.]). Country Report (For
FAO State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources Process);
annex to: Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (editors) (2007). The
State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed June 2017.
3. ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds
documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic
Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed June 2017.
4. ^ T. Tozaki, N. Takezaki, T. Hasegawa, N. Ishida, M. Kurosawa,
M. Tomita, N. Saitou, H. Mukoyama (2003). Microsatellite
Variation in Japanese and Asian Horses and Their Phylogenetic
Relationship Using a European Horse Outgroup. Journal of
Heredity 94 (5): 374–
380. doi:10.1093/jhered/esg079. (subscription required).

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