{"id":8782,"date":"2025-02-08T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:14:45","slug":"tanzanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/tanzanian","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Horses are not native to Tanzania and there are probably a variety of reasons for this. Lack of suitable horse grazing land, and top level predators probably top the list. Domestic horse likely doesn&#8217;t have the instinct required to shake a hungry lion.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>While not necessarily native, horses obviously exist in the country, mostly used for pleasure riding. There don&#8217;t appear to be any centralized breeding in the country, in the DAD-IS their one horse breed is listed simply as &#8216;horse&#8217; (they provide little info). Presumably they join the ranks of country bred types that can be found in many countries with few equestrian traditions. Bred for ceremonial use and riding or whatever else breeders may use them for. <\/p>\n<p>A few of the examples we found in Tanzania look to have <a href=\"\/breeds\/barb\">Barb<\/a> influence (that is purely speculation), plus there looks like Arabian and even appaloosa animals on the beach. They all look like handsome, healthy animals. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Conformation varies considerably based on imported animal types<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Solid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Brave and calm <\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<br \/>\nTransportation<br \/>\nLight agriculture<br \/>\nTourism<br \/>\nCultural and religious ceremonies<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tanzanian-horse-2.webp\" alt=\"Tanzanian Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tanzanian-horse-3.webp\" alt=\"Tanzanian Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3WXDncDF34?si=rt4U_oOloJ0QIVji\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0nIY8gs_QA?si=voeHkiP9-SI20hJK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Horses are not native to Tanzania and there are probably a variety of reasons for this. Lack of suitable horse grazing land, and top level predators probably top the list. Domestic horse likely doesn&#8217;t have the instinct required to shake a hungry lion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanzania","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8786,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}