{"id":110,"date":"2020-02-16T04:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T04:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=110"},"modified":"2024-03-24T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T23:45:01","slug":"meet-the-yakutian-horse-who-can-live-at-94-degrees-below-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-yakutian-horse-who-can-live-at-94-degrees-below-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Yakutian Horse, Who Can Live at 94 Degrees Below Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horses Who Never Freeze<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Far-East Siberia is the land where the woolly mammoth once roamed. The winter landscape is starkly beautiful \u2014 and fatal. Temperatures can plummet to -94 degrees Fahrenheit (-70 Celsius).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"901\" height=\"675\" data-attachment-id=\"111\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-yakutian-horse-who-can-live-at-94-degrees-below-zero\/yakutian-horse-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01.png\" data-orig-size=\"901,675\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Yakutian-Horse-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01.png 901w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Yakutian-Horse-01-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yakutian horse is a native to this Siberian Sakha Republic (or Yakutia) region. This rare and special horse has developed to survive in this extreme climate and has the ability to locate and graze on vegetation that is under deep snow cover. However, its special adaptations go beyond locating food and include unique&nbsp;hormonal responses involved in the regulation of thermogenic requirement and the production of anti-freezing compounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"113\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-yakutian-horse-who-can-live-at-94-degrees-below-zero\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-1024x576.jpg\" data-id=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-5f967f8a15e9f925b91ccf30.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" data-attachment-id=\"112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-yakutian-horse-who-can-live-at-94-degrees-below-zero\/russiatherepublicofyakutiayakuthorsessurviveinthe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1367\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Shutterstock&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (c) 2018 Mikhail Cheremkin\/Shutterstock.  No use without permission.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Russia,,The,Republic,Of,Yakutia,,Yakut,Horses,Survive,In,The&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Russia,,The,Republic,Of,Yakutia,,Yakut,Horses,Survive,In,The\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-1024x684.jpg\" data-id=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-shutterstock_1072576853.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A study, conducted&nbsp;by an international team of researchers led by Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, found that these traits took only 800 years to develop. From an evolutionary standpoint, that\u2019s overnight, and it is one of the fastest examples of adaptation within mammals. The adaptive process involved changes in the expression of a variety of genes, including some also selected in human Siberian groups and even the extinct woolly mammoth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yakutian Horses Who Never Freeze in Siberia Russia. \u042f\u043a\u0443\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u043b\u043e\u0448\u0430\u0434\u0438 \u0432 \u042f\u043a\u0443\u0442\u0438\u0438\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SoTe-SyCkuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See more about these amazing horses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230528083440\/http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-70c-siberia-tale-yakutian-horses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adapting to -70C in Siberia: A Tale of Yakutian Horses<\/a><br><em>Phys.org<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230528083440\/http:\/\/siberiantimes.com\/ecology\/others\/features\/the-foal-who-came-into-the-cold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Foal That Came Into the Cold<\/a><br><em>The Siberian Times<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230528083440\/http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/586283\/one-scientists-hobby-recreating-the-ice-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Scientist\u2019s Hobby: Recreating the Ice Age<\/a><br><em>Dawn<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horses Who Never Freeze Far-East Siberia is the land where the woolly mammoth once roamed. The winter landscape is starkly beautiful \u2014 and fatal. Temperatures can plummet to -94 degrees&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[26,49,38],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-tales","category-animal-videos","tag-animal-facts","tag-asian-animals","tag-horses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/yukatan-horse-frost-layer-covers-yakutian-horses-as-temperature-dropped-news-photo-1706822656.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}