His future looked grim until Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas who’d recently lost her newborn, accepted him as her own.

They want him to join the zoo's adult Przewalski’s herd before he's too old. “He is definitely a wild horse," Rivas said. "One, he is a stallion, so he’s already got a big personality from that.

They want him to join the zoo's adult Przewalski’s herd before he's too old. “He is definitely a wild horse," Rivas said. "One, he is a stallion, so he’s already got a big personality from that.

Przewalski’s horses are the only truly wild horse species remaining, declared extinct in the wild in the 1960s before being re-established in Mongolia, China, and parts of Russia and Ukraine.