Featured Video: Batu the Przewalski's Horse is Having a Ball

Featured Video: Batu the Przewalski’s Horse is Having a Ball

We all probably had a favorite toy as children. Perhaps it was a doll or a truck or maybe Legos. For Batu, 3-month-old Przewalski’s horse living at the Denver Zoo, that favorite toy is a big, green ball.

Zoo staff knows (and we know) that that ball is great for Batu’s enrichment; it helps him with exercise, running, rearing and manipulating objects, as the YouTube description reminds us. But for Batu it’s all about having some fun with a ball.

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Besides being adorably playful, Batu is an important member of the equine world. Przewalski’s horses, a prehistoric-type equine native to Central Asia, were once completely extinct in the wild. However, through captive breeding in zoos around the world and careful reintroduction back into the wild, this unique and beautiful species is on the rebound. Read more about it here.

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Cari Jorgensen

Cari Jorgensen is a web content specialist who is also an adjunct professor of English at Santa Ana College.

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Marion says:
March 16, 2016 at 4:00 am
She is an adorable foal with a great personality! PLayful, and glad she loves her ball!
Sherry says:
March 19, 2016 at 3:58 am
So cute, loves playing with that ball. And the others don't even care about her or the ball rolling around!
Kathy says:
March 22, 2016 at 5:28 am
Oh she's so cute and adorable. Something how none of the others even want to go near the ball or play with it. It's like they know it's her baby toy!
Cynthia says:
March 22, 2016 at 11:11 am
Such a cute horse and it is really enjoyable watching her play with the big Green ball. Absolutely Adorable!
Sandy says:
March 25, 2016 at 3:55 am
Absolutely precious! Hope they make another as she gets older, so much personality!
Anne says:
April 4, 2016 at 6:17 am
She's so adorable and playful!
Patty says:
June 19, 2016 at 6:07 am
OMG, this is adorable. That ball is almost as big as the baby! She's precious!
Alicia says:
August 10, 2016 at 6:13 am
How adorable!
Marion says:
September 17, 2016 at 5:40 am
A Kodiak moment for sure. Did you see his little face when his ball went over the wall. Poor Baby!
Sandy says:
October 7, 2016 at 5:32 am
OMG he's adorable! Poor little guy was like, mom get my ball, it disappeared down there!

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