![Isles of the Tasman Sea – Part II: Norfolk Island](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbbf5363c8e8724072a6bc2/1685795173136-J9HGKAX6I9J8AKWPQW10/Untitled_Artwork.jpg)
Isles of the Tasman Sea – Part II: Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island offers an interesting juxtaposition to Lord Howe Island, as it contains a very similar faunal guild, but the extent and circumstances of its extinctions are somewhat different.
![The European Wild Horse](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbbf5363c8e8724072a6bc2/1615314506186-ZK26ILJD54QKBEBEGDO9/Tarpan.jpg)
The European Wild Horse
The horse is one of man’s most important domestic animals. Just like cattle, horses descended from a once widespread wildtype that is now extinct because of human influence. The western subspecies of the wild horse, Equus ferus ferus, had a range from the Iberian peninsular to the western Eurasian steppe, where the horse was most likely domesticated. Although the domestic horse is well-known to us, the wild form is kind of elusive – it is not certain when it died out, how common it was, what it looked like, and there is not even a consensus on how to name this animal.