The story of the Takhi horse is not unique.

蒙古野马的故事并不独特。

Some small groups of Takhi survived in European zoos, but their extinction still seemed inevitable.

一些小群的蒙古野马在欧洲的动物园里幸存下来，但它们的灭绝似乎仍然是不可避免的。

To prevent this terrible fate, a coalition of scientists and zoos pulled together to start an international Takhi breeding program.

为了防止这种可怕的命运，一个由科学家和动物园组成的联盟开始了一个国际蒙古野马的繁殖计划。

This Takhi revival was a world-famous conservation victory, but the full story is much more complicated than it first appears.

这次蒙古野马复兴是举世闻名的保护胜利，但整个故事比表面看起来更为复杂。

So breeders felt it was up to them to determine what a wild Takhi should look like, and breed them accordingly.

因此，育种者认为由他们来决定野生蒙古野马应该是什么样子，并据此进行繁殖。

Sher Takhi smiled at Mortenson and led him to a prayer mat at the rear of the room.

Sher Takhi 对 Mortenson 微笑，领他走向房间后方的祈祷垫。

So in a strange way, it's hard to say if these animals are actually in the wild or even if they're truly Takhi.

所以以一种奇怪的角度，很难说这些动物是否真的存在于野外，甚至很难说它们是否真的是蒙古野马。

Sher Takhi raised his hands, palms up, over the rabak's head and requested Allah's permission to take its life.

Sher Takhi 举起双手，掌心向上，举过 rabak 的头，请求安拉允许他结束生命。

During his visits he had kept a respectful distance from the mosque, and Korphe's religious leader, Sher Takhi.

在访问期间，他与清真寺和科尔飞的宗教领袖 Sher Takhi 保持着尊重的距离。

They also knew that some of the horses in their collections weren't purebred Takhi, and many didn't even resemble the species' standard description.

他们还知道，他们收藏的一些马不是纯种的蒙古野马，许多甚至与该物种的标准描述不符。

Of course, in their native habitat, wild Takhi had regularly interbred with domesticated horses for millennia, producing a population with much more diverse appearances.

当然，在它们的原生栖息地，野生蒙古马与家养马匹有规律地杂交了数千年，产生了一个外观更加多样化的种群。

Sher Takhi had polio as a child, and he walked with a limp, so it must have been agony for him.

Sher Takhi 小时候患有小儿麻痹症，走路时一瘸一拐，这对他来说一定很痛苦。

So when it was time to introduce the Takhi to their ancestral home, they were quite different from the horses who'd been taken from those steppes a century earlier.

因此，当将蒙古野马被引入他们的祖先家园时，他们与一个世纪前从那些草原上带走的马截然不同。

Basing their work on just a few specimens and broad beliefs about what a primitive horse might look like, they created a rigorous model for the ideal Takhi.

他们的工作仅基于几个样本和对原始马可能长什么样子的广泛看法，他们为理想的蒙古野马创建了一个严格的模型。

Complicating things even further, while these new Takhi herds were no longer in zoos, to this day, almost all remain closely monitored and controlled for their own protection.

更复杂的是，虽然这些新的蒙古野马群不再在动物园里，但直到今天，几乎所有的蒙古野马群都受到密切监视和控制，以保护它们。

Sher Takhi, who called Korphe's widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.

谢尔·塔希 (Sher Takhi) 在没有扩音器的情况下，每天五次召集科尔飞广泛分散的信徒祈祷，他洪亮的声音充满了小房间。

Sher Takhi had come with them and he insisted on carrying the first load." " The holy men of the villages aren't supposed to degrade themselves with physical labor.

Sher Takhi 和他们一起来了，他坚持挑第一担。” “村里的圣人不应该因体力劳动而贬低自己。

Though the Takhi had long been known to local Mongolians, European scientists were intrigued by the remains, which looked more like those of a donkey or zebra than any known domestic horse.

尽管蒙古野马早已为当地蒙古人所熟知，但欧洲科学家对这些遗骸很感兴趣，它们看起来更像驴或斑马，而不是任何已知的家养马。

Gently, he turned the animal's head toward Mecca as Sher Takhi chanted the story of Allah asking Abraham to sacrifice his son, before allowing him to substitute a ram after he passed his test of loyalty.

当 Sher Takhi 吟唱安拉要求亚伯拉罕牺牲他的儿子的故事时，他轻轻地将动物的头转向麦加，然后在他通过忠诚度测试后允许他用一只公羊代替。