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Why do domestic horses and some donkey breeds have floppy manes, while seemingly every wild equid has or had an upright mane (e.g. Przewalski's horse, all the wild asses, zebras and the extinct horses in prehistoric cave art)?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/askscience

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