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Wild stallions fight in England

KONIK HORSES FIGHTING AT WICKEN FEN CAMBRIDGESHIRE...It may look like the plains of America but incredibly this rare shot of two wild stallions sparring was snapped in the English countryside...The two konik horses were spotted fighting on the wetlands of Wicken Fen just 10 miles away from the city of Cambridge...The stallions reared up and boxed with their fore legs in a sight which has rarely been seen in Britain for 4,000 years when the last herds of wild horses roamed these fields...The koniks, which share many characteristics of the now-extinct Tarpan, the original wild horse of Europe's forests, are one of the largest animals ever to be introduced in to the UK...They have been imported to help manage the 325 acre nature reserve..."It is a pretty amazing sight to see two Stallions fighting like this in Britain and it gets the heart racing," said Carol Laidlow, conservation grazing warden at Wicken Fen...SEE COPY CATCHLINE Wild stallions fight in England

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KONIK HORSES FIGHTING AT WICKEN FEN CAMBRIDGESHIRE...It may look like the plains of America but incredibly this rare shot of two wild stallions sparring was snapped in the English countryside...The two konik horses were spotted fighting on the wetlands of Wicken Fen just 10 miles away from the city of Cambridge...The stallions reared up and boxed with their fore legs in a sight which has rarely been seen in Britain for 4,000 years when the last herds of wild horses roamed these fields...The koniks, which share many characteristics of the now-extinct Tarpan, the original wild horse of Europe's forests, are one of the largest animals ever to be introduced in to the UK...They have been imported to help manage the 325 acre nature reserve..."It is a pretty amazing sight to see two Stallions fighting like this in Britain and it gets the heart racing," said Carol Laidlow, conservation grazing warden at Wicken Fen...SEE COPY CATCHLINE Wild stallions fight in England