Historically recorded in the Gobi of southwestern Mongolia and northwestern China, this horse has a stocky body, a large head and an erect mane. Tail-hair analysis of reintroduced horses in Great Gobi B indicated a mainly grass-based diet throughout the year.
It has a stocky build, a large head, thick neck, and short legs. Its dun coat has a short, upright dark mane without a forelock, a dark dorsal stripe extending to the tail, a yellowish-white belly, dark lower legs, and stripes behind the knees.
A 2017 tail-hair stable-isotope study used the name Equus ferus przewalskii. Six reintroduced horses sampled in Great Gobi B in 2009 and 2010 were inferred to have grazed through the year. Of six wild-collected historical specimens from 1889–1898, five showed seasonal isotope patterns consistent with summer grazing and winter browsing.
A weather study published in 2022 observed three groups and 29 horses in summer 2018, then four groups and 34 horses in spring 2019 and four groups and 35 horses in autumn 2019 at Great Gobi B. Group histories included wild-born, long-term reintroduced, and recently reintroduced horses. Feeding increased in cloudy or windy conditions and was more frequent in autumn; locomotion and social behavior were more frequent in summer.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.