<b>Altamiro</b> (<i>Ultrajado x Pompeia</i>) is a <b>purebred Sorraia stallion</b>.  His sire <i>(bred by José Luis Vasconcellos e Sousa d'Andrade)</i> and dam <i>(bred by Maria Emilia d'Andrade Oliveira e Sousa)</i> were exported from Portugal to Germany.  Altamiro was born in 2005 at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wisentgehege-springe.de/">Wisentgehege zoological park</a> in Springe (Hanover), and was imported to Canada in 2006 to become part of a transcontinental conservation effort to save this endangered wild-type of primitive horse.  At the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ravenseyrie.blogspot.ca/">Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang Preserve</a> on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manitoulin_Island&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Manitoulin Island (page does not exist)">Manitoulin Island</a> (Ontario), Altamiro lives a virtually autonomous life with his harem of specially selected mustang mares of Sorraia type, successfully creating offspring that provide an essential genetic outcross-vigor to the highly inbred European Sorraia population (of which less than 200 specimens remain).  This photo taken in May of 2008 shortly after his third birthday.
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