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Unmol

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Unmol
Country of originPakistan

The Unmol is a rare breed of horse from the north-western Punjab, in Pakistan.[1] In 1995, its conservation status was listed by the FAO as "critical" and the breed was described as "nearly extinct".[1]: 128  The subsequent (third) edition of the World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity, published in 2000, does not mention it;[2] it also was not among the breeds listed in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources in 2007.[3] Unmol horses are or were usually bay or grey.[1]: 128  There are, or were, a small number in India.[4]: 74 

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  1. ^ a b c Beate D. Scherf (ed.) (1995). World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity (2nd edition). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9251037299. Accessed June 2015.
  2. ^ Beate D. Scherf (ed.) (2000). World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity Archived 2009-11-13 at Archive-It (3rd edition). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9251045119. Accessed June 2015.
  3. ^ Rischkowsky, Barbara; Pilling, Dafydd, eds. (2007). "Annex: Breeds currently recorded in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources" (PDF). The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: FAO. ISBN 978-92-5-105762-9.
  4. ^ Harbans Singh (1966). Domestic animals. Series: India, the land and the people. New Delhi: National Book Trust, India.