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The onager (/ ˈ ɒ n ə dʒ ər /) (Equus hemionus), also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass, is a species of the family Equidae native to Asia. A member of the subgenus Asinus, the onager was described and given its binomial name by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. Six subspecies have been recognized, two of which are extinct.
The Turkmenian kulan (Equus hemionus kulan), also called Transcaspian wild ass, [3] Turkmenistani onager or simply the kulan, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to Central Asia. It was declared Endangered in 2016. [1] The species's population had recently been in decline in the country while it slowly increases in ...
The Indian wild ass (Equus hemionus khur), also called the Indian wild donkey, Indian onager or, in the local Gujarati language, Ghudkhur and Khur, is a subspecies of the onager native to South Asia. It is currently listed as Near Threatened by IUCN . [ 3 ]
The Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus), less commonly known as a hemippe, [2] an achdari, [3] [4] or a Mesopotamian or Syrian onager, [5] is an extinct subspecies of onager native to the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding areas. It ranged across present-day Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey.
Equus (/ ˈ ɛ k w ə s, ˈ iː k w ə s /) [3] is a genus of mammals in the family Equidae, which includes horses, asses, and zebras.Within the Equidae, Equus is the only recognized extant genus, comprising seven living species.
A Persian onager in the Yotvata Hai-Bar Nature Reserve, Israel. Asiatic wild asses are legally highly protected; hunting them is forbidden. The European Endangered Species Programme reserved for European Association of Zoos and Aquaria is helping save the Persian onager from extinction, by breeding them in captivity and reintroducing them to their former ranges, including in new locations once ...
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This, however, was primarily the onager or ass, and at no time prior to the second millennium BC can we regard Southwest Asia as practising the horse- and chariot-centred warfare that one finds among the Indo-Aryans. The earliest evidence for the horse in Western Asia is presently limited to Tal-i Iblis in south-central Iran (3500 BC) and ...