Equus hemionus - #3724

Onager
Equus hemionus khur. Also as Asian Wild Ass. Also as Equus khur, Indian Wild Ass.
Geographic Distribution

Formerly much of Mongolia, north to Transbaikalia (Russia); east to NE Inner Mongolia (China) and possibly W Manchuria (China); and west to Dzhungarian Gate. Survives in SW and SC Mongolia and adjacent China; see Sokolov and Orlov (1980:248). Also formerly Kazakhstan north to upper Irtysh and Ural Rivers (Russia); westward north of the Caucasus and Black Sea at least to Dniestr River (Ukraine); Anatolia, Syria, and SE of Caspian Sea in N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to Thar Desert of NW India; survives as isolated populations in Rann of Kutch (India), Badkhys Preserve, Turkmenistan, and C Iran; also reestablished on Barsa-Khelmes Isl (Aral Sea, Uzbekistan); until 17th-18th centuries in Armenia and Azerbaidjan.

Order/Family
Equidae
Genus
Equus
Specific Epithet
hemionus
Image Location
India, Gujarat, Little Rann of Kutch
Image Date
26 January 2012
Photographer
V Cavale