The Wild Ass - Wild Ass or Onager ( Equus hemionus khur) - Wild Ass Images Stock Photos & Vectors

The Wild Ass - Wild Ass or Onager ( Equus hemionus khur) - Wild Ass Images Stock Photos & Vectors

Description: 

Onagers are the most horse-like of wild asses. They are short-legged compared to horses, and their coloring varies depending on the season. They are generally reddish-brown in color during the summer, becoming yellowish-brown or grayish-brown in the winter. They have a black stripe bordered in white that extends down the middle of the back. The belly, the rump, and the muzzle are white in most onagers, except for the Mongolian wild ass that has a broad black dorsal stripe bordered with white.

Habitat:

              Hot desert, semi-desert, areas with poor vegetation cover.

Distribution:

 Nagar parker bordering areas, mud flatlands of Runn of Katch.

Equus hemionus khur – Indian Wild Ass or Onager

In the last century, the Indian wild ass lived all over the dry regions of northwestern India and western Pakistan including Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Sind and Baluchistan. Today, it survives only in the Little Rann, and a few stray towards the Great Rann of Kutch with some reaching bordering villages in the Jalore district of the Indian State of Rajasthan

Tags: Ass, siberian donkey,

onager,

equus africanus africanus,

indian wild buffalo,

kiang,

bajana wildlife sanctuary,