Wild ass foals
Land of the Tiger
Indian wild asses mate on India's salt flats.
Somali Wild Ass
Somali Wild Asses
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Somali wild ass, up close
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Somali wild asses Equus africanus somalicus are the smallest equids and are native to the rocky deserts of eastern Africa. Like the onagers and kulans, the Somali wild ass has to deal with extremely high temperatures.
Somali Wild Ass (Equus asinus somalicus)
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Wild asses are territorial in their mating habits; the stallion attempts to keep other stallions away from mares within its territory. (Klingel 1990)
Males attempt to control access to a critical resource - water - in order to have access to females.
African Wild Ass (Equus asinus)
The African Wild Ass
The African Wild Ass (Equus asinus) is the direct ancestor of our domestic donkey and is the rarest mammal on the planet.
Persian Wild Ass
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Onager - it formerly ranged widely across S Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan. A small, slenderly built animal, it stands about 4 ft (120 cm) high at the shoulder.
African wild ass
Taxonomy Equus asinus [Linnaeus, 1758]. Citation: Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:73. Type locality: "Habitat in oriente" (= Middle East?).
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The African wild ass was probably once widespread from the Moroccan Atlas across Saharan and possibly Sahelian Africa to the Sudanese and Somalian arid zones and possibly the Arabian Peninsula.
The African wild ass is the wild ancestor of the domestic ass, which is commonly known as donkey or burro. The ass has been domesticated for 6 000 years. The two can still interbreed and are considered to be the same species.
There are altogether five subspecies of the Asian Wild Ass. All of them can be found in Central Asia. There it inhabits deserts and steppes. It has got bright brown colour with white belly and black stripe on the back. It is approximately 2.
African wild ass (Equus africanus)
The African wild ass is the ancestor of the domestic donkey, and has a similar stocky body shape. The short, smooth coat is a light grey to... More 6 Images 3 Videos ...
Wild Ass (African Wild Ass)
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Wild Asses Pushed Toward Extinction
Asiatic wild asses are hemmed in by mountains, fences and train tracks.
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African wild ass: We are not sure whether or not there are any truly wild asses left in Africa. They were originally widespread in northern Africa but may now be extinct.
African Wild Ass Equus africanus
Onager or Asiatic Ass, Equus hemionus
Kiang or Tibetan Wild Ass, Equus kiang
Plains Zebra, Equus quagga
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The true wild ass is found only in northern Africa. They have been domesticated for centuries, and it is generally accepted that asses, or donkeys, were domesticated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Zebras, horses and wild asses are all equids, long-lived animals that move quickly for their large size and have teeth built for grinding and cropping grass.
Grevy's zebras inhabit semi-arid grasslands, filling a niche distinct from that of other members of the genus Equus that live within the same geographical range, such as wild asses (which prefer arid habitats) and plains zebras (which are more ...
Equus africanus, the wild ass of north-eastern Africa
E. zebra, the mountain zebra of south-western Africa
E. grevyi, Grevy's zebra from north-eastern Africa
E. mauritanicus, the extinct North African zebra of the Sahel
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The Donkey is a domesticated version of the wild ass.
An article in Science (vol 304, p 1781) analysed donkey DNA and showed that there were 2 distinct populations of domestic donkey: one descended from the Nubian wild ass Equus asinus africanus and ...
True wild asses are still found in Africa and in Asia but some are thought to be nearly extinct. Wild asses are gregarious, swift, and long lived; they are found in mountainous and desert regions and feed on rough and dry forage .
I did not choose any species that is heavily domesticated - no camels, no wild ass or horse - nor did I include species whose population now consists almost entirely of re-introduced animals (e.g., White Rhinoceros, American Bison).
Donkeys were supposedly domesticated around 5000 years ago in the north east of Africa from the Somali wild ass.
Some of them are the African Wild Ass (Equus africanus) and its subspecies Somalian Wild Ass (Equus africanus somaliensis). The Onager, Equus hemionus, and its relative the Kiang, Equus kiang, are closely related wild species.
Originally from Africa (where they were called the Wild Ass) these pack animals were prized for their hardiness in arid country.
They continue to fill important roles in many places today and domesticated species are increasing in numbers (although the African wild ass and another relative, the Onager are endangered species).
tail, a solid hoof on each foot, thickened skin (called chestnuts) on the inside of the front legs above the knee, and mobile lips and nostrils." Horses also possess great endurance and speed. The fastest equidae is the onager, an Asian wild ass that ...
 See also: Ass, Donkey, Zebra, Wild Horse, Hippo
  
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