The most horse-like of the ass species, the Asiatic wild ass is now classified as an endangered species.
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The ancestors of these animals go back more than 40,000 years and during the late Pleistocene era their range extended as far west as Germany. Currently they are found in vastly reduced territories.<\/p>\n
There are five recognized subspecies of this ass. <\/strong> The Mongolian Wild Ass is the most abundant of the sub-species and accounts for almost 80% of the species entire population. The rest of the sub-species have numbers in the triple digits and are facing extinction.<\/p>\n Average height 11 – 11.8 hands<\/p>\n Large head with slender mouth Dun<\/a>, often with a mealy gene<\/a><\/p>\n These are wild animals<\/p>\n *All links open in a new window<\/small> Intro The most horse-like of the ass species, the Asiatic wild ass is now classified as an endangered species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unknown","tag-dun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.<\/strong> Mongolian Wild Ass or Equus hemionus hemionus<\/em>
\n2.<\/strong> Indian Wild Ass or Equus hemionus khur<\/em>
\n3.<\/strong> Turkmen kulan or Equus hemionus kulan<\/em>
\n4.<\/strong> Onager or Equus hemionus onager <\/em>
\n5.<\/strong> Syrian Wild Ass or Equus hemionus hemippus<\/em><\/p>\nFeatures<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nEars are long and pointed
\nLimbs are powerful
\nHooves are small and strong<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Helpful Links<\/h3>\n
\nArkive<\/a>
\nChina Culture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"