Onager: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the onager lives – recorded in 4 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Equus hemionus
Group	Wild horses, asses & tapirs
Status	Near threatened (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	4 countries
Continents	Asia, Europe
Class	Mammal
Order	Perissodactyla
Family	Equidae

Where does the onager live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the onager in 4 countries and territories across Asia and Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the onager endangered?

The onager’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Near threatened” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the onager?

The onager (Equus hemionus) is a mammal in the order Perissodactyla and the family Equidae, genus Equus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the onager

The onager (, ) (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 are accepted.

The onager is reddish-brown or yellowish-brown and has a broad dorsal stripe on the middle of the back. It weighs about 200–260 kg (440–570 lb) and reaches about 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) head-body length. It is among the fastest mammals, capable of running 64–70 km/h (40–43 mph).

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Onager (revision 1374987441), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q180960 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).