Persian onager (Equus hemionus onager) English: Equus hemionus onager, Chay Bar Yotvata, Israel
עברית: חמור בר פרסי - פרא, חי בר יוטבתה
Date Sukkot 2008
Author MathKnight https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MathKnight
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pere-Parsi001.jpg
The Persian onager (Equus hemionus onager), also called the Persian wild ass or Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to Iran. The Persian onager is also simply named gur, meaning "swift" in the Persian language, in which the word gur has preserved as the second syllable for ono, which meant "donkey". Hence, onager.
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Species: Equus hemionus
Subspecies: Equus hemionus onager (Boddaert, 1785)
Synonyms: Equus onager Boddaert, 1785
