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SpeciesPerissodactylaEquidae
Mammals

🐎Kiang

Equus kiang Moorcroft, 1841

컁(Kiang, 학명: Equus kiang)은 티베트에 서식하는 야생 나귀로, 오나거와는 다른 종이다. 주로 고산지대에 분포하며 4아종이 존재한다.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
263 kg
Body length
2.38 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
39 years
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Everything we know about the Kiang

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
263 kg
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  • 275 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
2.38 m
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Maximum lifespan
39 years
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  • 30 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
10 years
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Age at maturity
3.0 years
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Gestation
304 days
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  • 299 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Population density
0.49 per km²
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Volume l
263 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kiang yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPerissodactyla
  5. ›familyEquidae
  6. ›genusEquus
  7. ›speciesEquus kiang
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
  3. familyEquidae
  4. genusEquus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
  12. familyEquidae
  13. genusEquus
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
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Kiang (de), Kiang (fr), 藏野驴 (zh), kiang (hu), kiang (ca), Kiang (cs) … and 24 more languages
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