🐎Onager
The onager, 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.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 230 kg
- Body length
- 2.38 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 39 years
Everything we know about the Onager
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass230 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 230 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length2.38 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan39 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 32 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation346 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 339 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density3.19 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l230 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Onager yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPerissodactyla
- ›familyEquidae
- ›genusEquus
- ›speciesEquus hemionus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- genusEquus
- subgenusHemionus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderOdd-toed hoofed animals · Perissodactyla
- familyEquidae
- genusEquus
- subgenusHemionus
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