The thin ranks of the endangered Persian onager were joined Sept. 7 by a newborn foal. The unnamed female, appearing strong and healthy, is the first Persian onager to be bred at the Smithsonian ...

The Roman empire's onager catapult used torsion—twisting an object, in this case a restraining rope or spring, by applying torque—to build tension in the arm and generate a powerful swing. The onager ...

Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve proudly announces the reintroduction of the Persian onager to Saudi Arabia, marking the species’s return to the Kingdom after more than a century of absence.

My travels take me to some very exotic places where I encounter some very exotic animals, but this week I discovered one of the rarest creatures in the world living in my own backyard. The Persian ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Persian onager, also called the Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to Iran. It is listed as Endangered with no more than 600 individuals left in ...

Genetic diversity is a primary component of adaptive evolution, and its loss or reduction can decrease the long-term survival probability of populations. Utilization of cryopreserved semen may be ...

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The onager is a wild ass that is native to Asia. It is also known as the Asiatic wild ass, Persian wild ass, and Persian zebra ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay focuses on the presentation of Ishmael as an Onager man' in Gen 16:12α and shows that conventional readings of Ishmael's profile ...