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Also Known As	wild ass

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A brown donkey (Equus asinus) with a white muzzle and belly walks on a grassy, sloped hillside with shrubs in the background.

An Asian wild ass, or onager (Equus hemionus), stands closely with its foal on grassy steppe in the Askania-Nova reserve, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.

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