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a wild Asian donkey too fast to tame and too stubborn to apologize.
means A wild ass native to the deserts and steppes of central and western Asia, prized for its speed and famously resistant to domestication.
from From Latin onager, borrowed from Greek onagros, a squashing-together of onos (donkey) and agrios (wild) — literally 'wild donkey.' The same name was later lent to a Roman siege catapult, perhaps for the kicking jolt it gave when it loosed its stone, like a mule lashing out with its hind legs.
- top speed
- sprints up to 70 km per hour
- the catapult
- Romans named a siege engine after its kick
- never domesticated
- thousands of years untamed and unbothered
- desert survivor
- endures heat that kills most equids
- endangered
- some subspecies down to a few hundred
persian onager — wild equine subspecies native to iran, critically endangered with ~600 individuals remaining
syrian onager — extinct subspecies last seen in syria and iraq before 1927
indian wild ass — onager subspecies in the rann of kutch, india, population ~4,000