Editing Onager (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
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[[File:Asiatic Wild ass.jpg|left|thumb|An Indian wild ass in [[Little Rann of Kutch]], [[Gujarat]]]]
The onagers' favored habitats consist of desert plains, semideserts, [[oases]], [[arid]] grasslands, savannahs, [[shrubland]]s, steppes, mountainous steppes, and [[mountain range]]s. The Turkmenian kulan and Mongolian wild asses are known to live in hot and colder deserts. The IUCN estimates about 28,000 mature individuals in total remain in the wild.<ref name=iucn/>

During the late [[Pleistocene]] era around 40,000 years ago, the Asiatic wild ass ranged widely across Europe and in southwestern to northeastern Asia. It is also known from Middle Pleistocene fossils from the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia.<ref name="StimpsonEtAl2016">{{Cite journal |last=Stimpson |first=C. M. |last2=Lister |first2=A. |last3=Parton |first3=Ash |last4=Clark-Balzan |first4=Laine |last5=Breeze |first5=Paul S. |last6=Drake |first6=Nick A. |last7=Groucutt |first7=H. S. |last8=Jennings |first8=R. |last9=Scerri |first9=E. M.L. |last10=White |first10=T. S. |last11=Zahir |first11=M. |last12=Duval |first12=M. |last13=Grün |first13=R. |last14=Al-Omari |first14=A. |last15=Al Murayyi |first15=K. S. M. |date=2016 |title=Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology |journal=[[Quaternary Science Reviews]] |volume=143 |pages=13–36 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.016 |last16=Zalmout |first16=I. S. |last17=Mufarreh |first17=Y. A. |last18=Memesh |first18=A. M. |last19=Petraglia |first19=M. D.|hdl=10072/142575 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The onager has been regionally extinct in [[Israel]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], [[Jordan]], [[Syria]], and southern regions of [[Siberia]].

[[File:Onagers Negev Mountains 1.jpg|thumb|Onagers at Wadi Lotz, Negev Mountains, Israel]]
The [[Mongolian wild ass]] lives in deserts, mountains, and grasslands of Mongolia and [[Inner Mongolia]]n region of northern China. A few live in northern Xinjiang region of northwestern China, most of which live mainly in [[Kalamaili Nature Reserve]]. It is the most common subspecies, but its populations have drastically decreased to a few thousand due to years of poaching and habitat loss in [[East Asia]]. The [[Gobi Desert]] is the onager's main stronghold. It is regionally extinct in eastern Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, and the [[Manchuria]]n region of China.

The [[Indian wild ass]] was once found throughout the arid parts and desert steppes of northwest India and Pakistan, but about 4,500 of them are found in a few very hot wildlife sanctuaries of Gujarat. The [[Persian onager]] is found in two subpopulations in southern and northern Iran. The larger population is found at [[Khar Turan National Park]]. However, it is extirpated from Afghanistan. The [[Turkmenian kulan]] used to be widespread in central to north Asia. However, it is now found in Turkmenistan and has been reintroduced in southern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.