Persian onager - Gur

 Salvete Omnes,

today a short entry on the Persian Onager aka Gur-khar

Onager - from Horse and its Relatives - by Richard Lydekker (1912).

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. two-wheeled vehicle (not a true Indo-European chariot of later 3rd millennium) from the Early Dynastic Period , Mesopotamia, Iraq: Tell-Agrab 2600-2370BC

donkey at the top, onager at the bottom

Great Salt Desert in the Kavir National Park with camels 

and doneys

& horses

Sassanian era Deir-e/Gayr-e Gachin Cararavansarai with mount Damavand in the background

Shahnameh- Bahram Gur hunting

by the way, quite a nice dog this Persian mastiff

all images are from Wiki Commons - thanks to all the photographers for their work and copyleft 

Valete