Rare Onagers Make Their Debut at Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo

"I am very passionate about this fascinating wild ass. For more than ten years, I was the studbook coordinator for this species and, in the course of that, also on site in the harsh habitat in today's Iran. The onagers are threatened with extinction. Their original occurrence is now limited to a protected area in southern Iran. Above all, competition with agricultural livestock for the sparsely available water has increasingly decimated the wild population," said Zoo Director Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck on Thursday in a press release. In 2023, not even 720 adult onagers were recorded in the wild.

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