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Definition av ONAGER

1. (däggdjur) onager

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• A member of the subgenus Asinus, the onager was described and given its binomial name by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775.
• The onager is often confused with the later mangonel, a "traction trebuchet" that replaced torsion powered siege engines in the 6th century AD.
• Torsion springs consisting of twisted ropes or sinew, were used to store potential energy to power several types of ancient weapons; including the Greek ballista and the Roman scorpio and catapults like the onager.
• These include the Przewalski's horse, onager, kiang, African wild ass, an extinct subspecies of plains zebra, the quagga, and an extinct subspecies of horse, the tarpan.
•  (Asinus), including the kulan, onager, and kiang), followed by the African zebras (subgenera E.
• Small rodents are common, as are their predators such as snakes, scorpions and camel spiders; previously common were gazelle, wolf, jackal, fox, cat and caracal, also ostrich, cheetah, hartebeest and onager.
• Among the sources of food hunted and foraged by the Dnieper-Donets people were aurochs, elk, red deer, roe, wild boar, fox, wildcat, hare, bear and onager.
• Khulan, a Mongolian word for a subspecies of the onager called the Mongolian wild ass, Equus hemionus hemionus,.
• Big mammals of the Eurasian steppe were the Przewalski's horse, the saiga antelope, the Mongolian gazelle, the goitered gazelle, the wild Bactrian camel and the onager.
• The Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus), less commonly known as a hemippe, an achdari, or a Mesopotamian or Syrian onager, is an extinct subspecies of onager native to the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding areas.
• The Indian wild ass (Equus hemionus khur), also called the Indian onager or, in the local Gujarati language, Ghudkhur and Khur, is a subspecies of the onager native to South Asia.
• Two versions are known: a horizontal two-armed variety like a ballista and a one-armed, vertical version otherwise referred to as an onager.
• Wild equids like the Przewalski's horse, onager, African wild ass, kiang as well as the domestic donkey exhibit pangaré as a rule.
• Mangonel was used as a general medieval catch-all for stone throwing artillery, which probably meant a traction trebuchet from the 6th to 12th centuries, between the disappearance of the onager and the arrival of the counterweight trebuchet.
• It was established for the breeding and settling of kulans, Equus hemionus kulan, a subspecies of onager, the Asian wild ass.
• The Turkmenian kulan (Equus hemionus kulan), also called Transcaspian wild ass, Turkmenistani onager or simply the , is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to Central Asia.
• Thus, in the 4th century CE catapulta indicates a one-armed stone-throwing engine, also known as onager, while ballista means a two-armed piece which shoots bolts only.
• Some of the species held are aoudad, greater kudu, reticulated giraffe, Hartmann's mountain zebra, emu, greater rhea, Bolivian squirrel monkey, white-headed marmoset, Barbay macaque, dromedary camel, Persian onager, macaws (blue-and-yellow, scarlet and green-winged), red river hog, Cape porcupine, meerkat, sulcata tortoise, red-necked wallaby, Blackhead Persian sheep, Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and African pygmy goat.
• There were also the arrow machines, whether of small dimensions (first called scorpion and then manubalist), or of large size (called oxybeles oxybela and catapult, then ballistas), and the stone thrower (petróbolo or lithobolo in Greek, and Latin, according to the times, balista, onager and scorpio).

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