Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic
realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and …

The equid family contains only one single extant genus, Equus, including seven living
species grouped into horses on the one hand and zebras and asses on the other. In …

Donkeys transformed human history as essential beasts of burden for long-distance
movement, especially across semi-arid and upland environments. They remain insufficiently …

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up
to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first …

Taxonomic over-splitting of extinct or endangered taxa, due to an incomplete knowledge of
both skeletal morphological variability and the geographical ranges of past populations …

This chapter discusses the timing of the first domestication of donkeys (Equus asinus) in the
southern Levant (southern Syria-Israel Palestine-/Jordan) with reference to the region's …

Aim The negative impacts of climate change on mammals have been largely based on
assessments of total species' assemblages or individual species at broad scales. Here, we …

The extremely rich palaeontological record of the horse family, also known as equids, has
provided many examples of macroevolutionary change over the last~ 55 Mya. This family is …

There were several species of Equus in northern China during the Late Pleistocene,
including Equus przewalskii and Equus dalianensis. A number of morphological studies …

Many phylogenetically distinctive species are the last surviving member of a once diverse
clade. The loss of these species would thus represent the last stage in the loss of the clade …