Observations on social organization and behaviour of African and Asiatic Wild asses
African and Asiatic Wild Asses (Equus africanus and E. hemionus) live in unstable groups or herds of variable composition. Some of the adult stallions are territorial in large territories in which they tolerate other ♂ ♂. The territorial ♂ ♂ are dominant over all their conspecifics.
The african wild ass conseration status in the horn of Africa
From 1989 to 1996, surveys were made in most of the historic range of African wild asses in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. From the 1970s to the mid 1990s populations of African wild asses (Equus africanus, Fitzinger, 1857) in Somalia and Ethiopia have declined from approximately 6 to 30 per 100 km2 to 1 or […]