Onager known as the Persian onager. Until this day, the species share the same name, "onager". The onager is a member of the subgenus "Asinus", belonging to the genus "Equus" and is classified under the family Equidae. The species was described and given its binomial name "Equus hemionus" by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. The Asiatic wild ass, among Old World equids, existed for more than 4 million years. The oldest divergence of "Equus" was the onager followed by the zebras and onwards. A new species called the kiang ("E. kiang"), a Tibetan relative, was previously considered to be
Animal Sentience (journal) Animal Sentience (journal) Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling is a multidisciplinary academic journal. Its subject matter, animal sentience, concerns what animals think and feel, and the journal also covers methods through which scientists and scholars can study this and make the information available to the general public. The journal is published by the Institute for Science and Policy of The Humane Society of the United States, and the editor-in-chief is Steven Harnad, founder of the journal "Behavioral and Brain Sciences". "Animal Sentience" launched in 2015. Its first issue appeared in 2016, and was in the news for