Some ancient depictions of horselike animals used for riding or for pulling carts may refer to onagers.

一些古代描述的用于骑乘或拉车的马形动物可能指的是野驴。

As a result, although similar in other respects to ancestral donkeys, onagers have never been domesticated.

因此，尽管野驴在其他面与祖先的驴相似，但从未被驯化。

We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.

我们从苏美尔人和后来的描述中得知，投石驴经常被猎杀，也被与驴和马杂交。

Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers.

由于它的故乡包括新月沃地，西文明和动物驯化的摇篮，古代人们肯定对它进行了广泛的实验。