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The domesticated and the wild forms are identical, but the former has, in many parts of the world, owing to human neglect and abuse, greatly degenerated in size and grace from the qualities po e ed by the wild a . In Syria, this was the Onager of the ancients. There are several varieties due to breeding in the domestic form, while of the wild form it is believed that one species inhabits Asia, Equus hemippus or E. indicus, and another one, E. tæniopus, is found w. of the Red Sea in Africa. This was domesticated by the early Egyptians, the horse being introduced as late as 1900 B.Č. The flesh of the wild species is excellent as food. The cro between a male a and a mare is a mule, which resembles the father most. The stallion and female a when cro ed produce the hinny. Probably the first domesticated of the beasts of burden, the a is practically unknown as such in this