[Sca-cooks] Onagers

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip commented:
> And, there's a species of wild ass, the Onager, I believe (would hafta 
> check) which can outrun any
> horse ever born. The difficulty with Oagers is that they don't take 
> well to training, and the trait seems to be hereditary, so that 
> crossing them with horses to provide a hinny or a mule would result in 
> something that can outrun everything in the pasture, that no one could 
> catch or train ;-
Oh! Interesting. I believe there is a siege engine called an "onager". 
I wonder if part of the reason might be that is a particularly onerous 
machine to work with.

Stefan
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