From the archive record
A roaming herd of Wild Asses plod through the salt pans covered with Prosopis juliflora trees and slight grasslands. Meanwhile, a big male Blue bull or nilgai stares at the Wild Asses. The Blue bull is really an antelope unlike what its Hindi translation suggests (that it might be a cow - nil gai or blue cow). Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The Indian wild ass had a range that once extended from western India, through Sindh and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and south-eastern Iran. Today, its last habitat comprises the Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, Little Rann of Kutch and the surrounding areas of the Greater Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. The animal is also seen in the districts of Surendranagar, Banaskantha, Mehsana, and around Kutch. Saline desert, arid gra