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

因此，尽管野驴在其他方面与祖先的驴相似，但从化。

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，投石驴经常猎杀，捕获并与驴和杂交。

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物可能指的是野驴。

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，西方文明和物化的摇篮，古代人们肯定对它进行了广泛的实验。

This sort of giant stone-throwing catapults, what the Romans might call an onager, because it kicks like a wild donkey called an onager.

这种巨型投石机，罗人可能称之为“野驴” （onager），因为它的发射作像一种名为“野驴” 的野驴那样猛烈踢腿。