Donkey meat | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-12

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Donkey meat


00:01:18 1 Scientific and common names
00:03:25 2 Characteristics
00:04:42 2.1 Breeding
00:06:33 2.2 Behaviour
00:07:17 3 History
00:11:38 4 Present status
00:14:13 5 Uses
00:14:22 5.1 Economic use
00:17:17 5.2 In warfare
00:18:00 6 Care
00:18:08 6.1 Shoeing
00:18:35 6.2 Nutrition
00:20:47 7 Burro
00:22:52 8 Feral donkeys and wild asses
00:23:40 8.1 Wild asses, onagers, and kiangs
00:24:30 9 Donkey hybrids
00:26:24 10 Cultural references
00:26:39 10.1 Religion, myth and folklore
00:30:46 10.2 Literature and film
00:34:16 10.3 Colloquialisms, proverbs and insults
00:36:28 10.4 Politics
00:38:58 11 See also



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The donkey or ass (Equus africanus asinus) is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African wild ass, E. africanus. The donkey has been used as a working animal for at least 5000 years. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world, mostly in underdeveloped countries, where they are used principally as draught or pack animals. Working donkeys are often associated with those living at or below subsistence levels. Small numbers of donkeys are kept for breeding or as pets in developed countries.
A male donkey or ass is called a jack, a female a jenny or jennet; a young donkey is a foal. Jack donkeys are often used to mate with female horses to produce mules; the biological "reciprocal" of a mule, from a stallion and jenny as its parents instead, is called a hinny.
Asses were first domesticated around 3000 BC, probably in Egypt or Mesopotamia,  and have spread around the world. They continue to fill important roles in many places today.  While domesticated species are increasing in numbers,  the African wild ass is an endangered species. As beasts of burden and companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia.