CNN: In addition to the donkeys on your ranches, you have a separate project to help other donkeys.
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Because tens of thousands of donkeys have been killed, Burkina Faso and Niger banned the export of donkeys this year.
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It is most female donkeys that never conceive when bred to male horses, not most female horses when bred to male donkeys.
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"The theft of donkeys has particularly disenfranchised farmers who use the donkeys to transport proceeds from farms or fetch water from considerably long distances," Munya said.
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This weighs about 16 pounds and for the mini-donkeys that's all they need; standard-sized donkeys must add weights to a minimum of 33 pounds.
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"I don't know if he just decided at that moment that he loved donkeys, or if he decided at that moment that he's the donkeys' caretaker," Chapman added.
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One of those donkeys was Sherman — now a star.
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Even though the number of donkeys is increasing, he said, global economic development might well mean that tractors, cars and trucks will become available to the poor who now depend on donkeys.
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They came in buses, on donkeys, and sometimes by foot.
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They have been part of security systems for donkeys' years.
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Well, on the surface it's an image of two donkeys.
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To be fair, this is hard, since donkeys reproduce slowly.
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Some ejiao firms plan to replace imports with Chinese donkeys.
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BOOTHE: -- that also tried to pass donkeys off as zebras.
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Donkeys at the bottom of the sea, munching sea grass.
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"Before that, people traveled by camels and donkeys," he says.
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You may have heard, for instance, that donkeys are stubborn.
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According to the authorities, the donkeys were making a mess.
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Donkeys awaiting slaughter at the Goldox Donkey Slaughterhouse in Kenya.
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The earliest races were on buffalos, and then on donkeys.
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Donkeys aren't like horses, which can be spurred into obedience.
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For wild donkeys, going mannequin was a terrific survival adaptation.
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What inspired him: Meyers didn't always feel so strongly about donkeys.
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DONKEYS are the backbone of many farming villages in developing countries.
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Others fill containers from a muddy pool as donkeys drink alongside.
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Hilario Elizalde, a local resident, thinks donkeys deserve their own day.
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"We eat the rice that even donkeys and horses don't eat."
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The donkeys will be on display from July 1 to Sept.
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Led by Donkeys reminded the president of the ship's existence, anyway.
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Led By Donkeys has previously used projections to promote certain causes.
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The donkeys become aggressive should any unwanted guest try to approach.
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You have Li'l Sebastian, miniature donkeys, and now, miniature Krispy Kremes.
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And yet museums are full of celebrations of horses, not donkeys.
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Lvju, or polo played using donkeys, was preferred for this reason.
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The donkeys were also smaller than is expected of pack animals.
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In Bizet's "Carmen," he populated the stage with horses and donkeys.
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On the evolutionary tree, they're closer together than horses and donkeys.
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It now works across three continents, treating horses, donkeys and mules.
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"We went to meet them with donkeys and motorcycles," he said.
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"Water used to come up on donkeys with barrels," he says.
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Also five goats, four dogs, two miniature horses and two donkeys.
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"Their licenses to slaughter donkeys are further revoked immediately," he said.
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Donkeys are prey, so they live or die by the herd.
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Some of Ineson's donkeys have won awards such as "Best Beach Donkey".
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"The Mueller team overwhelmingly ought to be attired with Democratic donkeys," Rep.
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Three-foot-tall donkeys milled among them, nibbling on the hay bales.
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" From now on, all badasses should be referred to as "cool donkeys.
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Kimberly Brockett, who keeps mammoth donkeys at Tripledale Farm in Guilford, Conn.
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The domestication of donkeys is only one of her areas of interest.
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Sometimes the camels were carved alongside other beasts of burden, like donkeys.
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They found 11 camels, two donkeys and one unknown horse-like animal.
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By 2005, Meyers and his wife had 250 donkeys on their land.
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We have people who lease their lands to put our donkeys on.
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We can put 2,000 to 3,000 donkeys on sanctuary within three months.
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Or they'd wait for the other donkey or donkeys to catch up.
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Votto asked Cozart if he liked donkeys, and Cozart said he did.
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China should also suspend the import of donkeys, according to the organization.
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"They're basically donkeys," someone shouts, prompting a laugh from everyone in earshot.
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"We wandered for three months, losing every single animal apart from two donkeys," said Saido Ahmed Keyat, a 21980-year-old mother of five, whose family had boasted 22015 sheep and goats, 22.9 cattle, eight camels and seven donkeys.
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The Safe Haven for Donkeys provides free hoof care and dental treatment to donkeys, mules and horses in the central West Bank city of Nablus, as well as via a mobile clinic that visits villages across the mountainous territory.
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Here's a fact: mules are stronger, pound-for-pound, than horses and donkeys.
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There were beat-up cars, outhouses and donkeys visible from the fence line.
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A pony cart and donkeys on the beach in Atlantic City in 1901.
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Gibson said about 80 percent of the remaining 50 donkeys have interested homes.
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" Of the surrounding damage, she says, "We saw dead donkeys, chickens and turtles.
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Outside, horses and donkeys pull creaking wooden carts of vegetables down the street.
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Our vet had a field with donkeys, and then she got a llama.
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The protest was set up by the anti-Brexit group Led By Donkeys.
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The sheep are watched over by livestock guardians—a llama, alpacas, and donkeys.
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Here she is, feeding some minty treats to a trio of baby donkeys.
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That is why donkeys are kept to protect sheep, goats and other animals.
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One nonscientific claim about donkeys is that they are lovable, and they are.
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We had spoken a while ago for an article I did on donkeys.
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With the help of a friend's two donkeys, Flower and Matilda, it worked.
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Donkeys on deathwatch were way out of our very limited field of experience.
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"Zebras and donkeys are very social," she explained when I came to visit.
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"Donkeys know their rights and they can shut you down fast," says Curtis.
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Did you also know there's an annual running of the donkeys in Colorado?
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On the corner near the entrance to the park, tired donkeys pull lumbering carts.
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Who were the two donkeys, and why did the woman shoot one of them?
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People rushed to rescue dozens of horses, donkeys, goats, a pig and an emu.
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The donkeys are being lured into a corral using a water trough, he said.
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The load on the backs of the Santorini donkeys is about to get lighter.
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Donkeys are considered low-level creatures, often abused, or slaughtered for gelatin or meat.
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Minus some donkeys in reindeer ears, it looked like a classic winter wonderland scam.
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He and others at the meeting said donkeys would attack dogs, coyotes or foxes.
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Unlike their equine cousins, "donkeys have two speeds: slow and slower," the saying goes.
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Tanya lives a few farms over from us with three donkeys of her own.
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As soon as they were gone, Sherman and Flower suddenly remembered they were donkeys.
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That's why famous adventurers and poor peasants alike made donkeys their ride of choice.
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In Afghanistan, donkeys were occasionally pressed into service to carry bombs targeting NATO forces.
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African penguins are known for their characteristic braying reminiscent of the sounds donkeys make.
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Plastic statues of cartoonish donkeys stood on street corners smiling — no, laughing — at me.
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And don't call donkeys mules, which are actually half donkey and half horse breeds.
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There, Uighur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik herders haggled over horses, donkeys, sheep and camels.
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"Children treat the donkeys with less respect than an actual zebra," reported one journalist.
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A representative for the animal rights group Help the Santorini Donkeys recently told the Mirror that locals have been forced to begin breeding their donkeys with stronger mules to make it easier for them to carry what the Mirror calls "fatter tourists."
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"We wandered for three months, losing every single animal apart from two donkeys," said Saido Ahmed Keyat, a 29-year-old mother of five, whose family had boasted 200 sheep and goats, 15 cattle, eight camels, and seven donkeys, according to Reuters.
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Someone drives to a field where two donkeys are standing and shoots one of them.
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The society and Big Island residents were working Friday to prepare the donkeys for adoption.
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All things being equal, more demand from China ought to translate into more donkeys raised.
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"Nothing has changed," she said, as goats and donkeys wandered down her rubbish-strewn lane.
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"Donkeys are perhaps the most misunderstood and under appreciated of man's domesticated animals," Stiert says.
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I've been around for donkeys years, and as she's grown up I've grown with her.
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Donkeys are known for their independence, intelligence & persistence and horses for their speed, perceptiveness & memory.
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Donkeys usually keep their hooves naturally pumiced by foraging for long miles over rocky ground.
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Donkeys are sometimes abused and, in the worst cases, slaughtered for gelatin and for meat.
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I grew up in Jamaica, where my family raised donkeys and horses on our farm.
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The task of ferrying up tourists was given to sure-footed donkeys climbing through scrub.
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In November, eight donkeys in India were jailed for four days for their expensive tastes.
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But now the animal lives peacefully alongside four donkeys, 23 dogs and an injured eagle.
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San Angelo, Texas (CNN)Mark Meyers believes donkeys are one of the most misunderstood animals.
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"Agua Donkeys" is about two career pool cleaners with little ambition beyond the perfect tan.
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"Agua Donkeys" is about two career pool cleaners with little ambition beyond the perfect tan.
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Running With Sherman Hal Walter always loved donkeys a little more than they loved him.
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Organizers also point out that donkeys enjoy the race as much as the ultra-runners.
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"We get the nudges, we get the facial expressions," he said, adding that like dogs, donkeys "give a paw, he lifts a leg to show his emotions that way," said Ineson about his 12-year-old donkey named Carl, one of 17 donkeys he owns.
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"One of our first complaints was the donkeys were actually coming into the school yard," said Gibson, adding that some residents were so fed up with the donkeys that they threatened to kill them, while others wanted to use their meat to make jerky.
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Contributions will help support the care of horses, goats, donkeys, alpacas, chickens, cats, dogs, and rabbits.
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Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul tweeted the same photo of a pair of sepia-toned donkeys.
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The milk of 7,000 donkeys was reportedly needed to fill one of Cleopatra's beautifying daily baths.
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"He had the health and the well-being of the donkeys' interest at heart," Cline says.
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"When I saw these donkeys, it just clicked with who I was," he says to PEOPLE.
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Ms. Mathews loved animals and indexed all the dogs, cattle, even miniature donkeys, she could find.
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While none of these donkeys will have his indomitable spirit, they are both real and alive.
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We also told you some interesting things this year about parrots, donkeys, goldfish and even cats.
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Expensive SUVs now whisk affluent visitors along dirt roads once limited to donkeys and trekking pilgrims.
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When he learned the donkeys had been incarcerated, he pleaded with police officers to release them.
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"This context provides evidence the donkeys in her tomb were for polo, not transport," Hu said.
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Donkeys were inevitably part of this trade route, but actual evidence of their presence is rare.
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"People are stealing and selling stolen donkeys, but the government is not helping," Mr. Njeru said.
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That attitude toward Democrats of "damn all of you and the donkeys you rode in on"?
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A fence separates their house from an open field, where nine cows and two donkeys graze.
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Domesticated for about 5,000 years, donkeys have been put to work for humanity's historically changing needs.
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We're told Paul's animal rescue operation -- with mini-horses, donkeys and alpacas -- will be prominently featured.
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Officers responded, rescuing a cow, a goat, chickens, roosters, two beagles, and also donkeys Romeo and Sadie.
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FarmHouse Fresh's generosity isn't limited to the donkeys, goats, chickens, horses, ponies and pigs in their care.
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All the donkeys will get check-ups from a veterinarian before they're taken to their new homes.
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"I had never raised donkeys before so I was a little bit nervous about that," said Schattauer.
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Prices for donkeys have rocketed, up by 300% in Kenya alone last year, reflecting an unrelenting demand.
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At the edge of Mogotio, a town of roadside shops, hundreds of donkeys graze along the road.
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The municipality, she added, is working with a sanctuary to preserve and take care of the donkeys.
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That's where we came up with "Little Donkey," because donkeys are that workhorse animal in every civilization.
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When drought forced the donkeys into residential areas in search of water, the herd became a problem.
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The Humane Society and Big Island residents were working on Friday to prepare the donkeys for adoption.
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Now, fighters have no vehicles and use bicycles and donkeys to get around, the girls told him.
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"Donkeys in my opinion are the most misunderstood and underappreciated of man's domesticated animals," Mr. Stiert said.
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The free clinic on Cairo's desert outskirts has treated around 300 horses and donkeys in two years.
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Donkeys have retained some of that thoughtful intelligence, said Dr. Marshall, who was not at the symposium.
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Philip Mshelia, a veterinarian from Nigeria, spoke at the symposium about the suffering of donkeys in Africa.
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"This finding shows that donkeys have also had a place as high status rather than humble animals."
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We have horses, alpacas, goats, sheep and tortoises, two donkeys and a cow, and got everyone out.
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The perception that donkeys are stupid and stubborn is really detrimental to their survival, in my opinion.
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I'd tied up the donkeys right next to the parking spot, which was probably my second mistake.
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Donkeys often are an essential lifeline for farmers who use them for transport, domestic work and milk.
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The park had been a favorite place growing up, where I learned to bike and ride donkeys.
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The residents refer to the people who carry over backpacks full of drugs as burros, or donkeys.
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I see several people holding up cardboard coffins painted with dead donkeys and "DNC" written on the top.
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He and his wife Maria grow chestnuts, vegetables and have a small flock of sheep and five donkeys.
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When drought conditions forced the donkeys into residential areas in search of water, the herd became a problem.
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So she decided to adopt another two donkeys last week — Josephine and Sootie Mae — who are both pregnant.
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There were donkeys, dog-people and cat-people, usually wearing patterned sweaters, but horses were a particular favourite.
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But as the rising power shifts towards advanced industry and away from traditional agriculture, donkeys are in decline.
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According to KSBY, the firefighters found a pair of donkeys walking side-by-side down an empty road.
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Farther afield, Colombia lost almost a tenth of its donkeys and Brazil around 5% over the same period.
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From 33 to 2016, the number of donkeys fell by 60% in Botswana and a fifth in Lesotho.
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Some South American donkeys are transported more than 1,000km for slaughter, demonstrating the reach of the Chinese demand.
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All of the donkeys will get checkups from a veterinarian before they are taken to their new homes.
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"With donkeys it should be no more than eight stone [112 pounds], but how would that be imposed?"
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Donkeys clustered in a paddock near the Abusir pyramids, one of several pyramid groupings that dot the area.
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He travels with other vets to provide free care to donkeys in many places where none is available.
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Although donkeys may avoid armed angels and can run when threatened, that isn't their usual reaction to predators.
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But many donkeys are not kept as pets or working animals, but slaughtered for their meat or hides.
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Twenty-two survivors were carried to safety on donkeys by rescuers who found them lost in the mountains.
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"Ask anyone about donkeys and they will probably tell you they are stubborn, stupid and dangerous," he said.
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This is the land of so-called nodding donkeys, the bobbing pumpjacks that dot the flat, hot terrain.
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The three donkeys — Chris with Flower, me with Matilda, and Mika with Sherman — worked together like a pack.
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Even Queen Victoria relied on donkeys to pull her carriage through narrow European streets when she traveled abroad.
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Over the weekend, Iowan Scott Shehan crossed state lines to help ferry donkeys and ponies to dry land.
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Some hotels are luring customers with mascots — not just dogs, but also birds, cats, tortoises and even donkeys.
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Cozart said that he had taken his young son, Cooper, to feed the donkeys at a nearby farm.
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"When I first heard about this, I thought they used real donkeys to carry the marijuana," Flaco says.
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About 27,000 wild horses and burros, or small donkeys, can sustainably live on public land designated for wildlife.
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The area is farmed by local Basotho shepherds, usually teenage boys, who look after sheep, goats, cows and donkeys.
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In both cases, the value of donkeys soared and the fledgling industry delivered a valuable stream of foreign currency.
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China is now increasingly looking to Africa to boost its stocks, and imports donkeys from countries across the continent.
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Poor farmers can hardly be blamed for selling their donkeys for sums that dwarf their value as draft animals.
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Among her brood ... 12 horses, 2 donkeys, 1 mule, 1 pony, 1 potbellied pig, 22 cats and 3 dogs.
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They go to look at the horses, the donkeys, a wild boar kept in a pen behind the stables.
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The ranch is home to an eclectic assortment of creatures, from ostriches and stingrays to miniature donkeys and sheep.
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Five donkey owners in Naivasha told the Thomson Reuters Foundation how they woke up to find their donkeys missing.
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Dr. Onyango maintained that none of these rules is sufficient to ensure that donkeys and skins are legally acquired.
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Others were more cryptic: a group of donkeys silhouetted in the night; a cartoonlike space alien, flipping a quarter.
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Many donkeys are purchased or adopted by people who ultimately can't properly care for them, resulting in ill treatment.
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Our best chance, we figured, was to have the donkeys roped to my pickup truck and ready in advance.
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It took weeks to get all three donkeys to know it wasn't a threat, and to run past it.
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Some hotels are luring customers with mascots, and not just dogs, but also birds, cats, tortoises and even donkeys.
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They're nomadic donkeys of the desert, and apparently they are always accompanied by an accomplished pianist on their travels.
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The markets put people in close contact with live animals, such as chickens, pigs, donkeys, sheep, reptiles, and fish.
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"I can't explain it except that in their way, donkeys think faster than we do," says Mary, Hal's wife.
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Five donkey owners in Naivasha told the Thomson Reuters Foundation how they woke up to find their donkeys missing.
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BAS, a game written in BASIC programming language which saw the protagonist run over donkeys who appeared before the car.
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We've got 30 chickens and a couple of donkeys, a couple of ducks and we've got a big, organic garden.
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Land mines dot no-man's-land, and smugglers are said to drive their donkeys in advance to test the route.
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CAIRO – Egypt says archeologists have unearthed 3,500-year-old rock art depicting bulls, donkeys and sheep in the Eastern Desert.
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But if you want to start editing donkeys and camels into your summertime bikini shots, by all means, edit away.
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They were exciting times, and it was a really great place to drink—people used to rock up on donkeys.
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His brother, Kasim, shows up later with donkeys for an epic raid and is chopped to death by 40 thieves.
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The herd went entirely unmanaged for nearly 40 years because the donkeys weren't considered game or endangered animals, said Gibson.
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It can take weeks to months to train donkeys to lead from a halter and interact with humans, Gibson said.
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Donkeys, cows, sheep and goats have also been hit, though it is the ungainly camels that are most at risk.
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The primary cause is neither disease nor declining demand for live donkeys, but instead a burgeoning market for their pelts.
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Accompanied with long lines of donkeys, the Afar people mine rich salt from the ground to sell at local markets.
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Older residents are insulted by the implication they are donkeys, which is like calling someone an idiot in Palestinian society.
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Ears back and snouts pulled into a grin, the donkeys stick in their muzzles in the hope of a reward.
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The goats were easy to place — someone in Lancaster can always use a free lawn mower — but donkeys are tough.
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Searchers combing through the charred areas have rescued hundreds of animals -- including dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, ducks, and a tortoise.
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Farmers and businessmen from as far as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan come in with their cows, sheep, donkeys, camels, and horses.
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Ken Bacher, Triple R Horse Rescue president, says that more than 160 of the donkeys are in need of homes.
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Most female donkeys never conceive when mated with a stallion, but the rare exceptions don't seem to have much trouble.
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Groups like the Donkey Sanctuary in England and Brooke: Action for Working Horses and Donkeys support education and veterinary care.
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The counties are home to more than 28,210 equine animals (horses, mules and donkeys), according to the Sonoma Horse Council.
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In other cases, owners found their stolen donkeys in the abattoir amongst the droves of others in the holding yard.
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Attempts to replenish the herds have proved challenging: Unlike cows or pigs, donkeys do not lend themselves to intensive breeding.
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Tanzania joined the list in June, citing concerns that its donkeys would soon be wiped out if the slaughter continued.
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The abattoir owners insist that they are bettering the country by generating jobs and paying handsome prices for unneeded donkeys.
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Many veterans, using a Chinese saying, liken themselves to donkeys slaughtered after they are too old to work a grindstone.
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Tanya and I yanked the ropes to free the squirming donkeys from the truck bumper as fast as we could.
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They have a small herd of 3003 cattle, three goats, two donkeys, and chickens, ducks, geese and a guinea hen.
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Even when stampeding, donkeys run side-by-side, maintaining formation to prevent an attacker from pulling one of them down.
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Donkeys get injured too, but in 70 years of racing, not one animal has died or been injured beyond recovery.
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Christmas is pretty much cozy all round; even the religious parts are all babies and donkeys and angels and stars.
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The group said about 100 out of 2,000 donkeys and mules are being used for tourist rides on the island.
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In other cases, owners found their stolen donkeys in the abattoir amongst the droves of others in the holding yard.
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Later I read a book by A.J.P. Taylor about the Battle of the Somme, and also a book called The Donkeys.
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The nonprofit has rescued 20183,000 donkeys and burros to date and has expanded to two additional ranches in Virginia and Arizona.
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Trucks and donkeys hauled subsidised basics like fuel, flour and sugar to Morocco, and returned with hashish from Morocco's mountainous Rif.
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Entertainment group Merlin Events has teamed up with "Real Donkeys" to offer donkey rides "with a difference" in London's Jubilee Gardens.
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Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they're mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses.
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On the contrary, reformers note, in the early days of the faith women rode donkeys, unsupervised, without bringing death and destruction.
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The abattoir in Baringo has been running for almost two years, slaughtering hundreds of donkeys a day to satisfy Chinese demand.
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Demand for their skin has led to a dramatic fall in the number of donkeys in India, Kyrgyzstan, Botswana and Mongolia.
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As the initial supply of readily available or "spare" donkeys diminishes, so too the instances and threat of donkey theft increase.
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Along with the vessel, the team also found arrowheads, daggers, an ax head and animal bones from sheep and possibly donkeys.
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The first donkeys were probably domesticated about 6,000 years ago, and their importance was evident in those 5,000-year-old burials.
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"In 2016, this business of donkeys erupted," said Obassy Nguvillah, a police superintendent in Tanzania's Monduli district, near the Kenyan border.
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Donkeys often arrive in horrific condition, some with broken legs or maggot-infested wounds, and many in states of near starvation.
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The nonprofit has rescued 13,000 donkeys and burros to date and has expanded to two additional ranches in Virginia and Arizona.
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"Donkeys can do that?" asked my daughter Sophie, then 9, who'd barely managed to scramble up the slippery stone slope herself.
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Given the scale of demand, even pregnant mares and young foals, as well as sick and injured donkeys, are being traded.
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Watching people watch a stage is just lazy filmmaking, no matter how many donkeys, doves and bleating goats enliven the spectacle.
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Votto arranged with Honey Hill Farm in nearby Pendleton County, Kentucky, to bring three donkeys to Great American Ball Park on Saturday.
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The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, on the edge of town, has an exhibition of antique "nodding donkeys" dating back to the 1930s.
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"We have dogs, goats, guinea fowl, chickens, ducks, donkeys, miniature horses and horses at our farm right now," Cushman said on Thursday.
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However, donkeys breed at a pace conducive to neither speed (14953-month gestation) nor efficiency (high levels of miscarriages when bred intensively).
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Next to a lorry, a woman in a shimmering dress says she has brought 100 donkeys from Moyale, two days' drive north.
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Instead, thieves have begun stealing donkeys in order to take advantage of the surging prices, leaving farmers without their most prized labourers.
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The donkeys are the last of more than 500 that were castoffs from the early days of Hawaiian coffee and agricultural plantations.
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Two donkeys meandered down Harnet Avenue, the capital's main boulevard, stopping to nibble at a patch of grass around a palm tree.
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The Time front pages also featured popular animals like dogs, horses and monkeys as well as political cartoons for donkeys and elephants.
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Led By Donkeys also projected the country's approval ratings of Trump and former President Obama on the Tower of London on Monday.
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Cut off from access to food, some residents in the town have had to resort to eating leaves, grass, donkeys, and cats.
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"Donkeys are the least of the least," said Eric Davis, the veterinarian from the University of California, Davis, who started the symposium.
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What happens to donkeys then may be what happened to horses in developed countries as cars and trucks replaced them — widespread slaughter.
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In Fallentimber, they had lost several dogs and donkeys to wasting illnesses that Lori suspected were related to a contaminated water table.
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The researchers wanted to determine if the donkeys truly belonged in the grave, or if they had been deposited there by looters.
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And the donkeys found in the noblewoman's tomb were about six years old -- the prime age for polo, according to the researchers.
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" In November, researchers at the Beijing Forestry University warned that China's demand for ejiao may cause donkeys "to become the next pangolin.
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With five donkeys, Ms. Moko was able to complete two tasks each day: collecting water from distant wells, say, or gathering firewood.
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According to the organization, fierce demand is already draining neighboring countries; donkeys sometimes are brought into Kenya from Uganda, Somalia or Tanzania.
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"If you're going to try to explain why donkeys fly, you're first going to have to see a flying donkey," he said.
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Donkeys depend on the rocking motion of movement to digest their food, so McDougall got the wild idea of taking Sherman running.
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Three on-site veterinarians lead guest interactions with endangered and rescued animals, including feeding and bathing donkeys, white-tailed deer and macaws.
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On many occasions, he managed to ride off with the village donkeys, bareback and lugging another donkey in tow by the ear.
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The donkeys are the last of more than 500 that were cast-offs from the early days of Hawaii coffee and agricultural plantations.
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In August, Burkina Faso took the same step, after 45,000 donkeys were slaughtered in six months from a total population of 1.4 million.
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Bossed about by servants who refuse to play with her, she watches out of the windows as donkeys, slaves and nuns walk past.
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Colo's own choreographed procession comes alive with actors, dancers, oxen, donkeys, and goats to demonstrate a contemporary exodus deeply rooted in the past.
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Donkeys are social animals, so they must be adopted in pairs or have another animal to keep them company at their new home.
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Angry animal advocates can calm down: Tens of thousands of wild horses and donkeys will be spared the threat of an untimely death.
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We bump our way past villagers on donkeys, herds of camels and goats, and long stretches where there is no one in sight.
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Signing on with the Donkeys and Elephants would seem a tired construct in a disintermediated culture of free agents and personal brand customization.
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Mr. Stiert got into donkeys in 2012 after his daughter, then a pre-veterinary student, told him she was joining a donkey club.
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One day in 2012, two of Mr. Stiert's donkeys visited the dementia ward of Golden Hill nursing home, up the road in Kingston.
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Early risers are rewarded with flurries of brightly colored birds (like the orange-and-black troupial), roaming packs of donkeys and empty beaches.
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Marshall, a well-known donkey zooarchaeologist, says this discovery places donkeys in an elite setting compared to how history has treated them otherwise.
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Black-clad women are gossiping in the shade and donkeys clop and stop over ill-paved stones in the siesta-silent, sunlit afternoon.
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Since 2016, Kenyan officials licensed four donkey abattoirs, which slaughtered a total 301,977 donkeys from April 2016 to December 2018, the report states.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE A camel, a cow and a donkey were found lost on a Kansas road Camels and cows and donkeys, oh my!
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Donkeys have fought off mountain lions, and even Hal, a seasoned and careful pro, got a nasty nip near his neck last year.
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She's learned firsthand that donkeys can bloody you badly without even trying, so she marvels at how protective they are around her son.
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There were camels in pasture, a gigantic wingless emu, shrieking peacocks on the dirt paths, a pen stocked with miniature horses and donkeys.
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Hope sprung eternal last month when stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul both tweeted the same photo of a pair of sepia-toned donkeys.
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We've collected this year's showstoppers, like Chiaru Shiota's forest of hanging suitcases, Donald Moffett's hyperrealistic donkeys, and Davide Balula's mimed renditions of famous sculptures.
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Award-winning cows, horses, sheep and even donkeys paraded in front of him, as gauchos dressed in their baggy bombacha trousers doffed their berets.
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Dogs, horses, monkeys and bulls tend to be the most popular animals to grace Time covers, as well as donkeys and elephants, of course.
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But among the bustling clubs and zebra-painted donkeys, there are also thousands of deportees in the city who find their lives in limbo.
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Authorities said hundreds of pets, donkeys and even llamas have filled college facilities, county fairgrounds and sports facilities that were turned into temporary shelters.
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While the snarling tigers held the audience rapt, a performance by donkeys — they hopped over sedentary llamas — lacked a how-did-they-do-that?
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It was too ridiculous to say out loud, not unless I wanted to reveal I knew nothing about donkeys and probably shouldn't have one.
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NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A British-funded veterinary clinic is caring for hundreds of working and abandoned donkeys in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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People wandering around with donkeys, crying, "Bring out your dead!" and painting crosses on walls, which was, I guess, like a medieval Twitter. #AllHopeIsLost.
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The rampant mistreatment of horses, camels and donkeys at major attractions like the pyramids of Giza has prompted calls for visitors to boycott rides.
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The family set up shop in the seaside neighborhood of Samatya in Constantinople, where metal arrived on camel caravans and donkeys powered primitive machines.
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There are no bars, no cars — not even roads (residents and visitors rely on donkeys to carry supplies up and down the steep hills).
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On the other side were three donkeys who'd come over to check out the new person and see what the fuss was all about.
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Donkeys are the opposite; they freeze when they sense something's amiss, which could be why I was struggling to get Sherman down the driveway.
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Its origins date to 1901, when its predecessor opened in Jerusalem as a drug wholesaler, distributing products throughout the area on camels and donkeys.
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One recent morning, donkeys grazed in a field outside the Linda Woodman State Jail as 219 girls stepped off the Girls Embracing Mothers bus.
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" Analysts at Edison Investment Research warned in March that many of the latest food delivery startups are turning out to be "donkeys not unicorns.
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But when it comes to confronting new creatures like ponies and donkeys, he may have to change his tactics if he wants to be liked.
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As Anguelovski points out, people alive today remember donkeys in the streets of Barcelona in the 1980s, in the wake of dictator Francisco Franco's misrule.
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If accepted, it's advised that the future owner stocks up on grass, hay and straw, as hungry donkeys can be a pain in the ass.
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I tried going to Blackpool for inspiration once, the so called Las Vegas of the North, but all I found was malnourished donkeys and sadness.
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The biologist said further research and actions are needed, possibly involving castrating donkeys, sending them to farms, or using them in environmental education and tourism.
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Television footage showed the donkeys, in the town of Orai in Uttar Pradesh state, plodding out of a scruffy jail, walking single file, heads bowed.
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"We are dead, but we have breath," said Zakia Abu Ajwa, 57, who now cooks greens normally fed to donkeys for her three small grandchildren.
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In 2016, prices for skins were fifty times higher than in 2014, while prices for live donkeys have nearly tripled, from about $60 to $165.
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Mark Meyers: Donkeys have literally built this country on their backs from crossing the Rio Grande 178 years before we signed the Declaration of Independence.
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If I was limited to just San Angelo, Virginia, and Arizona, that would be a really hard cap on how many donkeys I can save.
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Donkeys can be finicky and scared of what seem to us like innocuous things, like an orange sign on the side of the gravel road.
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Kenya has four licensed donkey abattoirs - more than any other country on the continent - which slaughter around 21990,2.23 donkeys a day, according to government data.
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These works pack a punch, so be sure to decompress outside with the museum's resident Sardinian donkeys before you move on to your next stop.
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Donkeys have made his temples throb with fury, but they've also prepared him for the most perplexing challenge of his life: a boy named Harrison.
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When Harrison is having a really tough afternoon, in fact, Hal will scoot him outside and onto the back of one of the donkeys, Laredo.
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People continue to help each other find family members and have even asked about the status of the island's "critters," like St. John's famous donkeys.
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Villagers complain of trekking longer distances - sometimes more than 10 km (000 miles) with their donkeys laden with empty jerry cans in search of water.
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Once the chaos caused by the multiple wildfires begins to wane, the rescue will work on finding the donkeys' owners if they haven't already come forward.
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As the unicorns instead become donkeys, lawyers will be dusting off their files as they seek to structure these down rounds and avoid all-out warfare.
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Meanwhile in poorer countries, such as Egypt, where cars are beyond measly pay packets, people struggle to get from A to B. Donkeys and carts endure.
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Health workers often choose a base near a water point, to which communities usually stay close so their goats, cattle, camels, donkeys and sheep can drink.
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As far as Jody knows, her unique pet is "one of a kind," but she knows there are other little donkeys out there that need care.
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Yet Palestine's Taybeh Brewery successfully transported 21200-kilogram kegs of beer across military checkpoints on donkeys while an increasingly violent and repressive occupation escalated around them.
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I didn't see garbage anywhere, either — and even the cows, goats, horses, and donkeys ambled over as I passed by as if to also say hello.
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Mr. Njeru, 21.8, a market porter who depends on his animals to ferry goods around this city, had already lost five donkeys earlier in the year.
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The country's three abattoirs — all of which have Chinese owners or partners — reported processing just under 100,000 donkeys in two years, according to a government memo.
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Over the last three months, Bureau of Land Management officials have found the bodies of 42 donkeys covered in gunshot wounds near the California-Nevada border.
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The first was thinking it would be fun to take our pet donkeys out for a moonlight run with Vella Shpringa, our local Amish running club.
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The course of true love never did run smooth, but it doesn't usually get so bumpy that it includes magical flowers, squabbling fairies and lusty donkeys.
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Running with donkeys, it turns out, is not much different than running with my stubborn dog, only they're a lot bigger and can break your leg.
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Donkeys are notoriously skittish about sudden moves, and their natural reaction is to hammer away with their hooves until the threat is pummeled into the dirt.
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They show up at every race, three generations strong; Amber's parents even got a pair of mini-donkeys so they can hike along behind the grandkids.
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In fact, they're the camels of the East, North and South, too, as donkeys continue to thrive in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
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"If you observe donkeys in the wild, they aren't sedentary creatures," wrote Western Pack Burro Ass-ociation member Sheri L. Thompson on the sport's race website.
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Calmette began producing his anti-cobra cocktail of antibodies in donkeys and horses and in 1895, for the first time, successfully treated a human snakebite victim.
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Instead, soulless walkways lined with shops sporting global brands have buried the maze of spice and gold markets that once were filled with the braying of donkeys.
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"We walked ... We rode donkeys and cars ... We made it to al-Mokha in a month," said the elderly Ibrahim, who does not know her exact age.
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Mark Ineson, owner of "Real Donkeys" in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, has been studying the animals for more than 20 years and says they are very emotive creatures.
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Now, people prefer tractors and pick-up trucks for the jobs donkeys used to do, which has led to a drop in the donkey population in Otumba.
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Witherspoon is also an animal lover, and one clip shows her miniature donkeys, which she fondly refers to as her "badonkadonks" during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres.
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"They used to be domestic donkeys, and then they were abandoned," said Tugberk Emirzade, a biologist and wilderness guide who took part in the last field survey.
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Achour chewed on a stalk, stood up to survey the horizon, and sat down again, cursing his son, the slowness of donkeys, and the stupidity of women.
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"The holiday season on islands is now a lot longer than it used to be, meaning that the donkeys are pretty much working the whole year round."
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Meghan, Nicole, Kacie, Rachel, and Lester walked me around the farm to where they take care of horses, donkeys, and a 25-year-old Clydesdale named Francis.
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The men, aged between 18 and 20, are part of a small Pokot community of herdsmen who tend cows, goats, sheep, camels and donkeys in Baringo County.
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Besides being prize pets, the donkeys are also good for Onolatry, a donkey-centric worship system that was used by ancient Romans to taunt early Judeo-Christians.
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Yes, that was it: Susan Fowler showed us the donkeys that were worshiped as kings by the VCs and investors and boards and, yes, the media, too.
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Mr. Lovitz portrays Harry as a menschy Yiddish grotesque, garbed in Borough Park finery and commanding a trio of airborne donkeys with names from the old country.
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He also built a menagerie of pets that, over time, included a parakeet named Lucy and mini-donkeys named for two Yankee pitchers, Rivera and Orlando Hernandez.
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Inside the Allenholm Farm market, a woman peeled fruit with a hand-crank device, then stepped outside to feed the peels to the donkeys, ponies and goats.
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This is a big mistake, she realized, but it was too late: A shotgun blasted, the donkeys stampeded, and the World Championship Pack Burro Race was underway.
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There are also reportedly terrible animal welfare abuses in the supply chain, the report states, as donkeys are often stolen then transported to slaughterhouses in terrible conditions.
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I can hear the braying of one of the donkeys in the horse pasture about 200 meters down the hill — I passed them on the way up.
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Illustration: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo)Giz AsksIn this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything from space to butts and get answers from a variety of experts. Bears. Donkeys.
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Its adherents enjoyed public privileges in what they could wear (including the colour of their turbans), ride (horses, not donkeys) or build (tall houses and places of worship).
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Clad in faded overalls and work boots, Duke ignores three donkeys braying for their breakfast in favor of Tommy, her pet tortoise, to whom she proffers a banana.
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Sue Chapman of Frisco, Texas, encountered an impostor during her trip to North Texas to save nine mini donkeys from a trip to the kill pens in Mexico.
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OTUMBA, Mexico - With races, rides, costumes and even a polo match, locals in the Mexican town of Otumba honored donkeys with their own special day on May 1st.
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Cruz and others started a crowdfunding campaign that raised $57,000, which went to feeding the cats and the zoo's donkeys, surgery, medical treatment and the staff's unpaid wages.
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And donkeys may no longer enjoy the elevated status they did in ancient times, but a budding movement hopes to bring respect back to the beasts of burden.
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Since then, donkeys have carried building stones, food, trade goods, ammunition and people, including Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem on the day Christians celebrate as Palm Sunday.
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"They were going on donkeys, through the mountains," said Ofra Bengio, a pre-eminent historian of the Kurds and professor emerita at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center.
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"I was always like, 'Oh, my God, everyone at home is at camp, and I'm here with the donkeys and the sheep and the wild goats,'" she recalls.
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Cesar has a few donkeys on the property from its days as a working ranch, and it gave me the chance to teach the Whisperer a little something.
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In a grass valley framed by low-lying hills, Mr. Baird's pastures are filled with his small herd of buffalo and a few pens of horses and donkeys.
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"Slaughtering a donkey that's done milling" is a Chinese saying for when a valuable person is demeaned, and old donkeys were indeed often used for their meat and hides.
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No, not the kind of chatbots that have been around for donkeys' years, adding robotic interjections to irreverent chatrooms when the Internet was a niche playground just for nerds.
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Campaigners say the action threatens the world's donkey population, though it is hard to see how, given that there were 44m donkeys in 2016 and their numbers are rising.
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But over the next few years, Stiert indeed ended up getting donkeys — 13 of them in fact: 10 miniatures, two standards and a zonkey (a hybrid donkey and zebra).
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Some of the gags work, like a scene where Bean steals a carriage and is pursued by guards on siren-wearing donkeys whose hee-haws provide the alarm sounds.
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This explains why 19th-century agrarian communities would want to skip May weddings, but nowadays, it's pretty unlikely you'd have a wedding right next to a bunch "amorous" donkeys.
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Photos and video of the 3,000-square-meter projection, which read "SOS" in the colors of the EU flag, was posted to Twitter by the "Led By Donkeys" group.
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Underscoring frustrations with the entire Algerian political system, protesters put signs on the heads of donkeys with the names of ruling party figures and a member of the opposition.
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Standing in the back of an open-air truck bed, we wind through paved and dirt roads, passing donkeys and wild agave plants that jut out of rocky hillsides.
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In the Eagle Ford's DeWitt county, some pumpjacks, the so-called nodding donkeys, sit idle, a possible sign that for some producers prices no longer even cover operating costs.
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News this week that eight donkeys had been jailed for four days for eating expensive saplings went viral in India, drawing a mix of ridicule and good-hearted laughs.
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Last summer, a private zoo in Cairo became a laughingstock after customers realized it had painted white stripes on donkeys in an effort to pass them off as zebras.
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" Mr. Farage whipped up the crowd with talk of the "treachery, duplicity of all of our political leaders" and Britain's humiliation as a country of "lions led by donkeys.
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Rick and Roger Pedretti are dairy farmers from Wisconsin who trailer their donkeys more than 1,000 miles every summer to compete as a tribute to their brother, Robert Pedretti.
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The arid setting seems ancient, maybe biblical: The ground is strewn with what look like jawbones, possibly of donkeys, like the one Samson used to slay a thousand Philistines.
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Donkeys and mules are one traditional mode of transport but PETA says they are forced to carry visitors and their luggage up steep hills when cable cars are available.
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Katherine Heigl might have chickens, donkeys, horses, dogs and two little girls at home in Utah, but she's added one more to her bustling brood: Her first son, Joshua Bishop.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii - The last 50 wild donkeys on Hawaii's Big Island will be rounded up, marking the final step in a six-year effort to get them in adoptive homes.
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He's led donkeys down the streets in Nairobi to symbolize the nation's fatigue with politics, and littered the roads with polystyrene babies to call-out the immaturity of Kenya's politicians.
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In Gaza, a zoo painted two donkeys to look like zebras in 2009 while another zoo was accused of putting stuffed animals on display because of a shortage of animals.
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Analysis also revealed stress on the bones that occurred when the donkeys were alive -- but not the kind of stress typically found in pack animals used for carrying heavy loads.
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"Donkeys were the first pack animal, the steam engines of their day in Africa and western Eurasia, but we know almost nothing about their use in eastern Asia," Marshall said.
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"Nowadays, we are no longer happy because our vehicles, our donkeys, are no longer here," said Katasi Moko, who was left with just one donkey after four others were stolen.
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Reports indicated that before the Huanan market closed, vendors there sold processed meats and live consumable animals, including chickens, donkeys, sheep, pigs, camels, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs, and snakes.
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Harrison sprints straight past me, a kid on a mission, but that mission, I realize with a jolt of panic, might involve those three mammoth donkeys at the paddock gate.
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Humans and Neanderthals, horses and donkeys, polar bears and brown bears, at least 16 different whales: Genetics are revealing that hybridization, though rare, may be more common than we think.
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Bullock's donation "will help the HSVC provide 24/7 care for the scores of horses, bulls, donkeys, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats and other pets evacuated from the fires," staff wrote.
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Before adoption, the donkeys must have a clean bill of health and the males must be castrated, which is an easier and less invasive process than spaying the females, he said.
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Environmentalists may cheer, but not donkeys—China also cut tariffs on imports of the animals' skins, which is likely to fuel demand for them as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.
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N'DJAMENA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a dusty alleyway in Chad's capital, veiled women sell peanuts laid out on handkerchiefs and children bring home firewood on donkeys, as if from another era.
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Not realizing that two of their donkeys had bred, the Toppings entered their barn one day in June 2017 to find newborn Tiny Tim, a mini donkey, lying on the floor.
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Cizhong spreads out from the church like the bottom half of a Chagall painting: donkeys wander the stone streets; ramshackle houses squat along alleyways; vineyards and rice paddies frame the view.
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The CLC expects that more horses, camels, donkeys, and other animals are likely to die due to the heat, and the organization is bracing for severe problems as global temperatures rise.
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Here she is a tawny adventuress with a butterscotch mane leading a brace of donkeys along a Sicilian dirt path in Steven Meisel's images for some long forgotten Dolce & Gabbana campaign.
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The two men rowed the pirogue from the mainland to a nearby island called Yga, where they borrowed five donkeys to transport the vaccines to the other side of the island.
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They were buried in a place of importance, "where the highest lords would be," said Fiona Marshall, an archaeologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the domestication of donkeys.
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There she meets a reclusive puppeteer, another guest, who is developing his next show, a political allegory about an insurrection of serfs, bats and donkeys against a corrupt king and queen.
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It might mean that people are getting their exams delivered on donkeys' backs or learning through TV. But the fact of the matter is that people are enrolled in higher education.
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More than 22.2,230 donkeys - 22000% of Kenya's population - have been slaughtered for skin and meat export in less than three years, according to the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO).
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It dates back to Gold Rush days, when lucky prospectors were said to have thrown their gear on their donkeys' backs and run to the nearest town to register their claims.
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Led by Donkeys also projected an interview with Boris Johnson, a top candidate to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, on the side of Big Ben where Johnson said he "wouldn't want to expose any Londoners to the unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump": The protests weren't just limited to Led by Donkeys, as Amnesty International also unfurled anti-Trump banners across London's Vauxhall Bridge over the Thames: Go deeper ... In photos: Trump's U.K. state visit
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Though people normally think of elephants and donkeys when they think of political animals, the bees could possibly represent a hive mentality or how we're all still stung by the election results.
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In the spirit of summer day trips, we've listed five art sites, from one of the longest murals in the world to an eccentric artist's retreat complete with donkeys and a llama.
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Now run by Jirayr's son, Alan, and his daughters, the compound is part artists refuge, where several artists have studios, and part working ranch with donkeys, horses, goats, chickens, and a llama.
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Because the organization Ms. Hauter represents just spent the past week placing fake poop under statues of donkeys throughout Philadelphia to protest the Democratic National Committee's rejection of their ban-fracking platform.
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The donkeys, which come in "a multitude of petite sizes and colors," need to be readied for rescue, but they are now just a phone call (and a flight to Arizona) away.
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"Cows, donkeys, goats, children, farmers and families are all competing for the same water," said Mkhize, 255, a small-scale vegetable farmer, sitting in the shade of a community produce-packing shelter.
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I can foresee years in which she goes skiing and hiking out west with Nana and Saba, and also visits her upstate grandparents' farm, where she'll get to know donkeys and sheep.
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In the second panel, pairs of donkeys, bears, leopards, lions, ostriches, humpbacked camels, elephants, sheep, goats, and snakes march to safety from the Great Flood, illustrating scenes from the book of Genesis.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With spiraling ethnic violence exposing more children in Mali to fatal diseases, health workers are using donkeys and boats to deliver life-saving vaccines, charities said on Wednesday.
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Neglected animals are prone to despair, and people who know donkeys told us the only thing likely to lift Sherman's drooping head and really bring him back to life was a job.
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Tourists visiting the island have often relied on donkeys to transport them from the shoreline to Santorini's main town, by way of the steep hills and through areas that vehicles cannot get through.
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She cares for my four nieces and nephews and also has a small farm of horses, llamas, goats, chickens, and donkeys, so it's easy for her to forget to take time for herself!
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"People say that animals have no voice, but in Washington, PETA depends on the voices of 'elephants,' 'donkeys,' and even those with no party mascot," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement.
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As a result, most of the "information" about what had fallen in — all of the attributes and properties of the things sucked in, whether elephants or donkeys, Volkswagens or Cadillacs — would be erased.
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The powwow has all the usual signifiers of Native American life: tepees, donkeys, women dressed in buckskin suits, men on folding chairs beating a large leather drum, vendors hawking dream catchers and geodes.
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While researching "Born to Run," I'd stumbled across a ragtag crew in the Rocky Mountains who kept alive an old miners' tradition of running alongside donkeys in races as long as 30 miles.
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Lines of lumbering yak, horses, donkeys, and Jokpe (the product of breeding a yak with cattle) carrying goods constantly pass us, alerting us with their presence by the jingling bells on their necks.
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Their benefactors may not be large in number (conference attendance was 77), but they are as fierce in their loyalty as donkeys are in defense of their territories (more about donkey fierceness later).
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Shepherds and farmers in the Palestinian territories and neighboring Israel, where the group also has a clinic, often use donkeys to guard sheep, pull produce-filled carts and transport supplies on their backs.
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"Donkeys are hardy and strong animals as well as gentle, and fill really important roles in everyday life for small farmers and traders carrying loads in many parts of the world," Marshall said.
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In an effort to safeguard against purchasing stolen donkeys, he added, Goldox requires its sellers to obtain two "no objection" documents signed by an on-site government meat inspector and a procurement officer.
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There, four years ago, porters strapped my family's Rollaboards awkwardly atop donkeys that we followed up a dusty path to the walled Kasbah, where 258 rooms and a private hamman ring the courtyard.
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At Nico Bio, there are donkeys, chickens, heat from solar panels, and water filtered by plants, but no Wi-Fi or cellphone signal, and unlike the rest of the farm stays, no pool.
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Ms. Novograd's agency regularly supplies horses and donkeys for the Metropolitan Opera, and Ms. Winship recently connected the American Museum of Natural History with a 600-pound bear for a promotional photo shoot.
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For instance, the skins of at least 3 million donkeys were sourced from outside China in 2016 to produce ejiao, a gelatin-based traditional drug, according to a report by The Donkey Sanctuary.
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Or consider "The Adoration of the Shepherds" (1579), with its determinedly odd, expansive composition: saints, shepherds, and donkeys surrounding the Christ Child and the Virgin beneath a heavenly burst of white figures above.
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At one health center serving some 53,000 people, there is just one latrine, no shower, and two donkeys that make 20 trips a day to transport water from a river 1.5 miles away.
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The American workers feel underappreciated, while their Chinese supervisors are reminded that they need praise: "Donkeys like to be touched in the direction their hair grows," a management coach says, "otherwise, they kick you".
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Ali found a degree of security in Diffa, a region of blazing hot sand dotted with sparse trees and donkeys, thanks to Adamu Moumouni, a stranger who took him in when he had nothing.
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CreditCreditRachel Nuwer NAIROBI, Kenya — "This is the spot," said Morris Njeru, gazing down at a tangled patch of farmland where he recently found the bloody corpses of David, Mukurino and Scratch — his last donkeys.
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"We have lost a lot of livestock - camels, goats, sheep and donkeys," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a buul in her village, where residents receive animal fodder and deworming treatment from GRASHO.
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Forget elephants and donkeys, David Letterman says our choice for President could come down to this ... do we want a wealthy man who eats like a pig, or one who eats like a bird?!?
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Running With Sherman In July 224, a shy 241-year-old named Lynzi Doke edged herself into a mob of very fit runners and very big donkeys on the main street of Fairplay, Colo.
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We're also introducing you to a CNN Hero who's made it his life's work to rescue donkeys, and we're showing you what a field of dreams looks like for the ultimate college football fan.
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Visitors don't come here for the land experience, although the food is good, the flamingos and wild donkeys are diverting, the mojitos are cold, and a few lovely sandy beaches are fine for sunbathing.
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Signs of that are written across Hawk Hill—where chickens, dogs, donkeys, guinea fowl, cattle, horses and a flock of sheep once roamed its fields, calling it a farm today would be a categorical misstatement.
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The protest, set up by the crowd-funded anti-Brexit group Led By Donkeys, appears to have taken place in the early hours of Wednesday morning, ahead of Johnson officially becoming Britain's new prime minister.
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Claiming that the number of overweight tourists from the U.K., U.S. and Russia have only continued to increase in recent years, Help the Santorini Donkeys charity is now calling for a weight restriction for riders.
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To entertain colleagues over dinner, he and other survivors said, an officer calling himself Hitler forced prisoners to act the roles of dogs, donkeys and cats, beating those who failed to bark or bray correctly.
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In summer, the farm is a teeming, arcadian slope of greenery, where donkeys graze amid wildflowers and white-blossoming olive trees, and meadows of jade-colored grapevines blanket the terrain up to the woodland's edge.
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Traders started to look elsewhere for hides, buying up such large numbers of animals that governments such as Niger and Burkina Faso banned the sale of donkeys to China due to environmental and economic problems.
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They chronicled their adventures in blog posts and YouTube videos, like the time donkeys overran their truck during a 2012 New Year's trip to the Bonaire island, or visiting Zion National Park two years later.
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When she phoned her parents to give them the news, she recalled, her father offered a bit of advice: "Tricia, don't take donkeys to the Kentucky Derby" — meaning that the best coaches recruited the top players.
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The ban is necessary because rampant slaughtering of donkeys has led to job loss in places where they are a centerpiece of life, Peter Munya, Cabinet secretary for the agriculture ministry said Monday in a statement.
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But growing Chinese demand for ejiao has led to a black market with gangs hired by skin-smuggling networks to steal donkeys, inciting anger in communities who depend on the animals for livelihoods, farming or transport.
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Like a cross between a Tesla and a wheelbarrow, donkeys are beasts of burden that can carry up to 403 pounds for more than two weeks in the mountains, while needing very little food or water.
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Another group, Led by Donkeys, anti-Brexiters that have carried out viral billboard campaigns, projected videos onto Big Ben Monday morning of former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson calling then-candidate Trump "unfit to hold office" in 2015.
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Here's my pitch: I'm gonna say that this is real because aren't, aren't there like donkeys and horses — isn't there something I... JL: You're just trying to think about which animals species have sex with each other.
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He worked slowly and devotedly, challenging his musicians to avoid practising or even knowing the melodies; he tasked producers with finding the sound of braying donkeys, or of raw meat being punched, to create an original soundscape.
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We can't travel like we had planned; it's hard to get a sitter for a donkey," Jody said of her unique pet, adding that "miniature donkeys are very sweet and loyal, but they are a lifetime commitment.
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APOSTOLOS ANDREAS, Cyprus, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Left behind by technology and cast aside during war, feral donkeys are munching their way to a revival on a remote peninsula in northeast Cyprus - and they are impossible to miss.
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METROPOLITAN An article in some editions last Sunday about the use of miniature donkeys as therapy animals in Ulster Park, N.Y., misstated the kind of cancer that Brittany Hill, a member of a donkey-walking group, has.
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Donkeys were first domesticated between 3,000 to 4,000 BC. They were used as pack animals for trash pickup in Eurasia, but thought to be largely overlooked for use in warfare, ceremonies or entertainment, according to the study.
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World Vision, whose catalog includes farm animals that can be purchased for indigent families — you can make the donation in honor of someone — will feature living gifts for children to pet: goats, donkeys, sheep, rabbits and chickens.
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Out of a global population of 44 million, around 1.8 million donkeys are slaughtered per year to produce ejiao, according to a report published last year by the Donkey Sanctuary, a nonprofit based in the United Kingdom.
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Footage from local TV outlets showed the donkeys, in the town of Orai in Uttar Pradesh State, plodding out of a dingy jail in single file with their heads bowed, much like the classic police perp walk.
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And on this loom, Susanna made everything the family needed, from bedcovers, blankets and towels to the wool textiles laid atop wood chests and the saddlebags slung over the backs of donkeys or men to transport things.
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When I visited the station online (#219), I found a series of short news items about a Gaza zoo that painted their donkeys to look like zebras after they died of neglect in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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Santa Monica, with the exception of rent-controlled sliver Pico, is traditionally well-heeled and white; Venice, the "Slum by the Sea," once attracted nodding donkeys to its oil-rich beaches and nodding bohemians to its cheap rents.
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Since 2017, McKann has been saving animals from hurricanes, plucking chickens and guinea fowl trapped in cages and loading up trucks full of pigs, donkeys, and cows left behind in flooded farms during storms like Harvey and Florence.
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The group has spent about $200,000 to get more than 450 donkeys in homes, including 120 that were flown to California in 2011 and found homes through Eagle-Eye Sanctuary Foundation and Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, Gibson said.
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"Cali has spent the past two months learning the ropes from a family of ranch dogs and has already shown promise in her engagement with horses, donkeys, goats, sheep and chickens," the governor's office said in the announcement.
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Both houses of Congress agreed to pass the National Bison Legacy Act last week, and I chuckled a bit at the thought of the American bison (rather than elephants and donkeys) finally horning in on our national consciousness.
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Sacking off chivalry is totally crucial – and not just because it's 2016 and tbh there's no need for a man to walk on the traffic side of the pavement to shield you from mud kicked up by donkeys.
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The supplements in question include everything from sketchy sexual enhancement pills with donkeys and roosters printed on the packaging that you can find at bodegas, and more aesthetically pleasing pills that are now routinely hawked via Instagram marketing.
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The rare and vibrant 1912 gouache, "Two Blue Donkeys — Horse and Donkey" by the short-lived German Expressionist artist Franz Marc was instead the night's other main success, selling for £4.1 million, more than double its high estimate.
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In the past week, Patrick Mckann, a 42-year-old Virginia horse trainer, said he and his friends have rescued six horses, two donkeys, around 14 guinea fowl and lots of chickens threatened by the disaster's encroaching waters.
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David Perdue (R-Ga.), made his name in the GOP field with a zany ad featuring a mess of flustered elephants and donkeys screeching and knocking over podiums — a symbol of what Moody sees as dysfunction in Washington.
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The Los Angeles County animal shelter said it was hosting 184 pets including llamas, donkeys and horses while reports said 29 horses were burned to death on Tuesday at a ranch in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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In Bazwaia, recaptured by Iraqi troops a day earlier, about a dozen civilians could be seen coming out of the village, waving white flags and bringing with them their livestock — about 200 sheep and a few cows and donkeys.
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"Donkeys can still be forced to carry a person weighing 15 stone 10 pounds (100 kilograms) up more than 500 steep steps four to five times a day," PETA UK director of international programs, Mimi Bekhechi, told the outlet.
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When in Ireland, they also make sure to maintain "some alone time," as Ms. Jacobs put it, starting with breakfast every morning together, but not before they feed their cat and their dog, and their goats, donkeys and hens.
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With just under 5 million skins needed ever year for ejiao production, the industry would need more than half the world's current donkeys over the next five years to meet demand, according to a report from The Donkey Sanctuary.
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The ALICE Detector, with the LHC pipe encased in concrete (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum)GENEVA, SWITZERLAND— Hiding in the suburbs behind trees and a meadow with furry brown donkeys is a warehouse with an elevator that only visits negative floors.
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In the Disney film (only the second full-length animated film made by the company), Pinocchio goes to "Pleasure Island," a place where boys can eat, drink, and be merry to their heart's content… until they are turned into labor donkeys.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters plowed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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And in terms of what lies in store for this baby donkey, after Animal Services treated the animal's wounds and fed it milk from a bottle, she's already been fostered by veterinarian Sharon Gonzales, who already fosters two other donkeys.
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Emirzade said there was concern about the impact of such a large population of donkeys in the area, partly because their droppings make the ground more fertile and could crowd out rare native plants that thrive in poor, sandy soil.
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His view is of a tranquil sea, boats bobbing in the breeze as fishermen back from pre-dawn catches serve waiting customers while women in black buibuis or shawls, men in long white kanzu robes, and donkeys bussle along the seafront.
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I spent three days and two nights watching the cane burn on the Rio Grande, where licks of flame stretching 10 stories shoot into the air in an otherworldly landscape of limestone canyons, red-tailed hawks and village dogs and donkeys.
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The pronouncement, issued by the Bureau of Land Management, followed a public outcry over an advisory board's recommendation on Friday that the agency kill or sell all of the 45,000 horses and donkeys in its custody that cannot be adopted.
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My walk also took me through the once-famous Victorian Vauxhall pleasure gardens and its adjoining blink-and-you-miss-it Vauxhall City Farm with its ducks, chickens, rabbits, parakeets, horses, donkeys, goats, alpacas, sheep and one very large pig.
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"Hey @realDonaldTrump, we read the story about the sailors on a US warship being ordered to hide from you because you're triggered by the name on their hats," Led By Donkeys, a progressive, anti-Brexit activist group posted on Twitter.
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When we were children, she dutifully dragged my sister and me to the Lutheran church in Broomall, Pa., where we sat in scratchy clothes, listening to stories of talking donkeys, parting seas, multitudes being fed with a single loaf of bread.
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"Donkeys are being stolen and either slaughtered in the bush or transported in a very bad way, without proper papers or public health standards," said a Kenyan veterinary officer who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals from government superiors.
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Because of this, Lu Donglin, Goldox's director, announced in October that the abattoir would begin issuing checks that take three days to clear, allowing the company time to recoup payments in the event that stolen donkeys are reclaimed by villagers.
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Cruelty complaints filed by the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals — including allegations that donkeys were kept for days in the sun and rain without sustenance — led the government to shut down Star Brilliant for a month.
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Crowdfunded campaign group Led By Donkeys released helicopter footage showing a tractor putting the finishing touches on 40-metre (130-foot) high letters ploughed into a field belonging to an anti-Brexit farmer in the county of Wiltshire in southwest England.
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Early written drafts of the Bible were the transcribed pontifications of travelling "storytellers," who tromped from village to village in floppy sandals, swatting at flies, sipping beads of dew from the undersides of donkeys, and fighting dogs for scraps of raw meat.
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There is perhaps no place in Egypt that shows more passion for the English Premier League and the Champions League than Nagrig, a typical Nile delta village where water buffalos, cows and donkeys share dirt roads with cars, motorbikes and horse-drawn carts.
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The now 57-year-old shares his love of donkeys with the scores of people who visit Donkey Park on weekends through his 500-plus member Donkey Meetup, and through donkey therapy at nursing homes and schools for those with special needs.
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The lousy meal couldn't distract from the beauty of the surroundings, and I walked along an old Inca trail past evidence of other components of the local Aymara people's diet—terraced fields of potatoes and quinoa, along with plentiful sheep, pigs, and donkeys.
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Dotting hills and sand dunes and blocking country roads along the sparsely populated Karpass panhandle, the donkeys have thrived in the more than four decades since war split Cyprus in two, forcing huge population shifts and leaving them to their fend for themselves.
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Each morning we walked from our hotel past the botanic garden up the hill to one side and a pasture down the hill, where a few donkeys and horses were grazing, and entered the Città Alta from the northeast through Porta Sant'Alessandro.
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In the summer of 2012, in the small town of San Zeno di Montagna in northern Italy, my grandfather welcomed a new addition to the family: One of his donkeys gave birth to a female foal, which he kept as a pet.
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Should the world continue to pause in silence to honor the sacrifice and bravery of those who fought it on the ground — "lions led by donkeys," according to a phrase used to scorn the bumbling British officer class drawn from the upper crust?
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In another section included in the book's first printing (but not in the current e-book version), Ms. Abramson described how Mr. Morton traveled to the mountains outside Cartagena to report on a tribe that has a tradition of having sex with donkeys.
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Details: The protest group Led by Donkeys, known for its wave of guerrilla billboard protests against Brexit-supporting politicians, took the lead and focused their ire on the visiting president, projecting anti-Trump messaging on Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, and Big Ben.
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The post-9/11 U.S. bombing campaign was winding down, and Bronstein pointed her camera at people fleeing war: a boy walking his three donkeys past rows of refugee tents, a man desperately clutching a bag of rice, a beggar missing his left leg.
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In the spirit of summer day trips, we've listed five art sites — from one of the longest murals in the world, to an eccentric artist's retreat complete with donkeys and a llama — that show that worthwhile art experiences aren't limited to the city center.
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Each year, Strictly Comes Dancing rolls into Blackpool, and portrays the town like some magical, illuminated jive city, where celebrities and locals alike quickstep and tenderfoot along the famous beaches, chewing rock, feeding donkeys and cheering on the Wurlitzer organ sounds that fill the air.
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"He's very conscientious about his work," Cline tells PEOPLE of Frazee, a farrier who, at least twice a year, arrived to trim and care for the hooves of the donkeys that roam free in the historic former gold mining camp near the base of Pike's Peak.
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Until these hurdles are overcome, if they ever can be, then the vast majority of the 4.8m donkeys slaughtered each year for the production of ejiao will continue to be sourced from countries where they provide a sustainable living for millions of vulnerable communities and families.
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The name MeerKAT means "More KAT," a follow up to KAT 2110, the Karoo Array Telescope of seven antennas—although real meerkats do lurk around the remote site, sharing the space with wild donkeys, horses, snakes, scorpions and kudus, moose-sized mammals with long, spiraling antlers.
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In addition to the villa built on to the original stone tower, the property includes a grove of 200 olive trees and a 1,000-year-old olive oil mill, which has the original millstone and deep grooves worn into the stone walls by toiling donkeys' flanks.
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Mr. Chesebe explained that the slaughterhouse also limits its purchases of dried skins to those sold by Turkana people — because, he said, "everyone knows that only Turkana eat donkeys" — and to fresh skins from sellers who claim their animals died on the way to the abattoir.
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An online petition was also created, which claimed the donkeys were "forced to stand around in the sun in their own feces" and were whipped by the farmers to speed up while carrying "lazy" tourists who can allegedly walk the 30-minute trip or take a cable car.
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NICE, France, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Dogs, cats, donkeys and sheep went to church in the French city of Nice on Sunday, brought by their owners to be blessed as part of a mass celebrating the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology.
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I'm sure Tanya is right that every creature has its own quirks and personality traits, but there's one thing that all of us — dogs and donkeys, humans and animals alike — have in common: We all want to feel so surrounded by family, we're ready to yodel like Refried.
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The marvelous Bone Garden is "an open-air curiosity cabinet" with the bleached skulls, ribs, tibias and femurs of donkeys, goats, rabbits, sheep, cats and dogs nailed to tree trunks; garlands of jawbones and fringes of vertebrae are draped over branches, and there's a totem pole for dancing around.
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A few days ago, PETA's president Ingrid Newkirk used an op-ed in USA Today to protest over the "thousands of reindeer, donkeys, camels, horses and other conscripted animals who will now be forced to give rides or reduced to serving as live ornaments in confusing and disorienting holiday pageantry".
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Licensing of donkey slaughterhouses in Kenya, which exports donkey meat and skin, was seen as way for the Kenyan government to create job opportunities and increase the commercial value of donkeys, according to data from Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization and The Brooke East Africa, a donkey advocacy group.
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In the case of this 2019 coronavirus outbreak, reports state that most of the first group of patients hospitalized were workers or customers at a local seafood wholesale market which also sold processed meats and live consumable animals including poultry, donkeys, sheep, pigs, camels, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs, and reptiles.
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In the case of this 2019 coronavirus outbreak, reports state that most of the first group of patients hospitalized were workers or customers at a local seafood wholesale market which also sold processed meats and live consumable animals including poultry, donkeys, sheep, pigs, camels, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs and reptiles.
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There, above a boisterous strip lined with bars, souvenir shops and "zonkeys" — donkeys painted with stripes to resemble zebras, something of a TJ mascot — we found a sleek nine-room respite filled with retro design references: vintage suitcases, neon signs, a chandelier made from tennis rackets and a painting of Pancho Villa.
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