Donkeys were first domesticated around 3000 B.C, probably in Egypt or Mesopotamia, and have spread around the world. They continue to fill important roles in many places today. While domesticated species are increasing in numbers, the African wild donkey and another relative, the Onager, are endangered. As "beasts of burden" and companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia.
CHARACTERISTICS: Donkeys vary considerably in size, depending on breed and management. Donkeys live of 30 to 50 years.
CHARACTERISTICS: Donkeys vary considerably in size, depending on breed and management. Donkeys live of 30 to 50 years.Donkeys are adapted to marginal desert lands, and have many traits that are unique to the species as. Wild donkeys live separated from each other. Donkeys have a very loud lenguage, which help keep in contact with other donkeys over the wide spaces ("bray"), which can be heard for over three kilometers. Donkeys have larger ears than horses. Their longer ears may pick up more distant sounds.
BREEDING:
BREEDING: Female are normally pregnant for about 12 months, though the gestation period varies from 11 to almost 14 months female usually give birth to a single foal.
NUTRITION: Donkeys can break down near-inedible vegetation and extract moisture from food . Donkeys need smaller amounts of feed. Donkeys are ervivorous, namely, eat all kinds of vegetables.
HISTORY: The ancestors of the modern donkey are the Nubian and Somalian subspecies of African wild ass. Remains of domestic donkeys dating to the fourth millennium BC have been found in Ma'adi in Lower Egypt, and it is believed that the domestication of the donkey was accomplished long after the domestication of cattle, sheep and goats. Donkeys were probably first domesticated by pastoral people in Nubia, and they supplanted the ox as the chief pack animal of that culture. The domestication of donkeys were vital in the development of long-distance trade across Egypto. 
For over 6,000 years, the donkey was domesticated, used as a beast of burden. Because of transport and mechanization of agriculture donkeys are disappearing. Dinsminuido in a year over a million.
In Spain, the ancient tradition of using donkeys. Basically as a tool in the field, transporting passengers or goods by our difficult and mountainous geography Today it is occasionally found in these tasks, as they have been replaced by machines.
Traditional uses:
-Transportation herds
-Farming.
-Transportation (fuel, water, rocks, grass, ...)
-Transport by car.
-Spin the wheels of the mills and water wheels.
-Transport of light artillery.
Current uses:
-Breeders who use them for nature walks, hiking
-Therapies for people physical or mental disabilities.
-Attractions at fairs
3 comments:
Hello Andreita,
It's surprising the distance donkeys are able to hear and bray!!!! I was also surprised by the 14 months of pregnancy, poor females!
Do you know if here in Galicia farmers are still using them? Are there many donkeys left in Galicia? and in Spain? Are they used for the same things you say in your post?
Thank you
Galicia is running out of donkeys, are entering danger of extinction.Of donkeys and are not covered either statistics.los últimos registros, se refería a España, fue en 1999, había 55.000 burros.rehabilitation center donkey Orensano old, abandoned and abused, called Andrea, say in Galicia there is no updated census of donkeys, but at the end of the 90 had nearly some 26,000 donkeys in Galicia and is now should be about 5,000.
But in some litle towns if they are still used as beasts of burden, but much more for grass, and livestock.
Hello again,
I suppose your "translator" has mixed up Spanish and English, don't you think?
I see the amount of donkeys is decreasing in Galicia, it's a pity!
Thanks
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