Unfortunately, The donkeys are still the victim of abuse and exploitation worldwide. In Spain, omitting basic care and abandonment or lack of identification in animals are serious problems, in addition to the lack of conscience About their basic needs and care.
Nivel Global, The biggest threat to this animal is the Chinese requirement of a product derived from the skin of donkeys, the Ejiao, which is like a traditional Chinese remedy. This question is The population of donkeys decimate in Asia and Africa Due to jumps and boundaries.
World Donkey Day 2025
Today is the World Donkey Day 2025an ephemeris that is commemorated each May 8 Thanks to the maker: Alexander Aretz, as a way to accompany and celebrate these horses that man accompany and celebrate.
There World Donkey Day 2025We remember this It is an intelligent, soft and quiet animalIt’s actually particularly affectionate and very pious of their masters. He is a fan of the outdoors and the social interactions that he cannot do without.
Origin of the donkey
The donkey has its origins in the Eohippusan animal less than 50 cm long that lived in the forests of North -America 60 million years ago. The evolution He did it to grow And the next kind was the Mesohip That was around the metro, which was later distracted in the Mérychippus that was higher than 130 cm.
The latter took over from the evolution that adapted to the plains: their teeth were adjusted to graze in the grass and their field of vision increased to control the predators.
The stony terrain ensured that the fingers disappeared from the feet for a single helmet. Less than a million years ago, Evolution reached the EquusThe common ancestor of horses, ponies, zebras and donkeys.
The donkey of Nubia was probably the first domestic domestic race of man in Bass Egypt about 4000 years before Christ. The donkeys of Europe would be descendants of these donkeys introduced by the Etruscans in Italy and were developed by the Greeks and Romans in South Europe.
From there, the donkey conquered the whole of Europe. In the 16th century, the Spaniards arrived on the American continent accompanied by their donkeys, who quickly adapted to the ruling circumstances and spread.
The donkey has been raised for food purposes (meat and milk), as an animal of drawers and transport of people and merchandise and ultimately as a human leisure partner, because it is a beautiful operating animal.
Physical characteristics of donkey
The donkey has very specific dimensions from the horses family. If we compare it to the horse, it has a wider body and limbs due to a stronger bone structure. His neck is also firmer and his biggest head, in relation to his body.
His tail is shorter and more on that of his ancestors. Your seal, are your Long and recognizable ears That dominates their impressive head head. Like the horse or the pony, He has large and expressive eyes and broad nostrils.
Only in Europe there are 17 breeds of recognized donkeys and each of them offers its own physical characteristics. It is therefore possible to see miniature donkeys less than 70 cm high, while others cross more than 150 cm on the cross. They always have brown eyes, except the donkeys of an ivory mutation with blue eyes.
Just like horses and ponies, donkeys benefit from a field of vision of 340 °. His evolution as a prey forced genetics to place his eyes on both sides of the head to prevent a predator from surprising him: that is why his only blind points are: his body, the tip of his nose and the back of his tail.
And the treatment of donkey?
This animal is used for exhaustion to wear heavy loadsThanks to its pleasant character and its ability to survive. The myths’ catalogized as’ stupid ‘, and in fact the donkey epitheton indicated ignorant or slow in learning. Nothing is further from the truth.
All these problems have been solved over the years, every time there are fewer donkeys that are the victims of the Animal abuse Which implies its use as a load or mounting file.
And it is acknowledged that this soft animal has great intelligence and sensitivity. There World Donkey Day 2025 It is important to recognize their historical value, to help their long way through people and their deserved future of peace and respect.