When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only ‘Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,’ and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer. On Sundays there was no work. Breakfast was an hour later than usual,...
Donkeys like these are descendants of the African wild ass and they're related to horses and zebras. Carlos Sanchez Pereyra/Getty Images We may use the words interchangeably, but donkey, jackass, burro and mule aren't really synonyms. Each term does relate to a donkey, but a jackass ...
Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys. 出自-2017年6月听力原文 Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship. 出自-2017年6月听力原文 Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia...
Yohannes walks beside a pair of donkeys that are pulling a two-wheeled cart. They arrive at the agricultural town of Awassa where Yohannes opens the sides of the cart to display, not the usual vegetables or tools, but children’s books. This is the Donkey Mobile Library, the first of ...
asked the donkeys. “I will paint you and no one will know you are donkeys,” said the man. The man went off to find some paint and he returned in just a matter of minutes. He had two pots of paints. One pot was filled with white paint, and the other black paint. The old man...
The poitou donkey is a unique creature - after centuries of breeding these massive, dreadlocked donkeys for their size and strength, their popularity began to dwindle. Machines replaced animals for farm work and there was less need for them, and in 1977, there were less than 50 remaining. No...
Horses, donkeys, mules, and water buffaloes were all used for farm work. With today’s technological developments, the of machines has largely replaced animals in farm work. These machines can carry out tasks such as ploughing and planting, fertilising and irrigating, harvesting, and managing ...
coli by some authors, but others consider other domestic mammals (camels, donkeys, sheep and goats) as the reservoirs of greatest importance to human health (Ponce-Gordo and Jirků-Pomajbíková, 2018). If parasite identification in human infections is based only on trophozoite and/or cyst ...
82 José-Luis Mendívil-Giró(and in some sense arbitrary)—let us think of horses and donkeys, or of Spanish and Portuguese (order irrelevant). In the case of species, the capacity to interbreed and produce fertile offspring depends on a very pronounced phenotypic similarity between two individu...
They were fairly tolerant of humans, and demonstrated that 4 feet is really not high enough for a deer fence, by jumping over it!! As we left, the sun came out, so we decided to drive north across the snow road high in the Cairngorms, past Lecht ski area. The top was Windy, wild...