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Donkeys belong to the odd-toed ungulates (horse, tapir and rhino families), also called the perissodactyls. This group, in turn, is related to the elephants and the sub-ungulates (sirenians and hyraxes). The horse family itself is a genus called Equus and the Linnaean name for the donkey is E. asinus. The closest relatives to the horses are the tapirs, which the late Barbara Woodhouse described as "prehistoric horses".

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