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Are there donkeys in Australia

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

There are donkey's native to Australia, yes but the term 'burro' typically refers to a type of wild donkey that lives specifically in the southwestern United States and parts of Mexico.

(The question mentions "in Australia"), thus, the change in the question.

Feral donkeys in Australia (and elsewhere) are donkey(scientific name Equus asinus) which escaped from captivity, and are living and breeding in the wild. Donkeys originated in africaand also parts of asia. They are a part of the equidae-1family. While donkeys display many horse-likecharacteristics, they are more closely related to african-wild-ass-1.

Donkeys were brought to australiafrom 1866 for use as pack and haulage animals.Answers.comUp until that point, the Australians had been using the horseas their main mode of transportation. However, problems arose when the horses used in transportation began to become sickened by some of the native poisonous plant. When donkeys proved to be invulnerable to the plants that were making the horses sick, more donkeys were brought in. Escape was common because of the lack of fences, and there were reported herds of donkeys by the 1920s. In western Australia in 1949, there were enough donkeys for them to officially be declared a pest.Answers.comThere were almost 5 million feral donkeys in Australia in 2005.Answers.com

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