Donkeys can interbreed with other members of the Equidae family, and are commonly interbred with horses.

Donkeys are quite commonly ridden, mainly by young men and usually without a saddle.

Donkeys have a notorious reputation for stubbornness, but this has been attributed to a much stronger sense of " self preservation " than exhibited by horses.

Donkeys were probably first domesticated by pastoral people in Nubia, and they supplanted the ox as the chief pack animal of that culture.

originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.

French was also ridiculed by Alan Clark ( who called him " a weak-willed man of medium height ") in the widely-read The Donkeys ( 1961 ).

* Donkeys ' Years ( 2006 ) by Michael Frayn at the Comedy Theatre, London as Quine

The Donkeys are French ; Peppa is introduced to Delphine by Madame Gazelle through a Pen Pals scheme.

Donkeys are loaded with ore bags.

* Peasants with Donkeys, London

He has performed or toured with Honeyboy Edwards, Mike Bones, Band of Horses, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, White Magic, Cat Power, The Anomonon, Bonnie ' Prince ' Billy, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Girls, Sleepy Doug Shaw, Beach House, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn and John, Papercuts, Fiery Furnaces, José González, The Shins, Iron and Wine, Arboretum, Deerhoof, The Walkmen, John Webster Johns, Lightspeed Champion, The Donkeys, OXES, Gang Gang Dance, Convalescent Surprise, Frank Fairfield, Michael Hurley, Jana Hunter, Lower Dens, Thurston Moore, and Mt.

Donkeys, mules, and horses are also useful.

Donkeys, which numbered over 400 in 1972, were down to just 20 individuals in 2005.

Donkeys, on the other hand are widely used as pack animals in all parts of the county.

* The House of Donkeys ( radio play ), broadcast, 1965.

Donkeys of Solsona, hung in the tower bell.

Donkeys vary considerably in size, depending on breed and management.

Donkeys are adapted to marginal desert lands.

Donkeys have large ears, which may pick up more distant sounds, and may help cool the donkey's blood.

Donkeys, bicycles, and water taxis provide public transportation.

* Competing in the men's division III club level bracket, the Mendocino Steam Donkeys rugby union team, based in the Ukiah area are the first official NCRFU team in the county.

Michael Frayn's 1977 play Donkeys ' Years is a classic bedroom farce ; Frayn parodied the genre in his 1982 play Noises Off via its play-within-the-play, " Nothing On.

Animals kept in the Kid's Farm include Alpacas, Ossabaw Island Hogs, Silver Fox Rabbits, Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys.

In 2006 and 2010, Scarborough won a Gold Award at the Britain in Bloom ceremony in the ' Large Coastal ' category, and the best resort for Beach Donkeys, in 2009.

Clark's first book, The Donkeys ( 1961 ), was a revisionist history of the British Expeditionary Force's campaigns at the beginning of World War I.

This invention has provided a major opportunity for critics of " The Donkeys " to condemn the work.

On publication, The Donkeys received very supportive comments from Lord Beaverbrook, who recommended the work to Winston Churchill, and The Times printed a positive review.

On the other end of the beam, there is a curved metal box called a Horse Head or Donkeys Head, so named due to its appearance.

An area aimed primarily at children and housing domesticated livestock such as Turkeys, Llamas, Alpacas, Cows, Silky Chickens, Horses, Donkeys and Goats, most of which are free-roaming.

There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.

`` Do you feel you can stand up to the next legislative session and defend this contract ''??

Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).

Some believe that Luke ’ s gospel can be seen to mirror the Jewish apologetic literature of the time which served to “ defend Jews against misunderstanding and persecution .” Acts is said to be a:

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Herbivores eat plants, but plants can also defend themselves.

But how can we defend labour-notes, this new form of wagedom, when we admit that houses, fields, and factories will no longer be private property, and that they will belong to the commune or the nation?

Pelton added " our strategy is to defend and protect our current markets while investing in products and services to secure our future, but we can do this only if we succeed in restructuring our processes and reducing our costs.

In favor of the supposition that Eusebius changed his opinion from deference to the Count of Anjou, the decided opponent of Berengar and his doctrine, it can be adduced that he did not defend Berengar against the hostilities of the court, and that for a long time he sided with this violent prince.

Defense Minister Wardak explained that " what we are asking to acquire is just the ability to defend ourselves, and also to be relevant in the future so that our friends and allies can count on us to participate in peacekeeping and other operations of mutual interest.

The ACU is upgradable and can defend itself.

There is no minimum size to militia, and a solitary act of defense, including self-defense, can be thought of as one person calling up himself to defend the community, represented by himself or others, and to enforce the law.

The Barrayarans, with their single wormhole to defend and broadly habitable planet, both need and can afford a militaristic society with a certain amount of internal competition as large families spread out into newly terraformed regions.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, on the other hand, can be best thought of as the philosophical reflections of an emperor divided between his philosophical aspirations and the duty he felt to defend the Roman Empire from its external enemies through his various military campaigns.

Stich doesn't defend any alternative theory of knowledge or justification, but instead argues that all accounts of normative epistemic terms are culturally biased and instead only a pragmatic account can be given.

If they can no longer flee, they stand on their hind legs to make themselves appear larger and use the sharp claws on their front paws to defend themselves.

A dominant male must stay in his territory to defend it, which can mean months without eating, living on his store of blubber.

* In the video game Daleks ( published for operating systems of the early 1980s ), the Doctor can use the sonic screwdriver to teleport and to defend himself against the Daleks.

An attempt to defend a system based on propositional meaning for semantic underspecification can be found in the generative lexicon model of James Pustejovsky, who extends contextual operations ( based on type shifting ) into the lexicon.

As it appears that the defenses and theodicies which might allow the theist to resist the problem of evil can be inverted and used to defend belief in the omnimalevolent being, this suggests that we should draw similar conclusions about the success of these defensive strategies.

Because they are tasked to defend their hives and food stores, bees synthesize and employ an acidic venom ( apitoxin ) to cause pain in those that they sting, whereas wasps use a chemically different venom designed to paralyze prey, so it can be stored alive in the food chambers of their young.

In February 2010 APA's Council of Representatives voted to amend the association's Code of Ethics to make clear that its standards can never be interpreted to justify or defend violating human rights.

Black can defend forever

Females ' home ranges can be very large and a territory including several females ' ranges is impossible to defend.