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

He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys ( 1961 ), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War !.

Donkeys and wild equids have different numbers of chromosomes.

* Ari Berman, writer for The Nation and author of Herding 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.

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

Bastedo has written a memoir, Beware Dobermanns, Donkeys and Ducks, as well as several books on caring for cats and dogs.

He was also nominated for playing Christopher Headingley in a revival of Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys ' Years at the Comedy Theatre.

At the same time, he became established as a lyricist for cabaret shows and his own reviews ( including Två åsnor ( A Pair of Donkeys ) which was staged in Gothenburg in 1957 ).

After failing to make an impact in the NRL after six seasons, he moved to play for the French rugby league team Salanque Meditérrannée PIA XIII ( also known as the Pia Donkeys ) following the conclusion of the 2008 NRL season.

Nick also spent the 2008 / 09 season playing in France for the Pia Burro ( Donkeys )

The club has created some great sportsmen including Mark Foley, the hero of the 1990 All-Ireland Hurling championship who scored an unprecedented 2-7 from play against the All-Ireland champions ( Tipperary ) in the " Donkeys Don't Win Derbies " Munster Final in Thurles.

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

Donkeys can defend themselves by biting, striking with the front hooves or kicking with the hind legs.

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, mules, and horses are also useful.

During the plantation era, Diego Garcia was home to large herds of Sicilian Donkeys ( Equus asinus ), dozens of horses ( Equus caballus ), hundreds of dogs ( Canis familiaris ) and house cats ( Felis catus ).

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

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, 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.

Donkeys are loaded with ore bags.

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.

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.

The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.

Even worse, the attempts have instead often created psychopathic supervillains of which Captain America's 1950s imitator and Nuke are the most notorious examples.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

By late 1166, and the birth of her final child, however, Henry's notorious affair with Rosamund Clifford had become known, and her marriage to Henry appears to have become terminally strained.

Doom was and remains notorious for its high levels of violence, gore, and satanic imagery, which have generated much controversy from a broad range of groups.

Sartre was a notorious chain smoker, which could also have contributed to the deterioration of his health.

These drugs have a high potential for abuse and dependence and were notorious for being widely abused and sought after by drug addicts in the 1970s.

Similarly, Nostradamus's notorious ' 1999 ' prophecy at X. 72 ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ) describes no event that commentators have succeeding in identifying either before or since, other than by dint of twisting the words to fit whichever of the many contradictory happenings they are keen to claim as ' hits '.

Peacekeeping forces have been successful in improving the country's overall security conditions, including brokering the surrender of a notorious warlord Harold Keke in August 2003.

Elections have been cleaner, without the rampant impersonation and vote-rigging which characterised the 1982 Presidential Election, the notorious Referendum of the same year, the Presidential Election of 1988 and the General Election of 1989.

The skull-cup allegation may also have some history in relation with other Germanic tribes and Eurasian nomads, such as the Scythians and Pechenegs, and the vivid example of the Lombard Alboin, made notorious by Paul the Deacon's History.

** Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles ( his killers have not yet been identified ).

The media have sensationalized him with the sobriquet, " the Devil's advocate ", and he himself has contributed to his " notorious " public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving provocative replies in interviews.

When fishing with a float, the angler will want to have a disgorger ; Perch are notorious for swallowing the hook, and will need aid of a disgorger or forceps for unhooking.

Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being Jane Shore, and did not have a reputation for fidelity.

When Linda Evangelista mentioned to Vogue that " we don ’ t wake up for less than $ 10, 000 a day ", she may have been playfully pretending the role of an up-scale union representative, but the 1990 comment became the most notorious quote in modeling history.

A number of writers and artists have gained some notoriety from eccentric public performances while intoxicated ; Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas are particularly notorious in this respect.

Another related feature, often lamented by Serbs themselves, is disunity and discord ; as Slobodan Naumović puts it, " Disunity and discord have acquired in the Serbian popular imaginary a notorious, quasi-demiurgic status.

Although the purported eye witness accounts have recently been questioned as improbable, this event became a notorious symbol of Chinese madness, known as the Taiyuan Massacre.

The fact that Lewes has a Crown Court, and a prison, is reflected by the fact that many notorious people have been connected with the town.

Josephus himself, however, dates this event in the days of Alexander the Great, and though there is a notorious confusion in Josephus at this point, he may be right about the Gerizim temple dating from 332, and that may have been the date of the copying of their Pentateuch.

Blackmail was a substantial hit ; critical response was also positive — notorious curmudgeon Hugh Castle, for example, called it " perhaps the most intelligent mixture of sound and silence we have yet seen.

While the original version of Hook was said to have learned the pirating trade as the cabin boy of Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, this version learned it as the Midshipman of his elder brother, a notorious pirate who commanded a frigate called the Rake.