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Ass You Like It – Brits Help Delhi Donkeys - 10th March, 2010
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Holly Williams, Sky correspondent
Two British pensioners have devoted their lives to rescuing the “slumdog donkeys” of Delhi and even have an ambulance for the animals.

In India’s capital, poverty is a trap that ensnares hundreds of thousands of people.
Many of them live in illegally-built shanty towns where raw sewage flows in the street. Malnourishment and disease [...]


Solve the coyote problem – get a donkey. - 1st March, 2010
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Daytime coyote sightings have been on the rise in Memphis and the surrounding areas, and cattle owners all over northern Mississippi and western Tennessee have reported losing calves at an alarming rate.
In addition to his one baby buffalo, Fitch has lost 25 young cows during the past 12 months at a cost [...]


Burros Can Do More Than Work as Pack Animals - 16th February, 2010
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Experts say small donkeys can make good protectors of sheep and goats. Just don’t let them get fat. Transcript of radio broadcast.
15 February 2010
 

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
 

 

 
 
A burro is a small donkey. Another way that people say it is BOOR-oh. The name comes from Spanish and, before that, from a Latin [...]


Animal-drawn vehicles are getting popular - 10th February, 2010
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Uzbekistan: the transport market of Samarqand

09.02.2010 10:05 msk
Ferghana.Ru

Until recently such vehicles could be occasionally observed in the older part of Samarqand. It seemed like last-century vehicles were totally replaced by modern cars. Paradoxically, the animal-drawn transport is seeing its renaissance. The wood-made vehicles, drawn by donkeys, can be observed throughout Samarqand. In the era of nano-technologies [...]