Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time

Science Daily ^ | 3-13-2008 | Washington University in St. Louis

[DannyTN]

Careful where you give that jump command.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

General Sherman tamed a few in Georgia, a hundred-some years ago.

I wonder what his secret was?

[blam]

"Sooooo, it hadn’t been posted, eh? :’) Equus sworn it hadn’t."

AHEM

How Wild Asses Became Donkeys Of The Pharaohs
(3-10-2008)

[seowulf]

Oh. We’re talking about donkeys, not monkeys.

I suppose you could train a donkey to collect some coin and find an old, use Hammond organ somewhere. Now that would be an act I'd watch.

[Leo Carpathian]

The previously unpublished research was presented in "Domestication of the Donkey: New Data on Timing, Process and Indicators" in the March 10 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Pheeew! Whata a relief! I can sleep well now.

[Ghengis]

The Doors did the organ thing with a donkey. Just wanted to bring this back on topic.

[Migraine]

Oh. We’re talking about donkeys, not monkeys. Never mind.

Glad you mentioned that. I was thinking of a bumper sticker for this year's campaign (if Baraq and the Nominatrix got on the same nightmare ticket):

BUY ONE SURRENDER MONKEY, GET ONE FREE

However, I realized I'd probably go to prison for that one, given the present atmosphere of political sensitivity. Soooo, I thought why not:

BUY ONE SURRENDER DONKEY, GET ONE FREE

The finishing touch would be the red-circle-slash logo over the 'D' on 'donkey'. Think that might be a bumper sticker that would stick?

[norton]

No sarcasm here:
I'm really sorry that so many fail to see significance in something as fundamental as (a) domesticating the wild ass, something so significant as (b) the world's first nation state, something so extraordinary as (c) royal funerary sites for - donkeys - or (d) something as neat as "all of the above".

I love the humor that exists within FR, but wonder sometimes about it's wholesale application.

Thanks Blam, for an interesting and constructive post.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Maybe they were feral, rather than wild per se. :’)

[Judith Anne]

What you said, me too.

[LS]

Carrots.

[coconutt2000]

Maybe the guy who owned all the donkeys didn’t want his family to have them after he passed on...

Much like a rich guy who gives away all his wealth when he dies to keep it out of the hands of his spoiled, adult children.