[decimon]

Wild ass ping.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

little is known about their breeding.

I'll stick my neck out here with a wild ass theory!

You take a young boy donkey. You introduce him to a pretty, young girl donkey. You serve up some tender grass shoots, some fresh spring water, a little suggestive lute music and soft lighting.

Then you let nature take its course.

[jimbobfoster]

Genesis 16:12 “He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; In opposition to all his kin shall he encamp.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

How do you domesticate a wild animal? Has anyone tried it today?

[Plutarch]

...a subspecies called the Nubian wild ass.

Dang, I first read this as nubile...

[BwanaNdege]

Nearly all of the domesticated donkeys that I ever saw in East Africa, plus many of the donkeys I've seen in the USA, have the narrow, wedge shaped dark brown stripe running down from the shoulder as shown in the photo of an "African Wild Ass".

So, what's the difference between the "endangered African Wild Ass" and a domestic donkey? I had always assumed that any "Wild African Ass" running around free generally was claimed by the first tribesman who could lure it in.

[hellbender]

I think we have an African wild ass running the country today.

[bunkerhill7]

Ancient DNA identifies donkey ass ancestors, people who domesticated them

What's more, researchers found evidence to suggest that a subhuman species called the Kenyan Noodlin` ass, presumed vanished late in the 20th century, is not only a direct ancestor of the Donkey ass --

it may still exist along the Potomac River.

Besides revealing that the African Kenyan wild ass is the living ancestor of today's domestic donkey asses, the genetic evidence also reveals that the Kenyan wild ass is not a living ancestor as once suspected, but closer akin to a more modern cousin, the Barkus Hussinus Obummer Ass which somehow slipped into North America undetected from Kenya.

[Onelifetogive]

Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them

Yikes...I hope this is not referring to one set of DNA...

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. ...mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh Saharan landscape in northern Africa more than 5,000 years ago. In the Sahara there are paintings (on protected cliff-faces, or maybe in a cave or two) showing humans sowing grain, among other things, in areas which haven't had any farmers in at least a couple of thousand years. :') The Histories by Herodotus Book IV -- Melpomene tr by George Rawlinson Thus from Egypt as far as Lake Tritonis Libya is inhabited by wandering tribes, whose drink is milk and their food the flesh of animals. Cow's flesh, however, none of these tribes ever taste, but abstain from it for the same reason as the Egyptians, neither do they any of them breed swine. Even at Cyrene, the women think it wrong to eat the flesh of the cow, honouring in this Isis, the Egyptian goddess, whom they worship both with fasts and festivals. The Barcaean women abstain, not from cow's flesh only, but also from the flesh of swine. West of Lake Tritonis the Libyans are no longer wanderers, nor do they practise the same customs as the wandering people, or treat their children in the same way. For the wandering Libyans, many of them at any rate, if not all -- concerning which I cannot speak with certainty -- when their children come to the age of four years, burn the veins at the top of their heads with a flock from the fleece of a sheep: others burn the veins about the temples. This they do to prevent them from being plagued in their after lives by a flow of rheum from the head; and such they declare is the reason why they are so much more healthy than other men. Certainly the Libyans are the healthiest men that I know; but whether this is what makes them so, or not, I cannot positively say -- the healthiest certainly they are. If when the children are being burnt convulsions come on, there is a remedy of which they have made discovery. It is to sprinkle goat's water upon the child, who thus treated, is sure to recover. In all this I only repeat what is said by the Libyans. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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