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==Range and habitat of feral animals==
==Range and habitat of feral animals==
Feral donkeys are those animals which have escaped captivity and have thrived in the wild, especially in semi-arid and arid environments, and are found in many regions of the world. Approximately 1.5 million feral donkeys roam the interior of Australia, and another 6,000 animals live in the southwestern United States. These "burros" as they are called (after the Spanish word for "donkey") are protected as a historical symbol; however, a call has been made to cull their numbers<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/19/culling-wcongressional-panel-permits-culling-wild-horses/492056001/</ref><ref>https://www.humanesociety.org/news/wild-horses-step-backward</ref> as they have been said to compete for food and water with domestic range cattle and native bighorn sheep<ref>https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/invasive-burros.htm</ref>.
Feral donkeys are those animals which have escaped captivity and have thrived in the wild, especially in semi-arid and arid environments, and are found in many regions of the world. Approximately 1.5 million feral donkeys roam the interior of Australia, and another 6,000 animals live in the southwestern United States. These "burros" as they are called (after the Spanish word for "donkey") are protected as a historical symbol; however, a call has been made to cull their numbers<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/19/culling-wcongressional-panel-permits-culling-wild-horses/492056001/</ref><ref>https://www.humanesociety.org/news/wild-horses-step-backward</ref> as they have been said to compete for food and water with domestic range cattle and native bighorn sheep<ref>https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/invasive-burros.htm</ref>.
==Symbol of stupidity==
Due to its stubborn nature both real and imagined, the donkey has become a symbol of stupidity; indeed, the word "[[jackass]]", the name for the male donkey (the female is "hinney") has become a pejorative for a person acting or thinking in stupid manner. In the Italian novel ''Pinocchio''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/500/500-h/500-h.htm</ref>, the donkey has been set as one such example, as the author had a character named "Candlewick" convince other boys to come with him to a place of lazy idleness, to do whatever they wanted to do, and then finding out later it was a trap set by evil men who had most of them changed into donkeys and sold off.
In the United States, the donkey has become symbol of the Democratic Party. In 1828 the presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was defamed as a donkey by his opponents; he in turn was elected the seventh US president, having made the donkey the symbol of his campaign. In 1871 cartoonist [[Thomas Nast]] created political drawings which helped to take down the corruption of New York City boss, [[William Marcy Tweed]]. His "Tammany Tiger", named for the hall from which the Democrat Party controlled the city's finances, had an immediate effect; this in turn led Nast to resurrect the donkey and make it the symbol as a whole for the Democrats - associating it with stubborn stupidity literally overnight<ref>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/political-animals-republican-elephants-and-democratic-donkeys-89241754/</ref> - and in contrast to the bull [[elephant]] he created for the Republican Party.
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