Two donkeys engaging at the Copenhagen Zoo in DenmarkFrank RønsholtFor millennia, humans have actually utilized the simple donkey (Equus asinus) for many purposes, from manual labor to all-terrain transport. The donkey is primarily come down from the Nubian wild ass (Equus africanus africanus), which is believed to have gone extinct in the 1970s, though a separate clade might have come from an unidentified species or the Atlas wild ass (Equus africanus atlanticus), which was driven to termination through overhunting more than 1,700 years ago.
