Horses and donkeys
have a lot in common. They both carry people and people’s burdens. They look
like genetic cousins (both genus: equus)
and can produce hybrid offspring.
But horses seem
beautiful and majestic; donkeys not so much. You picture John Wayne galloping
across the prairie on a magnificent stallion, rescuing runaway stagecoaches.
You picture Gabby Hayes toodling across the desert on a scruffy donkey. They
make movies about horses like Secretariat
or The Black Stallion. If they made a
movie about a donkey, it would be something like Buttercup the Burro and Her Friend the Magpie. (My suggestion…Hollywood,
call me.)
