Burro
What the difference between a burro and a donkey?
None.
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What is the difference between a dog and a perro?
None, Same thing but "dog" is in English, and "perro" is in Spanish.
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In American people tend to call them "burro" if they are in winter coat, but "donkey" if they are in summer coat.
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One spring day, I watched a person shave down a pony, an underneath the winter coat was a miniture horse. (It's true, but it is sort of an inside joke.)
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Burros, aka donkeys, are smaller than horses. They have bigger ears. They bray instead of whinny.
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When horses get scared they flee, they run and run.
Not so good if you are on a mountain path or where traffic is.
Donkeys usually freeze when they are scared. Mules are like donkeys that way. That's why people say "Stubborn as a mule".
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In the past, people would whip the horse to make it run. This works, remember?, because horses flee when they are scared.
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Then someone would get a mule, and whip it to make it run. The whipping frightened the mule. So what does the mule do? What scared mules usually do, the mule would freeze.
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The more the plowman whipped the mule, the more it froze. The more it froze, the more the man whipped it. Then the man would say "Mules are stubborn".
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The man could see that the mule was only half horse, but he couldn't get it into his own thick brain that mules are also half donkey, and that it was really stupid to whip a mule.
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