DONKEY.BAS, a game that was co-written by Bill Gates and came pre-installed on some IBM computers in 1981, is now available for iPhone and iPad gamers in the iTunes App Store. Priced at just $0.99 (0.79 EUR), the game redefines the expression “blast from the past” with truly old-school gameplay mechanics... |
10 February 2012
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Indeed, the identity of the strange breed of 'horse' that has been discovered in 2004, at Pompeii, has been cleared out by a Cambridge University researcher, who realized it was actually a donkey.Back in 2004, when academics unearthed skeletons found at a house in the ancient Roman town that was covered in ... |
3 November 2010
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This week, the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in north Georgia, United States, welcomed the first zebra-donkey hybrid in America. The “zedonk” has a donkey for a mother and a zebra stallion for a father and it is quite a rare animal. The animal is a mix between a zebra and donkey. With black stripes prominen... |
30 July 2010
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Scientists from the University of Florida found the donkey's wild ass ancestor. They say that more than five thousand years ago, humans in North Africa domesticated the wild donkey's ancestors, twice. This was extremely important at the time as it was crucial for ancient cattle herders to become more mobile... |
30 July 2010
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It has been considered that the donkey was domesticated 6,000 years ago, from the African wild ass (Equus asinus), in northeastern Africa, to which it still bears a great resemblance, including the shoulders' "cross" (the wild donkeys of southwestern US and other areas are just feral bewildered animals). But a n... |
11 March 2008
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1. Donkeys are, let's say, a desert horse or zebra. In fact, a zebra species from northwestern Africa, Grevy's zebra, is something intermediary between a donkey and a zebra, whereas a species of Asian wild ass from Tibet, kiang, is something intermediary between horses and donkeys. 2. In comparison to a hor... |
8 December 2007
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Zebras represent a symbol of the African savanna. But, did you know that their evolution (and that of horses and asses) started 54 million years ago, in North America, with Hyracotherium, a fox sized animal with four toed fore limbs and three toed rear limbs? They lived in forests, but 20 million years ago, the clime... |
7 December 2007
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Shrek arrives from the big screen of cinema theaters straight on your mobile phone. It was just about time, as this movie's fans have just had their Shrek appetite aroused by the release of the third film of the series.The mobile game allows the player to step into Shrek's large ogre shoes and face the enem... |
2 June 2007
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