The donkey or ass is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African wild ass, E. africanus. The donkey has been used as a working animal for at least 5000 years.
Follow the journey of giant beasts and the ancestors of humans across the Middle Pleistocene to the Chalcolithic across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Polynesia.
