What is the difference between a donkey and a burro?
Donkey is the correct term for any of the domesticated Asses. Horses, Donkeys and zebras are all of the family Equus. Burro is a coloquial term for the Spanish or feral type of donkey (wild burros). The term is used almost exclusively in the West. The term is correct only when applied to the mid-sized types of donkeys, and more correctly only those who are wild in descent. (They are STILL domestic animals – feral means domesticated that has gone back to a wild state – not an indigenous wild species!) The term burro is NOT correct in use with Miniature Mediterranean Donkeys (under 36″) or in Mammoth Asses (over 56″).
