Wild Burros of Arizona.mov

[@gemguy6812]

Burro’s are awesome! Leave them alone they’re fine and so are we.

[@droberts8703]

I can't get over how awesome the donkey is

[@manuelpcl6561]

Burros do eat low hanging branches on mesquite and palo verde trees but that’s a good thing, when a brush fire comes along it doesn’t burn the tree down only the grass. It takes years for trees to regrow but brush and grass come back every year.

[@donnaviestenz7773]

Wish I could adopt one!!! No place to keep em!!! Friends have adopted!!

[@oSnapItsAli]

I find it ironic that we as people do tremendous amounts of damage to the earth and then complain about some donkeys eating a couple plants.

[@amiralions2681]

This was very educational, it's important to understand the extent of the damage they're doing.

[@gemguy6812]

I live among them aren’t destroying anything.

[@JeffSmith-it4tm]

@@gemguy6812 They need to bring in helocopter gunships.

[@seanhopkins1575]

Adorable

[@Elpulguerodelasvegas2019]

They don't need to be adopted let them to be free.

[@droberts8703]

Beautiful thanks so much

[@noreasonforreason2817]

They do more good then bad and for all the other thing humans have done to mess up the land this was a plus for us to have made then wild!

[@Garrett_Bear_Stap]

I understand how they over breed but its still sad that they are taken away from the wild and or killed, culled.

[@khowardphotoart]

How they survive the heat is beyond me!

[@rexrod7692]

While in Europe I had some burro meat. They make great burgers.

[@MuttleeCrew]

Go back to Europe.

[@eexpmalful]

Are you caníbal?

[@rewild6134]

Well, horses and other equines actually evolved in North America and these native plant species evolved alongside them for millions of years, so calling them an invasive/non native is extremely short sighted. But hey, half these people believe the world is 6000 years old and believe evolution is a lie, so I shouldn't expect much. Up until the late Pleistocene (13,000 - 10,000 years ago) there were several different species of equids living across the continent, some resembling zebra, some wild asses and others the przewalski's horse, these animals grazed and browsed with vast herds of camelids such as the stilt legged llama and camelops, 2 species of peccary, bison, several species of antilocaprid (pronghorn), 3 proboscid genera (mammoths, mastodons, gompotheres), giant armadillos(glyptodontids), huge tortoises (bolsons), at least 3 species of giant sloth, deer, tapirs and a whole plethora of other species. They were hunted and scavenged by a diverse selection of predators from Jaguars, pumas, wolves and lions (Panthera leo atrox) to Smilodon and America's own species of cheetah (Miracinonyx, actually a puma adapted for a similar lifestyle). They only became extinct when humans arrived and started exploiting and changing the ecosystem. Everything spouted by the people who 'manage' the land is a lie. These animals should be there, along with many, many others, instead cattle and they money they bring have been a cause for war against wildlife.

[@quercus4730]

Kazakhstan is where our feral horses originated. All specie of American horses became extinct long before the reintroduction of Equus.

[@phillipyoung6573]

@@izzygarcia4303 One day your will realize the bull that horses vacated completely. Many genetic dna studies are bringing to life our wild horses unique genetic (curlies, Bronze age =5000 year old dna - extinct since the bronze age in Asia but is alive and well in Am.wild horses, the cream drapht, etc.) not to mention bones found with pottery shards post 2000 years old - yet to be tested as well as thousands of other bones found in ancient digs because of those who control our institutions funding do not want the truth out. and paleo cave art, especially in Arizona with horse pics and are from very old tribes (pre-spanish). .... Plus, a horse is a horse, even if a horse was released in the wild and survived and adapted back (reintroduced) is still the exact same species that lived with the exact same species of grasses etc. -- besides 7000 years is only an 1/2 hour gone compared to how long they have been here. (most wild horses lack a 6th vertibrae, have primative striping, have harder slower growing hooves, ). So, enough out there to say lets stop this downgrading the wild horse and lets allow study to be open and honest without extractors determining what is found, researched etc. As far as burro, time will also tell when they left or not - also depicted on cave art.

[@greysilverback3924]

Humans are the most invasive species of them all.

[@aquariaaustin2077]

@@quercus4730 Kazakhstan is NOT where horses originated. The fossil record long ago established that horses originated in the Americas ~3million years ago. Several traversable landbridges existed between continents 2-3 million years ago, and that's when the modern horse's ancestors migrated FROM North America TO what is now Africa, Europe and Asia. Note: One of the most surprising 'geologic discoveries is that Africa and South America had such landbridges to Antarctica--which once had untold numbers of animals, plants--even forests. If the ice melts, we might have one positive benefit of it in that it will be a gold mine for paleontologists. If we can survive the meltdown to research it. As it is, horse migration from North America so long ago is why fossils from the Americas that predate Africa's Przewalski's horse nevertheless demonstate that both the fossils and the Przewalski's horse belongi to the EXACT SAME SPECIES. Not taxonomic family, but SPECIES. Meaning they're the same bloody animal. Welcome to reality. Try being ignorant about it somewhere else.

[@emilyraley9410]

So cute

[@kobijuankonobe7403]

Look if you what to control their numbers just realease more mountain lions and coyotes

[@manuelpcl6561]

Do you want to see wild burros Or Wild fires? Seems to me, we need to move them around to areas where they are needed! Not sold to Mexico for meat.

[@droberts8703]

Check out Oscars place adoption center and sanctuary

[@khowardphotoart]

Human needs to step up and plant some more bush for them to eat~ volunteer programs etc.

[@j.503]

The thing is, they'll eat up anything more we plant and then increase their numbers and then they're running out of food again.

[@johnnyc3184]

Wow wild Donkey's. Maybe they should add Wolves or Coyotes to control the burros? Actually Wolves produce alot of babies so they will eventually be a problem. Maybe use Burros as Commercial Meat?

[@obiwahndagobah9543]

If the donkeys really damage the vegetation, the best method to keep the ecosystem in balance will be releasing of native predators like cougars and mexican wolfes.

[@albertorodriguez972]

Typical Arizona. Deeming another species not native (illegal)...lolThis guy pissed me off...dude its the damm hot ass dessert let them be...it's man's fault so let them thrive just like horses did when the Europeans brought them here.....more Arizona politics bull than a problem w the ecosystem...bull

[@swatisquantum]

Based on my research, they are native. Count on humans like this believe everything he learned in K12 school.

[@bradleydickson6159]

@@swatisquantumthey’re not native

[@carolynkrek6109]

I wonder how much more negative this guy from AZ Game & Fish can be? He had nothing positive to say. What about people tearing up the land with their 4 wheelers? What about people disposing of their trash & starting forest fires? I have yet to see a burro start ONE forest fire! It seems to me these guys, the BLM & ranchers would love to totally get rid of our wild burros & Salt River wild horses..smh

[@bobbypaluga4346]

If that's Flagstaff, I'm Donald Duck, Cacti does not grow in that climate

[@jamminjim247]

+Bobby Paluga Howdy Donald! flagstaffphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/autumn-in-desert.html

[@donnaviestenz7773]

Probably lower saguaro areas.

[@jhonymijango3494]

burro or donkey cual es.

[@shermann1441]

Start issuing tags

[@singularityphoenix0369]

It’s “Boo rose” not burrows 😣😫

[@Pileits]

Yanno actually horse's and direct related animals such as Mule, or Burro taste quite good. The meat they produce is actually excellent. I've tasted Foal and horse in Iceland as well as France and found it quite tasty. You people that think eating horse is gross are very UNINFORMED. Try it before you condemm it.

[@rosesimmons501]

Casteration will control a lot of it

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Part of the damage we do is introducing non native animals into an ecosystem...it never turns out well for that ecosystem. We have a responsibility to correct or try to minimize the damage.

[@cathyholt1035]

Like I said ranchers they have their own land for their cattle why Drive the Mustangs and wild Burros off of their own land that ain't the cattle rancher Lane it's every other wild animal not the cattle

[@matthewdeal9703]

Looking forward to the day tags are issued. Id eat them. I can make anything taste good!

[@Antonya944]

Shut up

[@MuttleeCrew]

Typical AZGFD propaganda. If they can't sell a hunting tag for the animal they consider it a nuisance. I don't know how they sleep at night. Shame on them all....

[@gemguy6812]

Horse meat is not terrible. The Tijuana Taco’ of the early 1970’s were best I’d tasted!

[@redfernfarmstead]

This is propaganda. False. Callous. Life is sacred. Burros are beautiful. The people making this could use a bigger heart with a dose of honesty for good measure.

[@mr.johnson6199]

burros make good taco meat

[@आलमसहता-ख5ख]

A. K.

[@cathyholt1035]

Was so messed up people like you and me couldn't even go out and catch our own Mustang or our own Barrel Burrows that to me is wrong and might supposably be the government and explain but it's the whole United States land and I think sometimes we should be allowed to go out there like in the good old cowboy days and go catch us a few Burrows and a few Mustangs our own if we would like or hold hurt if we wanted to

[@oSnapItsAli]

more hypocritical than ironic really though

[@karink1313]

I think you should rethink your facts when it come to the burros...WRONG.

[@melissabirch459]

Propaganda. Both Burros and Horses evolved in North America. THEY are native to North America

[@melissabirch459]

No, they evolved in North America and migrated to Eurasia before the the last Ice Age...some Native Americans believe that there were horses here before the European horses came over

[@melissabirch459]

check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse

[@tomharrell1954]

Melissa Birch NO THEY DID NOT. They were brought here by the Spanish. There were no burrows or horses until they were brought from Europe.

[@tacosalesman7544]

Yes, yes they did. Horses did actually evolve in North America, but were wiped out by the last ice age by human hunting, donkeys however, are from Africa.