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Mule - ASL / Audio Description
Transcript
Mules are the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey, For thousands of years the toughness of mules have been valued and exploited for labor, their ability to bear heavy loads, and maintain steady footing on uneven terrain. Mules tend to have a robust appearance and slightly longer ears than horses. Mules, like many hybrid animals, are sterile and unable to reproduce due to the dissimilar and uneven chromosomes inherited from their donkey and horse parents. Like cows and horses, mules are domestic animals that were bred in the Western Hemisphere from imported horses and donkeys from Spain. In addition to the horses and cattle, 165 mules truly bore the weight of the Anza expedition. The terrain the Anza expedition crossed was too treacherous for wheeled carts and mules were an ideal pack animal capable of carrying up to 20 percent of their body weight on the steep and rocky trails. Mules, like horses and cattle, impacted and transformed much of the Indigenous landscape especially near sources of water.
Description
ASL / Audio Description for Footprints exhibit at the Anza Trail Cultural History Park in Tucson, AZ (MULE)
Duration
1 minute, 16 seconds
Credit
AZFLIS
Date Created
01/05/2023
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