Video: Hardworking donkeys in a coal mine in Pakistan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Donkeys are wrongly called the most stubborn animal. The most accurate definition that can fit this representative of the animal world is hardworking. No wonder donkeys are used for the most difficult and exhausting jobs instead of horses. For example, in coal mines. We present a small photo report from one of these mines located in Pakistan.
The pictures clearly illustrate the fact that animals work on a par with miners and get tired no less than people. The task of the donkeys in the mine is to transport coal to the surface. Up to 20 flights are operated per day. Animals carry 20 kilograms of coal at a time.
Exhausting work significantly reduces the life span of donkeys. Although the miners themselves admit that they are trying to protect their assistants: take them to the surface more often, give them fresh water to drink, and feed them to their fill. However, donkeys not only risk their health in the mine, but are often exposed to underground collapses. That is why there are so many injured animals walking the streets of Pakistan. All of them come from coal mines, who were "lucky" not to die under the rubble.
Some photographs show donkeys crying black from coal after a hard day's work. This fact is shocking. Sad pictures bear little resemblance cheerful shots of laughing animals … It becomes clear that donkeys, like humans, have radically different fates.
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