Ilan KelmanMar 10
"#Webinar: #Donkeys as Agents of #Drought #Resilience"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CCF4RbvWk
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #donkey #droughts #equids
Webinar: Donkeys as Agents of Drought Resilience

YouTube
Anthropology.netDec 4
An early Iron Age mule from Catalonia pushes hybrid equid breeding in Europe back centuries. Its bones reveal trade networks, local innovation, and a rapidly changing Mediterranean world. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #IronAge #Equids https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-hybrid-hoofprint-how-an-early-iron
A Hybrid Hoofprint: How an Early Iron Age Mule Redraws the Map of Mediterranean Exchange

A newly analyzed equid from Catalonia hints that hybrid animal breeding, long tied to later empires, had deeper and more complex roots in the western Mediterranean.

Anthropology.net
Ilan KelmanNov 19
New open access chapter:
Working #Equids in #Disasters
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00313-3_4
 
In "The Palgrave Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions in the Global Context of Climate Change, Disasters, and Other Crises" Edited by H. Wu, K. Breen, S.E. DeYoung, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00313-3
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #AnimalsDisasters #DisastersAnimals
Working Equids in Disasters: Local Concerns and Inspirations

Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys is an international animal welfare charity dedicated to improving the lives of working equids, including during and after disasters. Now, Brooke seeks to prepare the animals and owners for disasters, especially evidencing...

SpringerLink
Ilan KelmanApr 18, 2025
Just-published #PhotoEssay:
"Working #equids supporting women's #DisasterRiskManagement"
https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2025-431
 
A collaboration between Brooke - Action for Working #Horses and #Donkeys and University College London.
 
Previous #DisasterResearch photo essays:
1. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2395798
2. https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687 (scroll down for the PDF).
3. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #Mules #WorkingAnimals #AnimalsDisasters #DisastersAnimals
Ilan KelmanJan 17, 2025
"Researching equids and disaster risk management"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/researching-equids-disaster-risk-management-the-brooke-u4ahe
With @Brooke and @gemma
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Equids #Horses #Donkeys #Mules #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters
Researching equids and disaster risk management

Guest Contribution by Ilan Kelman, University College London, UK and University of Agder, Norway. Working horses, donkeys and mules are essential for the communities, environments, and livelihoods of many people around the world.

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Aug 4, 2024

Wild #donkeys and #horses engineer water holes that help other species https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wild-donkeys-horses-ecosystem-engineer-water-holes-invasive-species

#Equids engineer #desert water availability https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd6775

They documented 57 vertebrate species, from migratory #birds to #MountainLions, slurping at the wells, which is about equal to the number of species seen at streams and 64 percent higher than dry spots... The water is quite cool, and cleaner than other sources.

Donkeys and horses dig wells that help other animals find water | Science News

Dozens of animals and even some plants in the American Southwest take advantage of water-filled holes dug by these nonnative equids.

Science News
Jennifer LeonardDec 20, 2023

I'm so glad this paper is finally out!
#Equids from the #Pleistocene and #Holocene from southern Iberia (Andalucia, Spain)

Equids (Equus sp.) in southern Spain from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3580

#openaccess #horse #zooarchaeology

BlackCatRanchJul 31, 2023
Made some new friends today #Horse #Mule #Equids who come when I call them unlike some cats I know (alt text: video of a horse is grazing in a barbed wire fence field of fallow grass with a clear sunny sky, and she comes to the filmer and accepts pets and head rubs)
Matt WillemsenJun 23, 2023
Ancestors of Modern Horses Had Hooved Toes Instead of Single Hoof
Modern equids such as horses, asses, and zebras, have only a single toe, the left over original third toe on each foot, encased in a thick-walled keratinous hoof, with an underlying triangular frog on the sole that acts as a shock absorber. In new research, paleontologists analyzed hoof prints and foot bones from modern horses and fossil records to discover what happened to the lost digits.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/modern-horse-toes-12022.html #horses #equids #toes #hooves
Show threadJohn OrcuttMay 29, 2023
#Horses are maybe the most studied #fossil #mammals (I did 1/3 of my dissertation on them!). They've been central to understanding #evolution for as long as #evolutionary #biology has existed, so it was thrilling to see #zebras, the most widespread wild #equids, upon arriving in #Zambia!