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This is Allie Ward.

This is Ologies.

This is a show in which we cover one Ology every episode.

And friends, I know that you love donkeys already because we truly got like a tidal wave of questions for this one.

And happened to chat with the loveliest donkey expert we could find.

This is such a chill conversation and cuddly and calming and informative. It was like sitting on a

covered porch with a tea and a plate of cookies. You just keep eating while they talked about interesting

donkey facts. And thisologist is the director of research and operational support at the

nonprofit, the donkey sanctuary. And it's been there for over two decades

researching, caring for, and advocating for donkeys. They're an author on dozens of donkey and

mule research papers, as well as having a microbiological background, which we talk about. They

were just made for this work and they love it. So we'll meet them in a minute, but thank you

first to patrons of the show who make it possible. You two can join for as little as a dollar a month. And for free, we also have shorter kid-friendly episodes of Ologies in their own feed. They're called Smologis, S-M-O-L-G-I-E-S, found wherever we get your podcasts. Ologies merch is available for your body at ologiesmerch.com and you can always support ologies by just leaving us a review,

which helps so much it gets to show up in the charts and gets it seen.

Each week, I kick this off by reading a recent one, such as this from Lori 2474, who called Ologies, charming, educational, and highly addictive.

Treat yourself to an engaging conversation with

experts at a level that doesn't belittle you or leave you lost in jargon. Also, right amount

of swearing. I appreciate that, and that is affirming. Okay, asinology comes from the Latin

word, assinous. It means ass, which means donkey. Donkey itself may come from an old word meaning dull brown, but that's been

debated. But ass, as in your ass is going to love this episode, came much later, and that was

derived from the British arse, which came from a word for tail, a rump. We do also discuss rumps in

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