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American Mammoth Jackstock donkey Romulus with Cara Barker Yellott in 2013; an exceptionally tall individual, not a typical breed-size example.
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American Mammoth Jackstock
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American Mammoth Jackstock donkey Romulus with Cara Barker Yellott in 2013; an exceptionally tall individual, not a typical breed-size example. · PYellott · CC BY-SA 3.0 · License terms

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American Mammoth Jackstock developed to supply the powerful jacks needed for American mule production. George Washington received Spanish breeding animals in 1785, and subsequent European imports enlarged the foundation. Catalonian, Andalusian, Maltese, Poitou, and other large donkey stocks contributed to a population selected for strength and substance. Registries founded in 1888 and 1908 merged in 1923.

The Mammoth is a large donkey with substantial limbs, a long head, and especially long ears. Its historic importance lies partly in the mules produced by mating jacks to horse mares. A mule is a hybrid offspring, not a smaller version of the donkey breed.

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Mule production explains why breeders valued a large jack, but the jack and the mule must occupy different parts of the scientific account. The former belongs to a domestic donkey breed; the latter is a hybrid offspring involving a horse parent. A mule photograph should not stand in for an image of the Mammoth breed.

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