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The Catalan is a large donkey, and generally weighs between 350–450 kg. [4] Height at the withers is some 145–160 cm for jacks, about 10 cm less for jennies.
The Catalan donkey is one of the animals that appear in the moral stories of Catalan seny. Many Catalans consider seny something unique to their culture, a true Catalan symbol . Seny as a particular characteristic of Catalan society is based on a set of ancestral local customs stemming from the scale of values and social norms of traditional ...
This is a list of the breeds of ass or donkey usually considered to originate in Spain and Portugal. [1] [2] [3] English name if used ... Catalan: Catalan: Ase Catal ...
The Pyrenean donkey breed unites two quite different types: the short and powerful Gascon type, and the taller and more elegant Catalan type, which is the French population of the Catalan donkey breed, approximately 20% of the total number of which is in the Roussillon. [4]
The "ruc català" or "burro català" (Catalan donkey) is a breed of large domestic donkeys from Catalonia and the Roussillon. As a national symbol, is a relatively recent creation when the need was felt to produce something Catalan to oppose to the Central Spanish Osborne bull, widely perceived by many Catalans as a centralistic symbol. [15]
The Balearic shares common origins with the Catalan and the Baudet du Poitou. [7] The donkey was in the past the most highly valued animal in Mallorca, and could be sold for very high prices. [4] In the early twentieth century it was prized outside the islands too, and many were exported to England, and later to the United States. [7]
The ruc català or burro català (Catalan donkey) has become a symbol of Catalonia in Spain. In 2003 some friends in Catalonia made bumper stickers featuring the burro català as a reaction against a national advertising campaign for Toro d'Osborne, a brandy.
The Catalan donkey is known to be able to easily adapt to the Tunisian climate, in contrast with the Baudet du Poitou. [16] La Statistique générale de la Tunisie , written by Ernest Fallot in 1931, counted 168,794 donkeys belonging to Tunisians compared to 2,388 belonging to the French.