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Wild donkeys are descended from domesticated donkeys left behind by California gold miners more than a century ago.

And no matter how hard wildlife officials try to direct them toward their natural prey, the wolves seem to find the domesticated cattle wandering through open pastures a lot more appealing.

To start, they’re believed to be the first domesticated food crop, with their earliest cultivation dating back 10,000 years in the Fertile Crescent.

Honeybees are essentially domesticated insects, and in fact are far less endangered than many of the species they are now pushing out.

"I think that photographs help to capture how cute rats really are and show a different side to them, and that domesticated rats are in fact very different to their wild counterpart," she added.