pack animal

She pointed at the ridge of a nearby rock formation, but I couldn’t understand her shouts over the noise of bleating pack animals, the squawking of birds, and the drumming in my ears.

Pigs are pack animals — not so different from being in a touring rock band, the singer and guitarist Marisa Dabice, 36, noted playfully.

Burros are not native to the West’s deserts — they are descendants of the pack animals that miners and prospectors used more than a century ago.

They are also an iconic symbol of the American Southwest, dating to their days as pack animals for people flocking to California during the Gold Rush.

For lookouts reachable on foot within a day, the Forest Service provided a pack animal — but the human had to walk.