work animal

Jean-Loup Rault, a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, compares the current moment to the start of the Industrial Revolution when metal machines replaced horses and other work animals.

Traditionally, they have been used as work animals and even in warfare but in modern times their very existence is under threat.

She emphasizes the material wealth that was destroyed when people were driven off their homesteads, leaving behind crops, work animals, tools, all painfully earned.

The Harfoots, our likeable Hobbit ancestors, don't have horses — or any work animals.

Nigeria is trying to curb the export of donkey skins which has drastically diminished the country’s population of the work animals, particularly in the north.