Donkey have worked together with humans for millennia. Traditionally, the scientific name for the donkey is "Equus asinus asinus" based on the principle of priority used for scientific names of animals. However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 2003 that if the domestic species and the wild species are considered subspecies of one another, the scientific name of the wild species has priority, even when that subspecies was described after the domestic subspecies. This means that the proper scientific name for the donkey is "Equus africanus asinus" when it is considered a subspecies, and "Equus asinus" when it is
Leo Africanus Leo Africanus Joannes Leo Africanus (; born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, ; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was a Berber Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his book "Descrittione dell’Africa" ("Description of Africa") centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern exploration of Africa. For this work, Leo became a household name among European geographers. Most of what is known about his life is gathered from autobiographical notes in his own work. Leo