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
Equus Press Equus Press London- and Prague-based Equus Press (Écriture en Quête d’Usage), founded in 2011, focuses on publishing experimental Anglophone writers and is concerned primarily with English language writing from outside of normal English-speaking areas. Since it was established, Equus Press has published the works of such as authors Louis Armand, Thor Garcia, Ken Nash, and Damien Ober. In April 2013, Equus Press published "Louis XXX" (Georges Bataille) in a translation by Stuart Kendall. 2014 saw the release of "Cairo" (Louis Armand), a novel shortlisted for the 2014 "Guardian" Not-the-Booker Prize, and the novel "Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America" (Damien Ober)