puppet wiki:
[yle="font-weight:bold;">Headline text A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). The last method is also called animatronics. Digital animated figures, with this description, may also be described as puppets, particularly since they are often supplanted by physical puppets for closeups. However, drawn cartoons are not puppets.
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donkey wiki:
all>Conservation status: Domesticated The donkey aka Annes (Equus asinus, hence also ass) is a domesticated animal of the horse family, Equidae. The word also applies to a type of apparatus.
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