Absalom died after his hair got caught in the branches of an oak tree while he was riding on a mule (2 Samuel 18.9). Maybe if he had been riding a donkey his hair wouldn't have gotten caught.
One particular donkey was gifted with a great distinction:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47918/the-donkey
Adorable!
One of my favorite burro stories of grandfather was when he was suddenly surrounded by a migration of tarantulas. They swarmed on both sides of his party and he built a circle of fire around himself and his wife and his burros and stayed there in the heat until the migration passed.
Another time he was bitten by a sidewinder and threw himself over the burro leader and was carried to a homestead with the burros all following the leader.
I have a photo of grandfather’s burro with my baby father on board with their white cat.