Definitions for pack animal
pack an·i·mal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pack animal, sumpternoun

   an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pack animalnoun

   A domesticated animal used to carry heavy items.

2. pack animalnoun

   A wild animal that lives and hunts in packs

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1. Pack animal

   A pack animal, also known as a sumpter animal or beast of burden, is an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back, in contrast to draft animals which pull loads but do not carry them. Traditional pack animals are diverse including camels, goats, yaks, reindeer, water buffaloes, and llamas as well as the more familiar pack animals like dogs, horses, donkeys, and mules.

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1. pack animal

   A pack animal is any domesticated or tamed animal that is used for transporting goods or materials by carrying loads directly on its body or attached to it. These animals are typically strong and able to endure heavy loads across challenging terrain and long distances. Examples of pack animals include horses, mules, donkeys, camels, llamas, and elephants.

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1. Pack animal

   A pack animal or beast of burden is a working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back; the term may be applied to either an individual animal or a species so employed. The term pack animal is sometimes used in contrast to draft animal, which is a working animal that typically pulls a load behind itself rather than carrying cargo directly on its back. Many ungulate species are traditional pack animals, including elephants, camels, the yak, reindeer, goats, water buffalo and llama, and many of the domesticated Equidae. The term is not routinely applied to humans carrying loads on their backs except to make a pejorative point about the injustice of so employing them, or about the privation that usually occasions accepting such work without explicit coercion. Nevertheless, from a physical point of view, certainly many considerations apply equally to human and other pack animals, without considering the range of social conditions ranging through slaves, abused women and children, Himalayan and African natives employed as expedition porters, vacationing students whose duties as staff of mountaineering huts include packing heavy loads of supplies up steep slopes, and purely recreational hikers and backpackers including both short-trip ones, and long-trip backpackers who court injury and emaciation in carrying their heavy loads.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pack animal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pack animal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of pack animal in a Sentence

1. Fiona Marshall:

   Donkeys were the first pack animal, the steam engines of their day in Africa and western Eurasia, but we know almost nothing about their use in eastern Asia.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pack animal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pack_Animal
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_Animal
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pack animal