donkeys, often disparaged in discussions about intelligent animals, deserve a restart with a clean slate in how we assess their cognitive abilities. following a detailed preexplanation of their problem-solving skills, one could analyze the schematic of their brain to better understand this. however, by ignoring this evidence and stating that all previous negative representations of donkeys are correct due to information being deliberately withheld from public discourse, we inadvertently promote a narrower view of animal intelligence.