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Many Ungulate species are traditional pack animals, including Elephant s, Camel s, the Yak , Reindeer , 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 explcit coercion. (The 1978 Rolling Stones song Beast Of Burden refers to a sense of abuse, accepted within a romantic relationship.) 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 Slave s, abused women and children, Himalaya n and Africa n natives employed as Expedition Porter s, vacationing students whose duties as staff of Mountaineering Hut s include packing stunningly 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. Another unconventional form of draft animal may be the Dog s who are brought along on Hikes carrying their own supply of drinking water and snacks on their backs, whether to provide them more exercise, or in pursuit of a hikers' Ethic of "everyone carries their own gear". TRADITIONAL PACK ANIMALS BY REGION
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