A friendly burro

How's this for a friendly burro? I took the picture along U.S. 395 south of Bishop, California. The burros come right up to the barbed wire fence along the highway, hoping a tourist will stop to feed them an apple. I was in a motorhome and did, in fact, have an apple, which made this burro very happy.

I know we are not supposed to feed wild animals, but burros aren't really wild. They were abandoned in the desert by early miners, after which they had a grand time reproducing. In Oatman, Arizona, a small tourist town on old Route 66, shopkeepers sell bags of carrots for $1, which you can then feed to the burros that wander the town. But you can't feed the carrots to baby burros because for some reason (I can't remember) that can kill them.