Macroanatomy and Angiography of Coronary Arteries in Equus asinus

Abstract

T he donkeys are versatile animal, used in ride, light draught work, car traction in rural areas, for anatomy teaching purposes as well as a cheap source for meat consumption for wild animals (Norris et al., 2021). There is a shortage of information about the donkey and it is often imperfectly treated as a small horse (Senior, 2013). The anatomy of the coronary arteries among animal kingdom is fascinating and most varied. In quadruped, the heart is supplied via coronary circulation; the right coronary artery [arteria (a.) coronaria dextra] and the left coronary artery (a. coronaria sinistra). Coronary vessels have been studied in many animal species including laboratory animals (Icar-