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Like the Nazis in the closing stages of WWII, the Russians have found that shortages of vehicles and maintenance issues are making pack animals a practical alternative.—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026 The few visible trails had been kept open by the passage of wild donkeys descended from colonial-era pack animals.—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026 The long-distance trade is particularly impressive considering pre-Columbian North America’s only pack animal was the dog.—Adam Crepelle, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2025 All this was built with only basic tools, pack animals and human muscle – the latter supplied by some 9,000 laborers, roughly one-quarter of whom were recent immigrants from Ireland.—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pack animal