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The long-distance trade is particularly impressive considering pre-Columbian North America’s only pack animal was the dog.
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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
As of today, human waste bags, also known as WAG bags, are carried down by pack animals from Everest Base Camp in barrels for disposal in Gorakshep.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Steamships laden with mail sailed from the East Coast to Panama, where the mail was taken off the ships, transported in canoes or on pack animals, and handed to another steamship waiting on the Pacific side of the isthmus.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
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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
As of today, human waste bags, also known as WAG bags, are carried down by pack animals from Everest Base Camp in barrels for disposal in Gorakshep.
—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Steamships laden with mail sailed from the East Coast to Panama, where the mail was taken off the ships, transported in canoes or on pack animals, and handed to another steamship waiting on the Pacific side of the isthmus.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
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“Pack animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pack%20animal. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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