In the run-up to the release of “Shrek,” a celebrity emerged from a pasture in Palo Alto, California — Perry, a 5-year-old gray miniature donkey. Dozens of animators visited the pasture where Perry ...

PALO ALTO – Perry, the Bay Area donkey who was the inspiration behind the beloved character in the DreamWorks' 2001 film "Shrek," died at the age of 30. In an Instagram post, Barron Park Donkeys in ...

Donkey was famously modeled after a real life miniature donkey named Perry in Bol Park in Palo Alto, California as Dreamworks animators had spent time with Perry and a few of the other donkeys for the ...

Perry, a playful and feisty miniature donkey, was euthanized at age 30 on Jan. 2 after a long battle with laminitis, a painful hoof disease, according to Jenny Kiratli, a volunteer at Bol Park in Palo ...

Perry, the miniature donkey who inspired Eddie Murphy’s “Shrek” character, died Thursday at the age of 30. His death was announced by Barron Park Donkeys in Palo Alto, California, where Perry once ...