Known as the inspiration for the character Donkey, voiced by comedy legend Eddie Murphy in the 2001 animated classic “Shrek,” Perry was a beloved staple in the Palo Alto community, remembered for his ...

Courtesy Steve Shpall. Perry, a beloved miniature donkey who has been a fixture of Bol Park for nearly three decades and who famously served as the model for the Donkey character in “Shrek ...

Perry the donkey, who lived just two miles off campus and was beloved by many Stanford community members, died in early ...

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 ...

The donkey arrived in Stanford in the 1990s to serve as an emotional support animal for polo ponies but rose to fame when he modeled for animators who designed the “Shrek” character Donkey, voiced by ...

The city even provided a $10,000 grant for his ongoing medical care. Though Perry spent most of his life at Bol Park, his influence reached far beyond Palo Alto. His unique personality and ...

Perry, a miniature donkey, had been a star attraction at Bol Park in Palo Alto - in northwestern California - for almost 30 years before he was sadly euthanised on Thursday. The beloved ...

So in 1997, the “spunky” 3-year-old was brought to Palo Alto’s Bol Park to live in a pasture set aside for donkeys to graze. It was there in 1999 that Rex Grignon, a supervising animator at ...

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 ...

Perry, a miniature donkey who lived in Palo Alto, California, was euthanized Thursday after suffering from a painful and ...

SFGATE met Perry back in 2021, when he was a mere 26 years old, in his home at Cornelis Bol Park in Palo Alto. “It’s evident if you know Perry and watch the movie that it’s him.