Here are three varieties of an alternative rendering of a donkey based on an openclipart image by Timothy King. But note that Inkscape exported useless code so the correspondence with the original is poor in all three cases.
Variant 1 (Original)
Variant 2 (Shiny)
Variant 3 (Power of Knuth)
Variant 1 (Original)
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% basic key based on Inkscape export from Timothy King's key at https://openclipart.org/detail/211/shiny-key
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Variant 2 (Shiny)
Here's a shinier version based on a much-mangled adaption of Mark Wibrow's 3D stacked disks
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% basic key based on Inkscape export from Timothy King's key at https://openclipart.org/detail/211/shiny-key
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Variant 3 (Power of Knuth)
The code for the third variant causes the answer to exceed the length limit. While one donkey answer may be considered a misfortune and two explained by mere carelessness, a third would surely constitute deliberate trespass beyond the bounds of propriety. Hence, here is the source code in question.
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