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Meet Buckwheat, the donkey you can hire to crash Zoom meetings

Buckwheat is ready to inject some fun into your humdrum work-from-home office day - for a price. [Photo: AFP]

The coronavirus pandemic has led millions of people to embrace meetings via Zoom, but admittedly, those can be as tedious as in-person conferences.

So one animal sanctuary in Canada, in dire need of cash after being forced to close to visitors, found a way to solve both problems.

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