After news that a film course is to consider the depiction of donkeys, what other species have been portrayed in a poor light?

Donkeys have featured in many films, from the Eddie Murphy-voiced animation in Shrek through to Eeyore in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh, as well as taking lead roles in cinema classics such as Robert Bresson’s celebrated Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and Jerzy Skolimowski’s recent EO.

But after news that the University of Exeter is to offer a film studies module looking at how the portrayal of donkeys in films has affected public attitudes towards them by representing them in a negative light as stubborn or comedic, are there are other animal species that deserve rehabilitation from their depiction in the movies? Here are four suggestions …