Hoof is a fictional anthropomorphic donkey created for the animated television series Darkwing Duck. He appears in the two-part pilot episode Darkly Dawns the Duck as one of Taurus Bulba's henchmen. Hoof is apparently mute, and when partnered with fellow henchman Mouth his name becomes a play on hoof and mouth disease. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Binomial name Equus asinus The donkey or ass (Equus asinus) is a domesticated animal of the horse family, Equidae. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... The character of Darkwing Duck as seen on the series Bonkers. ... Taurus Bulba is a fictional, anthropomorphic bull created for the animated television series Darkwing Duck. ... Mute comes from mutus, Latin for mum. ... One of Taurus Bulbas henchmen, a ram who said everything twice. ... Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. ...