More than 100 feral donkeys from Hawaii are adjusting to a new life on the mainland after having been airlifted from the Islands to California last month.

More than 100 "Kona Donkeys" were airlifted from Hawaii to California to find adoptive homes on the mainland.

Mark Meyers, manager of the Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue in Tehachapi, Calif., said the donkeys were descendents of animals brought to Hawaii in the 1800s to work on coffee and sugar cane plantations. When plantation operations became mechanized, the animals were turned out onto lava flows where they thrived and multiplied. With funding assistance from the Humane Society of the United States, local veterinarian Brady Bergin, DVM, and a team of volunteers spent the past year rounding up the "Kona Donkeys," castrating males, and placing the animals in homes on the Islands, Meyers said. When it became apparent there were too few local adoptive homes in which the place the animals, Meyers offered to bring some of the animals to Peaceful Valley