1) Fictional donkey 
Platero is a little donkey, main character of Platero y yo (Spanish for Platero and I), one of Juan Ramón Jiménez`s most popular works. Platero (`silvery`) is described in the lyric prose of the book as a `small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors ...