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What is a Zebra Mule?
Zebra Mules are hybrids of a Zebra with another animal of the genus horse and are generally called Zebroids. They are used as carrying animals on tourist farms in Kenya. The mother of these animals is usually a warm blood mare, the father a zebra stallion. In the United States they are used as hobby and show- animals. Earlier the colonial troops of Wilhelm II were using Zebroids as carrying animals. The sense of the hybride of horse and Zebra was that Zebras couldn’t be domesticated and horses were not fully tropic fit. The troops thought, that the hybrids would be just like the zebra insensitive against the sting of the tsetse-fly. The use of the Zebroide was bonded with great difficulties because of the mulish temperament of the zebras.
The Zorse (Zebra and horse)
Zorse describes especially the hybrids of a horse and zebra which usually shows a greater similarity to a horse than to a zebra. Zorses have hologram similar stripes which seem to change their form depending on the viewpoint and time of day.
Like the mules and hinnies, as a rule, Zebroids are not capable of reproduction.
The Zebrule
Zebrule is a hybrid between a zebra and a donkey and is also called Zebronkey. The Zebrule is usually sterile. As a wild animal it can be found in areas where Zebras and Wild-donkeys live in very close neighbourhood. Some are known about these hybrids.
Zebrony
A hybrid of a Zebra and a pony, they are as small as a pony, dark fur but still some stripes, just like the Zebra. This tiny animal has still a zebra dominated character.
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What is a Mule?
A horse which has long ears?
A donkey which is similar to a horse?
The voice, so incredible, that it cannot be described.
What makes this animal so special?
When a male donkey and a female horse get an offspring, then this offspring is a hybrid of both races and is called “mule”. When a male horse and a female donkey get an offspring, then the hybrid is called a hinny.
From the zoological point of view, the differences between mule and hinny are still not researched enough, so we still cannot say clearly that a hinny has these and a mule has those properties. That’s why people still call hinnys mules, or just donkeys.
The mule is basically an invention of the human and was done by an accident. In different books just like in Lorrain Travis’s book “The Mule”, you can read, that 3000 years before Christ in Nubia, people first tried to create a hybrid between horse and donkey. The breed foals had better properties than the steed less horses of that time age. That was the beginning of the mule husbandry.
Mules have thick and short head and long ears, a short mane, narrow hooves and it tail is hairless.
The mule belongs, just like its parents to the family of “Equides”, so it has the behaviour of both animals. It is an herbivore animal, and in the wild, both horse and donkey are preys, and are hunted by predators. Horses live in wide open areas and donkeys in rocky mountain shaped areas. In this case horses have to flee with their herd. Donkeys have more possibilities it is not always recommended to flee, when living on a mountain (cliffy paths, danger of plunge) they can flee downhill or stay in place if they can’t be reached by the predator. Also in this case a mule has a mixed behaviour, when it is in danger in wide areas it sometimes decides to run away or it just stands still. Sometimes when a mule feels danger it tries to defend itself very aggressive, but that doesn’t mean that it has a mad personality, it is the mule’s mixed behaviour.
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