#zedonk

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A zedonk is a hybrid offspring of a donkey and a zebra. They are also called zonkeys.

Image credit: glaflamme/Getty Images

#glaflamme #photographer #zedonk #hybrid #donkey #zonkey #animal #mammal #nature #zebra

[letsgethaunted]

The Russian Sleep Experiment, Soviet Poison Labs, and the Humanzee Photodump

IMAGE 01: One of the most common images associated with “The Russian Sleep Experiment” IMAGE 02: Randy Gardner was just 17 years old when he beat the Guiness World Record for longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep, staying awake for 11 days and 24 minutes. His record has allegedly been broken several more times since, but in modern times Guinness refuses to acknowledge this category since it is considered dangerous. IMAGE 03: “The Kamera” (aka “The Cell”) also known as the secret laboratory where the Soviet secret police employed scientists to carry out human experimentation on unwitting victims, some of whom were kidnapped off the street. IMAGE 04: Another image often used when discussing the Russian Sleep Experiment. IMAGE 05: More images of Randy Gardner IMAGE 06: A “ZEDONK” hybrid IMAGE 07: A list of other hybrid animals IMAGE 08: Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov IMAGE 09: Is a Humanzee hybrid possible? Is it ethical? IMAGE 10: “Russian Sleep Experiment” art by Mister Feelgood on DeviantArtPhoto

#Let's Get Haunted #The Russian Sleep Experiment Soviet Poison Labs and the Humanzee #The Russian Sleep Experiment #Randy Gardner #The Kamera #ZEDONK #Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov #Instagram

[feijoaaas]

gf showed me a video of a zebra eating snacks with its little tongue shaped like a ladle and she said horses can’t eat like that and i said that’s just a horse that can do that and this followed

Is a zebra a horse?

Zebras are closely related to horses but they're not the same species. They're both in the Equidae family and they can even breed with each other.

The offspring (zebroids) have different names dependent on the parents. A male zebra and female horse produces a zorse, and a female zebra and male horse produces hebra. Zebras can also breed with donkeys, to produce a zedonk.

Offspring of all crossovers are sterile, as zebras, horses and donkeys have different numbers of chromosomes.

this is what it looks like

I WANT A LITTLE ZEDONK PLEASE LOOK AT ITS STRIPEY LEGS ARE YOU KIDDING ME 😭

#zedonk #zebra #horse #donkey

[brainonthebox]

TIL that the child of a zebra and a done is called a Zedonk.

#this is beautiful #i just want to say it over and over again #zedonk #funny words #words are amazing #today i learned #zebra

[whywishesarehorses]

If you put a bunch of horses, zebras and donkeys in a large field together, with enough grass, vegetation, water, etc. to consume but without any human intervention - would there be interbreeding going on? If not, what do you think this scenario would look like more generally? Thanks in advance :)

This is a fun question! I know folks have said "absolutely not" to this question before, but I am going to go against the grain and say there would be!

My evidence starts with the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area in California - this is one of the few HMAs that has both horses and burros in the same area and it ALSO has mules pop up from time to time:

In 2010, there was a round-up of 1,800 equids; 180 or so were burros, and almost 20 were mules! You can read more about this HMA here.

I've seen a few of these pop up - including at one of the recent Internet Adoptions, and through a Mustang nonprofit.

So! Horses + donkeys = yes, in the wild! Not often, but it happens. These are a male donkey and a female horse - hinnies, with a female donkey and a male horse, are a lot less common in general, and I don't know of any wild occurrences.

The second part of this is zebroids, or zebra hybrids. Zorses do sometimes happen in captivity, but not often. Zedonks are a more common 'accidental' cross - reported in the Colchester Zoo in England. This was a male zebra and a female donkey:

Zebra-Donkey hybrids have popped up a few times in captivity, including at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia, in 2010. She was similarly born to a female donkey and male zebra. The preserve's founder said that the animals had been running in the same large fields for more than 30 years and never had any crossbreeding until 2010!

Safari Eco Park, in Barbados, has a zedonk that came from a female zebra and male donkey in 2005: "Burchell's Zebra named Allison produced a zonkey called Alex sired by a donkey at Highland plantation in the parish of Saint Thomas, Barbados. Alex, born April 21, 2005, is apparently the first zonkey in Barbados."

I have heard that zonkeys occur in the wild in South Africa between male zebras and female donkeys, but I cannot actually find much proof. There was a wild Zonkey filmed in 1999 along Hennops Offroad Trail outside of Pretoria South Africa, and then another spotting and recording in 2014.

This means that zebra + donkey = yes as well!

Given all this, my answer is that hybrids are a definite possibility in this scenario, if not super likely. They would likely be zedonks and mules rather than zorses though.

#zorse #zonkey #donkey #mule #burro #horse #mustang horse #wild horse #equids

[roguemonsterfucker]

”zebra genetics in this game are NOT realistic” I’m very curious now about zebra genetics

Here's an old ramble I made about zebra genetics.

But basically, some gene tests were done on zebras and they found that the gene causing the stripes is the dun gene, which causes primitive markings in horses (stripes on the legs and a dorsal stripe).

The game of Horse Isle 3 (the horse game I'm playing) doesn't use this fact at all and just makes up some zebra genetics that make no real sense.

Plus we can safely assume that red striped zebras are equivalent to chestnut horses, a gene that's recessive to black. So most zebras are black but some carry chestnut and some are chestnut but once again, Horse Isle ignores this.

Horse Isle has all zebras being black, no chestnut, and instead has a dilution gene they call "partial albino" to explain the existence of red zebras. Now there IS a dilution gene in zebras, you can see it if you google Pale Zebra. But that, in my opinion, is separate from the gene that causes red stripes. Though sadly I don't think anyone's gene tested these pale zebras yet so we can't know the exacts.

In addition, Horse Isle has a gene in zebras they call "rau quagga." It's based on the real life selective breeding project to "breed back" the extinct zebra subspecies, the quagga.

I take great issue with how they've chosen to implement the genetics of this.

In real life, I assume based on everything that I've seen that the quagga project has slowly selectively bred the zebras to have less and less stripes and more and more red color on the white parts. It isn't a single gene causing them to look like quaggas or not look like quaggas. It's a sliding scale, not a binary.

But Horse Isle has made it binary. Zebras in the game can carry the gene for "rau quagga" and if they have two copies of it, suddenly the zebra has very few stripes. It irritates me because it would be much more satisfying (for me at least) to slowly breed towards that look instead of just BAM. The parents had normal stripes and suddenly the baby is a quagga. 🙄

All of these things also translates into unrealistic hybrids, like the zorses and zedonks.

Because no Horse Isle zebra carries chestnut, that SHOULD mean you can't get a chestnut zorse but the maker of the game in his infinite wisdom (🤮) decided no actually, zebras that don't carry chestnut should be able to make chestnut zorses... for some reason... So you can get chestnut horse/zebra hybrids if the horse bred is or carries chestnut. Because that makes sense. 🙄

Yet for some reason, it doesn't work that way for the zebra donkey hybrids. In Horse Isle, you can't get a chestnut zedonk. For some reason. Go figure.

ALSO because in real life zebras all (to our knowledge) have two copies of the Dun gene, technically all zebra hybrids should be dun as well. But since Horse Isle zebras aren't dun, the hybrids aren't all dun. They have zebra stripes, sure, but dun doesn't just add stripes and call it a day. It does a lot of things to the coloration of an equine that I personally find very appealing. So it's sad to me that the zebras in Horse Isle aren't dun.

So uh. Yeah, there's a ramble about real zebra genetics and fake Horse Isle zebra genetics lol.

[needanevenbettername]

Wednesday does a science presentation.

Wednesday: So, what constitutes each Taxon is pretty arbitrary. They basically just serve to act as another set of branches in the tree that Taxonomists built. But one exception is Species, which is generally defined as any group of animals that can breed and have babies that aren't sterile freaks. Mule, Liger, Zedonk, Skunk Ape. They can live normal lives but cannot reproduce, so they don't count. On the other hand, in our innumerable trespasses against God, we can cross-breed a Chiuhaha and Great Dane and make things like Chi-Dane-Dane's, which actually work. So, Dogs are Dogs are Dogs.

#wednesday netflix #wednesday #wednesday incorrect quotes #wednesday addams #incorrect wednesday quotes #source: Sam O' Nella Academy.

[killbarbie]

Zedonk of Zorse?

#????

[niceandbluept2]

I think you should read about every marsupial. Also antelopes are pretty neat

omg thank u added to the list

some other critters that have captivated me recently are every creature in the dromedary family, mountain goats (animal not the band but love u john darnielle), tapirs, donkeys and mules like i mentioned in the tags (and all the hybrids they can do with them like zedonks), gymnures aka hairy hedgehogs aka moonrats, and pangolins :)

#im so glad u get it #asks

[wanda-the-anaconda]

LYNNNNNGUINEEEEEE!!!

howdydo lynn-a-licious hope you’re having a fantastic last day of 2022 and!! the last zorse zonkey zaturday of this year!!

today i bring you…

💫Knowledge💫

did you know that both zonkeys and zorses are members of a specific hybrid called zebroids?? zorses were originally breeded by using a male zebra and a female horse to get the body of a horse but with some sexy stripes! the zebra part of zorses means that they are very resistant to certain pests and diseases. it’s also very nearly impossible for a zorse to be made without some form of human intervention

zonkeys are super duper rare and while some do live in the wild, most of them live in zoos. they also go by a crap ton of names such as: zonkey, zebonkey, zebronkey, zebrinny, zebrula, zebrass, zedonk and zebadonk. and we can guess that zonkeys were in existence at some point during the 1800s; Charles Darwin wrote about them in “Origin of Species” back in 1859 and some dude named Lord Morton experimented with horse hybrids even further back in 1815!!!

anyways, hope you have a cool new years party and know that i had to open up my notes app to type this all out for you <333

MR SIR JUCKLEY, ROBIN HOOD, RJ, ROBIN SQUARED. YOU ARE A MYSTICAL FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH AND I AM HONORED THAT YOU OPENED UP YOUR NOTES APP FOR LIL OLD ME

those are actually very interesting facts and make zorses and zebadonks seem much less terrifying.

I hope you have the most amazing last day of 2022 and that your new year is also great <33

#zorse and zonkey zaturdays make my week #ty rj 🥺

[sunflower-butch]

zombieapocalypseronanceau zaturday.

NOT zorse or zedonk zaturday.

I can accept this

[luminnara]

As someone that loves weird pets, whats is the weirdest one that you saw yourself? Mine was a friend having an alive bug collection with all sorts of thing from ants to scorpions and beetles. And dont forget the crickets, butterflies and dragonflies. Before you aso why, he just said why not 🤷‍♀️

(I am the weird pet friend)

I grew up on a farm so I had a lot of experiences involving finding injured wildlife and trying to nurse them back to health. This was in a very rural area and back before info about things like wildlife rescues was very widespread, so it made a lot of sense to try it on my own (pls call experts now, we have the technology)

I had things like wild doves and other birds, my dad almost bought a zebra once, I had lots of bugs…I had a giant African land snail for a while because my teacher just. Bred them?? So I was like hell yeah sign me up

Turtles, little lizards, my parents bred seahorses for a while (so also little snails and shrimp that lived in the tank too), frogs and toads…my friend’s aunt had a bobcat and my uncle had a coyote dog hybrid

Now the wildest thing I have are two turtles but you can bet your ASS when I own a house I’m gettin something weirder

I’m not really sure what the weirdest pet I’ve ever encountered was, though! I had some neighbors who did falconry, but the birds aren’t really pets…I’ve met people with zedonks and camels and stuff which are definitely harder to find in the US than in places where they’re common lol

[mardytoast]

if the cross breed of a zebra and donkey is a zedonk..

then..

#..? #ze mole #south park

[jadewalker]

#games

[interestingasfuckreddit]

A zedonk which is a cross between a donkey and a zebra. https://t.me/InterestingasfuckBackup/57960 #interestingasfuck #rinterestingasfuck #interestingasfuckreddit #interestingasfucksubreddit #r_interestingasfuck

#interestingasfuck #rinterestingasfuck #interestingasfuckreddit #interestingasfucksubreddit #r_intere

[graywyvern]

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Old Gley Whistle Test.

"A way of looking at things is not yet a knowledge" --@Auto_Nietzsche

Mirror. ☆ ☆

Silence after song, and mango chutney, Tangled up in this inordinate month: The dawn-swift crackle of a waylaid vampire. That time of night I wake and watch my torment Nothing is true, and ev’rything deceitful, Then I must take my suffering for gospel Though it be only mule, and not a zedonk. Abjester after some forgotten solstice Or fallen stone, to be its pilgrim-hostage, Here lies wisdom crazing in the kiln. Insect-machines, chrysanthemum and hairpin Turns to drive in my dream, bouquet gone putrid, All of the shadowy drones converge on nothing; With care I set it squirming in my album.

"But this world – of climate emergency, economic volatility, fortified borders and political fragmentation, of incipient fascism, surveillance capitalism, culture wars, militarised police forces, eroded welfare states, expendable gig workers, and messianism – is Utopia, 'it just isn’t ours'."

"fluttering butterfly now a little nap lights out across the evening waves"

--@poem_exe

"The murky condition of the city in the fog, the murky mental condition of my brain, and the ambiguous position of my identity in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region seemed to be totally of the same substance; sometimes they mirror each other and sometimes they seep into each other."