The first zebra patient I thought was kind of tame. It did not move at all. Owner said it would not eat or drink water, but it had a normal temperature
etc.
It died the afternoon I saw it. Sent specimens to the U -- it died of tetanus, which explained why it didn't move....It couldn't move, it was paralyzed.
I did not know that zebras and horses/donkeys could interbreed. Are the stripes
retained? What does the offspring look like?
The hybrids (and they are in the true sense of the word) almost always retain their stripes, but to a much lesser degree (fainter...) and only on the color parts (the white 'paint' marking blanket all color, so no black and white stripes) that usually retain the base color...
Here is a link to a Google search with many different pictures: Zorse Pictures
They seem to nearly always be sterile, like a mule, but then we never know with hybrids. I am fascinated by the case of the False Whale and Bottle Nose Dolphin that not only mated and had a viable offspring (who woulda thought?!?), but that offspring also mated back to a Bottle Nose Dolphin and had a viable offspring!!!! She should have been sterile, so they never thought to separate her... Look up Whophin to see this case...
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I'm with you WIllie! I've known a couple Zedonks- (zebra and donkey hybrid) and IMO they are not much better then a wolf hybrid. Never met a Zorse- though I assume the personality remains the same.
Just a little bit of something wild can totally throw our domestic animals for a loop. We need to leave the wild, WILD.
I have met Zorses and Zonkey in Texas, saw a farm that sold Zebra.
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What I found interesting about Lygers is that they are absolutely huge (twice tiger size), apparently female tigers have a growth gene that causes giantism and the male tigers have a gene that stops the growth at normal levels. When a female tiger is bred to a male lion it produces a HUGE hybrid Lyger because the stop gene is not present.
On the other hand a Tigon is a smaller than lion hybrid and is produced by a male tiger and a female lion.
I'm rather interested in genes and find the production of two hugely different hybrids from the same animals, rather curious. I wonder if there are any other animals that are like that?
Given how bitches can affect litters, I wonder what the difference between a wolf-sired 'dog' litter and a dog-sired 'wolf' litter would be. We don't have wolves in England outside of zoos and hybrids are illegal, so I have no experience to offer - just intrigued.
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I have a litter of 5 Savannah Cats here right now. 6 weeks old. They are F7s so not too wild at all. And are any cats truly domestic to begin with? Savannahs aren't 'gorgeous' like a Bengal but they have great outgoing personalitys. Less than a pound and sickish (bacterial I am mothering them for for the owner) and these babies can still back down my dogs.
I can't imagine what an F2 or F3 would be like and here in NY they aren't legal that "wild" anyway. As it is they make using our bathroom an adventure.
I am not sure where I stand for hybrids. Some animals hybridize in the wild....coydogs, feral cats, and I own a snake variant that is an intergrade of a black and yellow ratsnake that has taken over the area they overlap. And 20 yrs ago I worked in the lab of a herpetologist that was studying the evolution of fence lizards that similarly interbred along their habitats overlaps. It is evolution.
Not to totally derail this thread- but it was mentioned that Mustangs have made good trail horses.... along with MANY other disciplines!!
See the link for an article on Padre, a BLM mustang who competed at this years Dressage at Devon... and WON!! Competing against warmbloods, and horses bred specifically for the sport. Hows that for mother nature, and survival of the fittest? Wild born Mustang can win against horses that sell for upwards of $20k?!
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I'm an Eastoner & know of BLM land.
Yeah, sure, make me feel even dumber!
So what the heck is a zebra doing running around on BLM land?
You might be surprised at some of the odd exotics people turn loose when they become a bit of a pest. I remember one time I was out on the west end of the Olympic Peninsula and found a small group 3 of wallabies bouncing around in a clearing by the Quinnalt river. A friend of mine also told me outside of Spokane for awhile you could find grey kangaroos in the late 80's.
There are plenty of pygmy goats running around park land. It wouldn't surprise me that a giraffe/zebra/springbok or some other exotic running around public lands too.
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