Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-30 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn Blankenship wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > >As for riding - have you ever sat a donkey? It is > not > >a comfortable experience. And zebras are worse, so > >I'd bet the combo is poor. The only 'zorse' (zebra > X > >horse) owner I met said it was like a mule as far > as physicall

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 02:55 PM 9/27/02, Deborah Harrell wrote: >As for riding - have you ever sat a donkey? It is not >a comfortable experience. And zebras are worse, so >I'd bet the combo is poor. The only 'zorse' (zebra X >horse) owner I met said it was like a mule as far as >physicallly riding (ie. not bad),

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson wrote: > > 2) If they're crossbreeds like that, presumably > they can't mate. I'm > guessing the female wouldn't go into heat or > otherwise put out signals > to the male that he ought to, um, go for a horsey > ride. And I saw him > chasing one of the hers down yesterday and

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Robert Seeberger wrote: > > http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020923&Category=NEWS21&ArtNo=109230066&Ref=AR > > If you notice something that's not quite a donkey, > not quite a zebra, and > definitely not a horse grazing at the University of > Findlay's farm, st

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > > Julia? > I think that what we have near us are still real zebras. 1) There are a number of other animals on the same property that look like specific African species. (Some kind of gazelle? Anyway, it has a very distinctive kind of horn, and I never see that exce

Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Julia? http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020923&Categ ory=NEWS21&ArtNo=109230066&Ref=AR If you notice something that's not quite a donkey, not quite a zebra, and definitely not a horse grazing at the University of Findlay's farm, stop and take a closer look. Two z