Friday, April 16, 2010

Strange Hybrid Animals - Zonkey

There are a lot of strange animals out there, but some of the weirdest animals are the hybrid animals that people create by breeding one type of animal with a similar but different breed of animal.

One such weird animals is a Zonkey. To get a Zonkey you have to breed a male zebra with a female donkey. One of the big differences between a zebra and a donkey are that zebras depending on the species have between 42 and 62 chromosomes, while all donkeys only have 62 chromosomes. When you breed these two animals to produce a Zonkey it has the possibility of having any number of chromosomes between 42 and 62.

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