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Stories about: zebra

Nature's Latest Creation – the Zedonk This week, the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in north Georgia, United States, welcomed the first zebra-donkey hybrid in America. The “zedonk” has a donkey for a mother and a zebra stallion for a father and it is quite a rare animal. The animal is a mix between a zebra and donkey. With black stripes prominen... 30 July 2010 10:14 GMT Zebras, the Horses of the African Savanna Zebras represent a symbol of the African savanna. But, did you know that their evolution (and that of horses and asses) started 54 million years ago, in North America, with Hyracotherium, a fox sized animal with four toed fore limbs and three toed rear limbs? They lived in forests, but 20 million years ago, the clime... 7 December 2007 02:36 GMT Meet the Zorse: Half Zebra, Half Horse No, this is not about insufficient white paint. Because this is not an incompletely painted zebra. There is no artificial coloring on the animal you see. This a female zorse: her father is a zebra, while her mother is a mare, this being the classical example of how a child receives a mix of genes from both progenitor... 28 June 2007 06:22 GMT