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A mule is a cross between a donkey and a horse and they are usually sterile. This is typically a female horse and male donkey and it should, theoretically, strengthen postzygotic barriers between horses and donkeys. It is a hybrid sterility type of reproductive barrier.
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Why cant a horse and donkey mate?
Yes, a donkey can get pregnant from horse sperm. Not many people breed animals like this anymore, but that is how people use to get light weighted horses, but it was usually a horse getting pregnant from donkey sperm. Any animal of the same species can get pregnant from each other. For example, a dog and a wolf, a wolf and a coyote, a tiger and a lion, a horse and a zebra, a horse and a donkey, all of these are possible.
What are biochemical characters?
Its When A Gorilla And A Orangutan Mate Or When A Horse Fly And A Horse Mate.
What do you get if a male horse and a female zebra mate?
I am not sure, i am guessing that it is just a horse with stripes, or something, never really thought about it. A zebra is a type if horse though, just a different branch...
Is calcium shiny?
why u asking me mate? i have a frickin donkey brain baby ohh yaa
How many chromosomes does an animal sperm have?
n/2 where n is the total number of chromosomes normally present in that animal.For example humans have 46 chromosomes in a somatic cell, and 23 chromosomes in a germ cell (sperm / egg).Different species often have different numbers of chromosomes. In fact different numbers of chromosomes are why a donkey and a horse can mate to produce a mule, but the mule cannot reproduce.
Which animals are sterile Donkeys or mules or can mule impregnant another mule?
Mules are sterile, a mule is the offspring of a donkey and horse, therefore sterile. A male mule can mate with a female mule, but will never get her pregnant.
What are asses?
The word "asses" means "several donkey-like animals". An ass is a mule, and is a cross between a horse and a donkey and the offspring are sterile. Therefore, when a horse and donkey mate, the resulting baby is one-generation only-- the offspring mule cannot reproduce with an ass, donkey, or mule because the mule is permanently sterile.
When a donkey and a horse mate what does the offspring look like?
It depends on what markings the horse and the donkey have.
Does donkeys and mules produce jack asses?
Yes, A jack is a male donkey. A Jennet is a female donkey. They mate and make more donkeys. A Jack can also mate with horses. They produce a mule. This is hybrid off spring is 99.9% sterile. Blue Moon is the name of a rare exception. I believe she is located in PA. and looks like a mule.
Can a zebra have babies with a donkey or a horse?
Yes! The babies are sterile. A donkey crossed with a zebra is commonly called a zorse, and a donkey crossed with a zebra is often called a zedonk.
Can a hinny get pregnant?
no a hinny does not carry the amount of chromosomes needed to allow it to sucessfully mate with a male donkey or horse and seeing that mules are sterile the same should apply to hinnnies.
What is the offspring of a horse and donkey called?
Mules are sterile--they won't mate with a horse, a mule, a donkey, or any other animal. They aren't breedable. That being said, there are two cases known in which a mule mated and gave birth to another hybrid. There isn't a name for a mule/horse hybrid because it's so rare. The actual animals were named Blue Moon and Lightning Strikes.
What make a donkey?
A donkey is a mixture of a male donkey and a female donkey and you are an idiot.
Can mules have offspring?
No. When a horse and a donkey mate, a mule is produced, but it is not a fertile animal. But despite this, it still fulfills the four criteria for life, because although not being able to reproduce, the cells in its body reproduce, hence the fourth criteria "All living things reproduce" is fulfilled.
What happens when a donkey and horse mate?
because the donkey a.k.a jackass is apart of the horse family.
A horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62?
Yes, this is why when they mate , the offspring cannot reproduce.
Can two females mate and produce offspring?
Some, yes. For example, a mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse (a hinny results when a male horse and female donkey are crossed). In the example given (a cross between a male donkey and a female horse). The offspring (the mule) would have a high probability of being sterile from birth.
