It's usually a horse. If it's a donkey, the animal is called a hinny. However, any two species of equid can be crossed, so the mother could be an onager and the father a kiang or a zebra.
mule. When a male donkey is bred to a female horse, it is a mule. However, if the dad was a horse rather than a donkey, and the mother was a jenney(female donkey) instead of a mare (making the mother the father and the father the mother) you would get a Hinny. But since it was a donkey with a mare, it was just a plain old Mule.
hinny
A mule is the hybrid cross of a donkey jack for a father and a mare (horse) for a mother.
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.
A saddle mule is a mule used for transportation or riding, were as a pack mule is a mule used solely for transporting luggage rather then people.
mule. When a male donkey is bred to a female horse, it is a mule. However, if the dad was a horse rather than a donkey, and the mother was a jenney(female donkey) instead of a mare (making the mother the father and the father the mother) you would get a Hinny. But since it was a donkey with a mare, it was just a plain old Mule.
hinny
A mule is the hybrid cross of a donkey jack for a father and a mare (horse) for a mother.
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.
Yes, this is called a hinny and is sterile as, like a mule, it inherits an odd number of chromosomes, in this case 31 from its mother and 32 from its father.
mule = Maultier mule = Muli
A saddle mule is a mule used for transportation or riding, were as a pack mule is a mule used solely for transporting luggage rather then people.
Mule Skinner
mule = Maultier mule = Muli
A donkey can have offspring that is a mule, a mule cannot have offspring that is a donkey.
tête de mule (addressing the stubborn mule), têtu/têtue comme une mule (describing someone as stubborn as a mule) are standard French expressions.
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