Talk:Zebroid

message: Nowhere does the article state whether Zebroids are fertile or infertile. Mules and hinnies are infertile as are most other mammalian hybrids. Is this, as a rule, also true of zebroids? Virgil H. Soule (talk) 01:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fertility 

message: What's the fastest, zebra, horse, zorse, or hebra?  Readers of this article want to know.  My money's on the Hebra! Chrisrus (talk) 06:47, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Speed

message: In the article's section "Historical and notable zebroids" the first link of Telegony point to Telegony which is a "lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus". I belive it have nothing to do with this article and that the link should point to Telegony (pregnancy) which is a "theory in heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent. Later on in the text such link existe but the first, if it is truly wrong is to be corrected. pc84 (talk) 18:28, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Thank you for pointing this out. Dana boomer (talk) 18:35, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telegony 

message: the wikipedia standard format of "also zedonk etc." is misleading because it leaves to the user to decipher that all of the combinations are called zebroids, but zedonk must only be with a donkey, etc. 
:A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. (Also called zedonk, zebra mule, and zebrule) 
also, the quagga article reflects the latest research that shows that quaggas are just a variant of one "actual" zebra species, so the mention of quagga in this article might reflect that 96.224.34.168 (talk) 19:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Go ahead and be WP:BOLD!Chrisrus (talk) 19:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  the "AKA" section should move  

message: Please exert some minimal restraint in reporting lists of ad-hoc portmanteau names. 
I have no doubt that people keep making them up in any number and completely ad hoc ( zonkey, zebonkey, zebronkey, zebrinny, zebrula, zebrass, zedonk, zebadonk)
but this is supposed to be an encyclopedia. Try to distinguish between random ad-hoc terms and terms actually used in the relevant literature. For the latter, cite a date for when they were first used, and if possible by whom they were introduced. If you cannot do that, please just 
refrain from inserting anything at all. --dab (𒁳) 09:31, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: We had separate articles on many of these, (zorse, zonkey, at a minimum) and merged them all into this one.  Some of these may well be overkill, (like "zebonkey" perhaps) but look at the redirects history.  Montanabw(talk) 09:12, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference used for this list of zebra/donkey hybrid terms itself references this article. I've tagged this circular reference. A bit of research suggests that "zonkey" does not appear to exist in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and in that dictionary "zebroid" is defined as "related to or resembling a zebra". Google ngram viewer shows no hits for zebonkey, zebronkey, zebrinny, zebrula, zebrass, and zebadonk, but *does* show results for "zonkey" and "zedonk". On "zonkey" the earliest reference is this 1954 book  where the term is associated with "Mr Gene Holter", a "California zoo man". The story of the "zonkey reveal" is later used in various English test preparation texts. The first reference for "zedonk" seems to be in 1984: "Despite the New Yorker and Sir Alec, the better bet for longevity, at least among the z words, is zedonk. This is the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey, a blissout that first hit the barnyards in the mid-1970s." . Pvanheus (talk) 07:40, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  One final terminology note. Recently there has been discussion of the term "debra". Unfortunately this is quite difficult to research, but the earliest references I can find refer to a "Debra the Zonkey" 1 and 2. While there is an analogy here with "ligers" and "tigons", it doesn't look like "debra" is gaining a lot of traction as a term. Pvanheus (talk) 12:43, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

text:  As no one commented further on the plethora of unsourced terms, I have removed all terms except ones for which I can find evidence - i.e. zonkey and zedonk. Pvanheus (talk) 08:46, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: Hi, I arrived on this page from the Italian equivalent
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrallo ,
intrigued by the high variability of the number of chromosomes of zebras (from 32 to 64, as I read here).
Now, apart from the fact that the italian page reports a different range (from 44 to 62), can anyone explain the reason why of such this peculiarity?
As far as I know virtually all felines, from cat to lion have 38 chromosomes, all breeds of dog 78 and all of the horses, from ponies to Shires have 64...
thanks in advance!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.41.205.57 (talk) 11:58, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of chromosomes 

message: The page contains the claim "In South Africa, they occur where zebras and donkeys are found in proximity to each other" with no source. While I can find a page (https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/zonkie-the-zonkey-is-a-happy-soul-says-owner-20160113) about a zonkey in South Africa, it has no info on the provenance of this animal. The news report does however state (without a source) that zonkeys occur in "parts of Africa" due to wild donkey herds roaming in the same areas as zebras. Another case is reported from Kenya (https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/zonkey?fbclid=IwAR3FzckDLijCSUBb0wEpahfp_CN-yV4WJ5RiTr0G722jUcYAtJFxL2zMJGM). I have contacted the owner of Zonkie the Zonkey to find out more about this animal's parenting. As to roaming herds of wild donkeys, the African wild ass has limited range (http://www.equids.org/afwass.php) that does not appear to overlap with zebra ranges. While feral donkeys do exist in parts of South Africa (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2018.1557018) again there is no clear evidence that they are interbreeding with zebras. Pvanheus (talk) 08:45, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That should probably be removed if a better source can't be found. Until then, I'm for leaving it in just in case. BuySomeApples (talk) 09:44, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prevalence in (South) Africa 

message: Oaklawn farm zoo in Nova Scotia, Canada has historically and continues to have Zonkeys on display to this day 47.55.95.160 (talk) 22:34, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zonkeys today