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Zonkey brown   animals.net/zonkey/




The zonkey is a hybrid cross between a zebra and a donkey. Technically, a zonkey is the hybrid of a zebra father (sire) and a donkey mother (dam). Hybrids of a donkey father and zebra mother are called a “zedonk,” or sometimes a “donkra.” Hybrids of two types of zebra are commonly called “zebroid;” another hybrid is the “zorse,” which is a cross between a horse and a zebra.



Zebra/donkey hybrids do occur in nature, for example in South Africa, where zebras and donkeys live close to each other, but they are exceptionally rare. Zonkey hybrids have been bred in captivity since the 19th century.