Zorse Images Collection (Zebroid)

Zorse images - A zebroid (also zedonk, zorse, zebra mule, zonkey, and zebmule) is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century. Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works. (Wikipedia)

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Zorse Images

By Sarah Hartwell (User Messybeast) on en.wikipedia. Uploaded by self there. - Own work, 2004., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1120700

By Christine und David Schmitt - originally posted to Flickr as Zorse, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8269681

By Kumana @ Wild Equines - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3645/3322859004_4224a726b8.jpg?v=0, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6076965

CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=209265

Images of Zorse

Zebroids physically resemble their nonzebra parent, but are striped like a zebra. The stripes generally do not cover the whole body, and might be confined to the legs or spread onto parts of the body or neck. If the nonzebra parent was patterned (such as a roan, Appaloosa, Pinto horse/paint, piebald, or skewbald), this pattern might be passed down to the zebroid, in which case the stripes are usually confined to nonwhite areas. The alternative name "golden zebra" relates to the interaction of zebra striping and a horse's bay or chestnut colour to give a zebra-like black-on-bay or black-on-chestnut pattern that superficially resembles the quagga. In zebra-donkey hybrids, there is usually a dorsal (back) stripe and a ventral (belly) stripe.
Zorses combine the zebra striping overlaid on colored areas of the hybrid's coat. Zorses are most often bred using solid color horses. If the horse parent is piebald (black and white) or skewbald (other color and white), the zorse may inherit the dominant depigmentation genes for white patches. It is understood that tobiano (the most common white modifier found in the horse) directly interacts with the zorse coat to give the white markings. Only the nondepigmented areas will have zebra striping, resulting in a zorse with white patches and striped patches. This effect is seen in the zebroid named Eclyse (a hebra rather than a zorse) born in Stukenbrock, Germany, in 2007 to a zebra mare called Eclipse and a stallion called Ulysses.

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