HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -A cross between a male zebra and a female donkey is a zonkey. Horse-donkey crosses are an exception to this naming convention. A mule is the cross between female horse and male donkey. A hinny is the cross of male horse and female donkey; mules and hinnies are reciprocal hybrids.

Detailed explanation-2: -mule, the hybrid offspring of a male ass (jackass, or jack) and a female horse (mare). The less-frequent cross between a female ass and a male horse results in a hinny, or hinney, which is smaller than a mule.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mule: The result of a donkey stallion mating with a female horse. Mules tend to have the head of a donkey and the extremities of a horse. Hinny: The result of a horse stallion mating with a female donkey. Hinnies are less common than mules and there might be subtle differences in appearance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hybrids are crosses between two difference species, so they contain 50% of genes from each parent species [1]. A famous hybrid is the mule, a cross between a donkey and a horse. Fifty percentage of a mule’s genes are from a horse and 50% from a donkey.

Detailed explanation-5: -The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare).