Zebras and donkeys, despite both bearing a resemblance to horses, are different species. Donkeys are popular beasts of burden in developing countries and were domesticated millennia ago.

Even on days when Billy Ray is the only one at home, he's never lonely with the family's six horses, a cow, a handful of dogs and a Zebra Donkey named Eeyore to keep him company.

Arriving in the U.S., Dan quickly became the focus of a government program that sought to domesticate the zebra by cross-breeding the animals with domestic horses and donkeys.

One of the donkeys, Tucker, had gotten his leg stuck in a toy, and was not "talking back." Workers at the Long Island Game Farm say zebras, donkeys and horses communicate with each other all day long.

Zonkeys are rare, but Ippo is not the first donkey-zebra hybrid. In fact, all members of the horse family are able to interbreed, said Bruce Christensen, the chief of veterinary fertility at UC Davis.

Since zebras and donkeys are two different species of horses, their DNA and genetics don't quite match up. Even though the animals grow up healthy, they often aren't able to make offspring of ...

Donkeys are naturally infected with HBV as well as with HCV. Zebras are also infected with HBV; horses are also likely to be receptive, but in initial studies, the scientists could not confirm any ...

But unlike horses and donkeys, he said, zebras are not domesticated and their wild instincts tend to kick in. It’s why he’s wasn’t surprised to hear two ran away.

Modern equids (horses, donkeys and zebras) are "odd-toed ungulates" along with rhinoceroses and tapirs. The first equids appeared about 55 million years ago as small browsing animals with four toes.

Zebras and donkeys, despite both bearing a resemblance to horses, are different species. Donkeys are popular beasts of burden in developing countries and were domesticated millennia ago.

Zebras and donkeys, despite both bearing a resemblance to horses, are different species. Donkeys are popular beasts of burden in developing countries and were domesticated millennia ago.