• Question: what other animals can you make, like zedonks?

    Asked by naomilol to Anouk, Chris, Judith, Leisha, Seyyed on 15 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Chris Kettle

      Chris Kettle answered on 15 Jun 2012:

      A zebra and a donkey eh? errrrmmmmmm. Not realy my speciality. But if i was an evil genius I’d have a good go. I love the flying monkies from The Wizard of Oz. My own flying henchmen. Mu-ha-haha

    • Photo: Judith Sleeman

      Judith Sleeman answered on 15 Jun 2012:

      As long as the chromosomes of two species of animal are roughly the same, then you can get odd hybrids like Zedonks. Usually it doesn’t happen because the different species don’t meet in their normal habitat. Mules are the best know hybrid: half horse, half donkey. They’re not new species, though, because a species needs to be able to reproduce itself. Mules and (as far as I know) Zedonks, are not fertile and only exist as hybrids.

      Those flying monkeys in the wizard of Oz used to frighten the bejeezus out of me when I was little!

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