We typically think of zebras and donkeys as completely separate ... Plainly speaking, a zonkey is a zebroid, or a hybrid ...

In the world of animal breeding ... making them a tough and resilient hybrid. Mules, the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, have been used for centuries in various forms of labor.

Common types include zorses (zebra-horse hybrids) and zeedonks (zebra-donkey hybrids). “We deliberately brought a horse last year due to not having a male zebra,” a zoo official added.