June 20, 2015

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SPECIES:

Hold Your Zorses (Jason Bittel, 6/19/15, Slate)

Mix a zebra and a horse, and you get a zorse. Swap the horse for a donkey, and you have yourself a zonkey. When a pony and a zebra love each other very much, you wind up with a zoni.

On Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys, he visited the museum containing Lord Rothschild's animal collection, including the zebras he trained to pull a carriage:

Rothschild with his zebra carriage, which he drove to Buckingham Palace to demonstrate the tame character of Zebras to the public

So much for Jared Diamond.

Posted by at June 20, 2015 11:37 AM
  

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