June 20, 2015
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SPECIES:
Hold Your Zorses (Jason Bittel, 6/19/15, Slate)
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: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.

So much for Jared Diamond.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 20, 2015 11:37 AM
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