可愛小斑驢:斑馬和驢子的混血寶寶
What do you get when you cross a zebra and a donkey? A "zonkey," of course!
當斑馬和驢子交配後，會生下什麼樣的後代呢？當然是只“斑驢”！In a rare birth in Italy, an animal reserve near Florence welcomed a zebra-donkey hybrid to the world last week. Named Ippo, the zonkey looks like a typical donkey, but carries the stripes of a zebra.
上週，意大利佛羅倫薩附近的動物保護區裏，一隻通過斑馬和驢子雜交的小生命出世了。這隻名爲“伊普”的斑驢和普通驢子很像，只是身上多了斑馬的條紋。Officials said Ippo is in good health, according to local reports. The offspring of a breed of donkey from Amiata and a zebra adopted from a local zoo, the zonkey was not bred intentionally: A determined male zebra scaled a fence to get into a female donkey's enclosure.
當地媒體報道，保護區官員說伊普身體十分健康。它是米亞塔驢和當地動物園所收養斑馬的雜交後代。生下這隻斑驢純屬意外：一隻愛意堅定的雄性斑馬爬過籬笆，進入母驢的領地。
However, it seems the unintentional birth is a boon for the small sanctuary, which often takes in animals seized by police. "Ippo is the only one of his kind in Italy," Serena Aglietti, a member of the family that owns the reserve, told ANSA news service.
然而這個小小的保護區沒有料想到會因此收到一份大禮。瑟瑞娜告訴意大利安莎新聞社說：“伊普是意大利獨一無二的斑驢。”她們家族經營着這個保護區，通常只是收養被警察捕獲的動物。While a zebra-donkey hybrid is unique, its existence is not that uncommon. In 2010, another zonkey with a zebra father and donkey mother was born at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia.
雖然斑馬和驢子的混種很特別，但也不是那麼鳳毛麟角。2010年就有一隻斑驢出生在格魯吉亞的Chestatee野生動物保護區，爸爸是斑馬，媽媽是驢子。Interestingly, a cross between a donkey father and zebra mother is referred to as a "donkra." A donkey-zebra hybrid was born at a Chinese zoo in 2011.
有趣的是，要是爸爸是驢子、媽媽是斑馬，混種後代則被稱作“驢斑馬”。2011年中國也出現過驢和斑馬的混種。-
