A female zebra in Fujian Wildlife Park was actually pregnant, but there was not a single male zebra in the whole zoo, how did she get pregnant? The keeper who raises the female zebra every day regrets it, and he obviously takes good care of it, how did this zebra get pregnant?
zebra
After a while, the zebra mother gave birth to a freak, this little freak is also very strange- looking, only with a zebra pattern on its legs. This can be difficult for the experts, looking left and right did not see what this little guy is what kind of creature? How do you name it? The story also begins with the Fujian Wild Animal Park.
The "widowed" zebra's belly was unexpectedly large
Many zoos will introduce good-looking zebras, this safari park is no exception, but unfortunately, the same batch of introduced zebras are sick and dead, leaving only a single female zebra, for the remaining only zebra, the keeper is very concerned, afraid that this female zebra will be depressed,
But suddenly one day, they found a serious problem, the female zebra belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day, this discovery makes the staff very anxious, the stomach suddenly grew, is the female zebra fat, or sick? Who knew that giving a zebra a check actually stunned everyone, and this zebra was actually pregnant! It is reasonable to say that this zebra is pregnant, how come the staff are all startled?
The original pair of zebras, now only this female zebra, the zebra's pregnancy period is generally about 12 months, but the male zebra died a year ago, and the female zebra cannot get pregnant before that. There is only one female zebra, how did she get pregnant? In this belly, whose bones and blood is it?
For a while, everyone in the zoo was speculating about who the baby's father really was. But when I think about it, I can't think of anyone who can make the zebra obediently pregnant. Zebras, which are actually not very good-tempered, are not only alert, but even if they have been in the zoo for a long time, they do not like strangers to be close.
This is also the reason why humans have developed for so many years and have not tamed zebras, and today zebras can only be kept in zoos. Since zebra is not close to anyone, who will she look at in the zoo? Everyone waited and waited, waiting for the little one in the mother zebra's belly to be born to find out.
Pony
Breeders speculate about who the "perpetrator" really is
The place where the female zebra lives is a free-range place, and this land is free-range with zebras, ponies, sika deer and many other herbivores, and there are keepers who feed them regularly every day.
Zebra mom
There is also a small pool where these herbivores can drink and swim, and all the animals in it can live freely. The female zebra's active area is only here, and the zebra's pregnant object can only be generated in animals that are active in this area.
sika deer
Before the zebra gives birth, the keepers observe every day which one is more likely to be a father.
After a period of observation, the keepers all agreed that the ponies that could be with the zebra were the most likely. And it just so happened that those ponies were still male ponies.
Pony
And according to the observation of the breeder, the female zebra usually plays more with these handsome ponies. At this time, the zebra is also approaching the due date, and everyone is carrying a heart, intending to verify whether it is the offspring of the pony.
Zebras and ponies
The breeder carefully waited for the production of the female zebra, one evening, the female zebra finally appeared to be a harbinger of production, and the female zebra that was about to be produced was very tossed at night, and had been running in the park.
Zebras to be produced
Zebras, who originally lived in Africa, are very vigilant by nature, and do not let people get close at all, and the worried breeders can only follow from a distance, afraid of any accidents in zebras.
Keeper
It wasn't until the wee hours of the morning that the zebra mother finally gave birth to the little one in her belly. The normally produced foal can walk on its own soon after birth, and it can breed when it is three or four years old, and the little guy born to the zebra mother is no exception, and can soon walk on its own, but this little guy looks really can't be said, because it is really weird.
Little monsters
The female zebra actually gave birth to a little monster, who is the father of this little monster?
This little guy doesn't look like his mother, but he still has a little bit of zebra black and white stripes on his limbs and shoulder blades, and zoo people speculate that the fetal hair on the little guy's body may look like a female zebra after shedding, but looking at the appearance of this little guy, this statement is really unconvincing. This little guy can only say, a bit like Mom. Elsewhere, unlike mom, she had slender limbs and a tall, thin figure.
Little monster and mom
The staff initially guessed that Dad might be a pony, and that the little guy was a bit of a skewer, but looked a lot like another animal, a donkey. And as the little guy grew up, the breeder found that it looked more and more like a donkey, could it be that the little guy's father was actually a donkey? But how can a proud zebra look up to a donkey? Besides, can zebras and donkeys also give birth to offspring?
Little monster's feet
Although zebras and donkeys are both animals of the equine family, but it is true that they are of different populations, it is reasonable to say that it is impossible to produce offspring, but in reality there are cases where domestic horses and donkeys give birth to mules.
donkey
In the free-range area, it is often seen that the donkey pursues the pony, and the donkey falls in love with the pony in front of him at first sight, and even scolds him in order to prove that he can't fight back. No matter how much the pony didn't like it, the donkey kept following. Could it be that this female zebra is so lonely that she has a relationship with one of the donkeys?
Blame the baby
But according to experts, in fact, this kind of hybridization is easy to produce reproductive isolation, even if you can get pregnant, there are very few offspring, and under the intervention of the zoo, zebras and donkeys live in an environment, and actually normally pregnant and give birth to healthy cubs, but can this mixed-race little guy grow up healthy in the future, and then continue to breed offspring?
donkey
In the end, experts concluded that the strange baby born was only one of the exceptions, and it was difficult for crossbreeding of different races to produce healthy cubs.
Blame the baby
After the baby was born, he followed the zebra mother every day, until one day, the staff finally heard the cry of the baby, which turned out to be an authentic donkey call.
Ponies and donkeys
After the test of experts, this strange baby has both donkey genes and zebra genes in the body, so experts want to call it a donkey, but the data shows that the donkey was once an independent species, and now extinct, this strange baby can not be regarded as an independent species, it is a cross between zebra and donkey, called donkey spotted beast is more appropriate.
Spotted donkey beast and mother
Dna testing for the little donkey beast needs further testing, but now it is still small, and it needs to be a little older to test it. Have you ever encountered any strange animals in your life? Let's take a look at it in the comments section.