Zorse

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A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. It is a zebroid: this term refers to any hybrid equine with zebra ancestry.

The zorse is shaped more like a horse than a zebra, but has boldly striped legs and, often, stripes on the body or neck. Like most other interspecies hybrids, it is infertile.

Lord Morton bred a number of zebra/horse hybrids in the 1800s. His experiments were reported in "Philosoph. Transact." 1821 page 20. The parents were a chestnut, nearly purely-bred, Arabian mare and a male quagga. According to a letter from the Earl of Morton to the President of the Royal Society in 1821: In the year 1815 Lord Morton put a male quagga to a young chestnut mare of seven eighths Arabian blood, which had never before been bred from. The result was a female hybrid which resembled both parents."

Cossar Ewart, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh (1882-1927) and a keen geneticist, crossed a zebra stallion with horse and pony mares in order to investigate the theory of telegony, or paternal impression. Cossar Ewart used Arabian mares. Similar experiments were carried out by the US Government and reported in "Genetics in Relation to Agriculture" by E B Babcock and RE Clausen and in "The Science of Life" by H G Wells, J Huxley and GP Wells (c.1929).