What do you get when you cross a zebra and a donkey? A "zonkey," of course!
當(dāng)斑馬和驢子交配后，會(huì)生下什么樣的后代呢？當(dāng)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.
上周，意大利佛羅倫薩附近的動(dòng)物保護(hù)區(qū)里，一只通過斑馬和驢子雜交的小生命出世了。這只名為“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(dāng)?shù)孛襟w報(bào)道，保護(hù)區(qū)官員說伊普身體十分健康。它是米亞塔驢和當(dāng)?shù)貏?dòng)物園所收養(yǎng)斑馬的雜交后代。生下這只斑驢純屬意外：一只愛意堅(jiān)定的雄性斑馬爬過籬笆，進(jìn)入母驢的領(lǐng)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(gè)小小的保護(hù)區(qū)沒有料想到會(huì)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(dú)一無二的斑驢?！彼齻兗易褰?jīng)營著這個(gè)保護(hù)區(qū)，通常只是收養(yǎng)被警察捕獲的動(dòng)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，但也不是那么鳳毛麟角。2010年就有一只斑驢出生在格魯吉亞的Chestatee野生動(dòng)物保護(hù)區(qū)，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，混種后代則被稱作“驢斑馬”。2011年中國也出現(xiàn)過驢和斑馬的混種。