. Horses, asses, zebras, mules, and mule breeding. Mules; Horses. fiS HYBRID EQJJIB^. utilised would no doubt produce most valuable h-ybrid offspring. The hybrids of the Burchell zebra ^rith the horse have already been mentioned : it also breeds freely with the common ass. In the Gardens of the Zoological Society at Melbourne there are some Burchell's zebras that were bred in Paris, for this most useful animal breeds treely in crmfinement. On September 6th. 1892. an experiment. BUECHELL S ZEBEA AJTD HTBEID FOAL. (From a photograph. was made by crossing the zebra with a white so-called Siamese
. Horses, asses, zebras, mules, and mule breeding. Mules; Horses. fiS HYBRID EQJJIB^. utilised would no doubt produce most valuable h-ybrid offspring. The hybrids of the Burchell zebra ^rith the horse have already been mentioned : it also breeds freely with the common ass. In the Gardens of the Zoological Society at Melbourne there are some Burchell's zebras that were bred in Paris, for this most useful animal breeds treely in crmfinement. On September 6th. 1892. an experiment. BUECHELL S ZEBEA AJTD HTBEID FOAL. (From a photograph. was made by crossing the zebra with a white so-called Siamese ass, which was obviously a variety of the domesti- cated Equus asinus. The foal was born on October 25th, 1893, showing that the period of gestation in Burchell's zebra resembles that of the ass in being considerably over twelve months. The young one is descril^ed as a strono-,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912; Sutherland, C. L. London, H. Cox
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