# Zonkey or a deebra? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917 "2005-05-01T02:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/1 "2005-05-01T02:22:48Z")
You see, the Christian Right knew this would happen once the “homer-sexuals” started fighting for the right to marry. Now the animal kingdom is getting into the act. > [@](#): > > ST. THOMAS, Barbados - It’s male. But what is it? A zonkey? A deebra? That’s the debate in Barbados since a zebra gave birth to a foal sired by a donkey. [Full story here.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7677651/) What’s next? Cat and dogs living together in communes having orgies every night? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/2 "2005-05-01T02:29:17Z")
I vote for Zonky. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/3 "2005-05-01T02:35:50Z")
Definitely Zonky. It’s just so zany. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/4 "2005-05-01T02:40:47Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > What’s next? [Breathless in Anticipation] Ligers. [/BiA] ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/5 "2005-05-01T02:42:42Z")
Don’t get me started on Ligers. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/6 "2005-05-01T03:00:30Z")
By coincidence, I just found [this](http://www.collegehumor.com/?image_id=138480) . Link may not be work safe. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/7 "2005-05-01T04:06:31Z")
I’d call it sterile. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/8 "2005-05-01T04:26:24Z")
Why, some of my best friends are Zonkeys. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/9 "2005-05-01T23:20:53Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Don’t get me started on Ligers. The liger already exists. And there was a wholphin (whale+dolphin) last month. So I say cats and dogs is next. Should it be a cog or a dat? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/10 "2005-05-02T00:03:42Z")
Isn’t there a naming convention already? Ligers = male lion x female tiger Tigon = male tiger x female lion So Zonkey = male zebra x female donkey debra = male donkey x female zebra ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/11 "2005-05-02T00:50:48Z")
A foal was born last year in California to a female zebra who had been impregnated by a jackass. The offspring was called a [zonkey](http://www.nbc10.com/news/3450567/detail.html), so that term seems applicable in the Barbados case as well. Had the sire been a zebra and the dam a jenny (female donkey), the foal would have been a [zedonk.](http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/zedonk) Also, any zebra-donkey offspring can be termed a [zebrass.](http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-mammals.html) At least that’s one version of the truth – various sites define these terms in various ways, and introduce other linguistic hybrids to the mix. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/12 "2005-05-02T01:21:49Z")
I call it cute. Lookit his little fuzzy head! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zonkey-or-a-deebra/301917/13 "2005-05-02T02:42:43Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > A foal was born last year in California to a female zebra who had been impregnated by a jackass. Yeah, well I know a lot of males in California who… oh never mind.