A rare 'zonkey' has been born in a China zoo, the result of a moment of passion between a female zebra and a donkey who shared an enclosure at Xiamen Haicang Zoo in the south-east of the country.
The zonkey/donkra came into the world on Sunday, sporting cute striped legs and pale lines down its brown body.
Staff at the zoo say the creature had a difficult birth as it choked on its mum's amniotic fluid, causing it to asphyxiate.
'We had to hold him upside down to remove and clean the fluid from his nose and mouth,' revealed the zoo's Lin Qiaoyong.
The zonkey weighed 30kg and was nearly a metre tall when it eventually arrived. When a male zebra mates with a female donkey - the opposite scenario to our new stripey pal - it is known as a zebroid, a creature that's apparently more common than a zonkey/donkra, according to people who know about these types of things.
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