Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:11447 misc.legal:4631 talk.politics.misc:9278 misc.jobs.misc:1662 sci.bio:1132 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!bsu-cs!neubauer From: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable? Message-ID: <2728@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 88 16:37:03 GMT References: <2924@saturn.ucsc.edu> <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 19 In article <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >In article <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes: >> >>Recently a mule somewhere in the midwest -- sorry I can't remember >>where -- foaled for the second time. Apparently it's not a hoax. > >Well, a hinny might have foaled, but a _mule_? That would really get some >attention all right! Actually, the difference between a mule and a hinny has to do with the sexes and species of its _parents_, not with its own sex. A mule (male or female) has a mare (female horse) for a mother and a jack (male donkey) for a father. A hinny (male or female) has a stallion for a father and a female donkey for a mother. Sorry, Kent, it would actually be a lot more unusual for a hinny to have foaled because there are a lot fewer hinnies (they are smaller, so less econmically valuable). -- Paul Neubauer neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!neubauer