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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Message-ID: <479@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 20:41:59 GMT
References: <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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in article <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) says:
> 
> In article <475@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>>in article <2924@saturn.ucsc.edu>, kevin@chromo.ucsc.edu (Kevin McLoughlin) says:
>>> 
>>...
>>
>>> you know what happens when you mate a horse with a donkey.
>>> A mule is sterile, but it IS a real creature, and it's neither clearly
>>> a horse nor clearly a donkey; it has characteristics of both.
>>
>>...
>>
>>Recently a mule somewhere in the midwest -- sorry I can't remember
>>where -- foaled for the second time.  Apparently it's not a hoax.
>>Such an event had been recorded only once previously.  Needless to say,
>>lot's of people are VERY interested in this particluar animal.  The 
>>offspring is a funny looking fuzzy thing that looks something like a Shetland.
> 
> 
> Well, a hinny might have foaled, but a _mule_?  That would really get some
> attention all right!
> 
> Kent, the man from xanth.


The article definitely said, "mule".  What's wrong with that?

I'm willing to be educated on this one.  My dictionary says of "mule"

	"a hybrid between a horse and an ass."

and of "hinny"

	"a hybrid between a stallion and a she-ass -- compare MULE."

From this it would seem that a hinny _is_ a mule. But I can't draw any
conclusion about the sex of the offspring.

Who can enlighten the city slicker?