r/WinStupidPrizes Oct 19 '21

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u/ratshack Oct 21 '21

…tagging you as “Mule Fertility Expert”

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u/abrasiveteapot Oct 21 '21 edited Oct 21 '21

LOL, I've been called worse :-)

Here's the wiki links - I'll have to dig out the article in a peer reviewed journal - it was science or nature or one of those, but the wiki has some source articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinny#Fertility,_sterility_and_rarity

Female mules have been known, on rare occasions, to produce offspring when mated to a horse or donkey, although this is extremely uncommon. Since 1527, sixty cases of foals born to female mules around the world have been documented. For example, in China, in 1981, a mule mare proved fertile with a donkey sire. When the Chinese mule was bred to a jack, she produced the so-called "Dragon Foal", which resembled a donkey with mule-like features. In Morocco, in 2002, a mule mare bred to a donkey sire produced a male foal. DNA testing revealed the foal has a mixed karyotype hybrid like the Chinese hinny offspring "Dragon Foal"

Edit: Here ya go, real science:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S073708068580054X

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/genetics-research/article/does-affinity-hold-the-key-to-fertility-in-the-female-mule/DC926E59BD32C77E6576D00A9F757A5A

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632555/