Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:12147 misc.legal:4746 talk.politics.misc:9698 misc.jobs.misc:1698 sci.bio:1160 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mtunx!mtune!petsd!pedsga!lae From: lae@pedsga.UUCP Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable? Message-ID: <565@pedsga.UUCP> Date: 29 Apr 88 17:48:08 GMT References: <5018@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <479@goofy.megatest.UUCP> Reply-To: lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ann Ellis) Organization: Closet Philosophers Society Lines: 20 In article <479@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP writes: >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? When I lived on a ranch in Arizona we called the male mules "mules" and the female mules "jennies." Never heard of a hinny, though. Thanks for enlightening ME. Leslie -- ******************************************************************* * Kent for President. The Stars are our Birthright! * * Join us at USEnet:news.talk.bizarre. * *******************************************************************