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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
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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

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