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# When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey, You Get Very Adorable Results

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## Samantha Grossman


Apr 29, 2014 11:45 AM UTC

by 

[Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/)


## Samantha Grossman


Apr 29, 2014 11:45 AM UTC

Everyone, meet Khumba. His father, Ignacio, is a dwarf blue-eyed donkey, and his mother, Rayas, is a zebra. That makes him the very rare and special hybrid known as a “zonkey.” (Other accepted names include zebroid and — best of all — zebrass or zedonk.)

Khumba — who rocks some pretty awesome zebra-striped legs — was born on April 21 at the Reynosa Zoo in northeastern Mexico, NBC12 [reports](http://www.nbc12.com/story/25341749/zonkey-rare-crossbreed-born-in-northern-mexico-zoo). Make sure to watch him prancing like the adorable little lamb (er, zonkey) that he is in the video above.

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