--- title: Zonkey: Zebra, Donkey Hybrid Born at Reynosa Zoo in Mexico description: Meet Khumba, the "zonkey" born last week at a Mexico Zoo canonical: https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-29T11:45:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:11.977Z og:title: Here's What Happens When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey og:description: An adorable little creature known as a "zonkey" og:url: https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Happens When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey twitter:description: An adorable little creature known as a "zonkey" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey, You Get Very Adorable Results by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/"},"headline":"When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey, You Get Very Adorable Results","datePublished":"2014-04-29T11:45:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:11.977Z","description":"Meet Khumba, the \"zonkey\" born last week at a Mexico Zoo","url":"https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Mexico"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/79965/zebra-donkey-hybrid/","name":"When You Cross a Zebra and a Donkey, You Get Very Adorable Results"}}]}] ```