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Post by jefe on Jun 15, 2004 21:32:48 GMT -5
Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered about this. Since they are the product of a horse and a donkey, they are infertile so cannot reproduce, so what do they do? Can they reproduce in vitro or something, or can they be cloned?
Since mules appeared in Hong Kong this past week, I have started to wonder again.
Is the effect on them similar to the effect on infertile humans (who may not be affected at all in their sexual activity). Or is it similar to eunuchs?
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Post by legacy on Jun 15, 2004 21:50:29 GMT -5
It seems as though they do... Mule: The hybrid animal produced when a male ass (Jack) is crossed with a female horse. The mule is a sterile hybrid, meaning it cannot reproduce. Mules come in both male and female. A tiny percentage of female mules have had foals, but this is considered a freak genetic accident. Here's a good site about mules in general. They sound like good animals! www.imh.org/imh/bw/mule.html |
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Post by jefe on Jun 15, 2004 22:32:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the URL. But it doesn't explain exactly why mules are sterile and what sexual behavior they have. I really would like to know. Do they simply not produce sperm and ovum? Do they not ejaculate or ovulate? Is it in the hormones (i.e., no sex drive and therefore no sexual response)?
You know, I think that in my childhood, someone had used the mule argument to explain why interracial sex and hybrid children are BAD -- they are somehow not suitable for reproduction. After all, if horses and donkeys can interbreed, they could not exactly be different species. But they produce offspring that cannot reproduce themselves. I forgot who told me that interracial children are like mules (must have been some people I encountered in the segregationalist south of my childhood).
Also, as donkeys and horses can interbreed, but produce sterile children, they must have been the same species at one point in the past. Where in the evolutionary development did they develop this idiosyncracy when they interbreed?
I also read last week about how most of the human male population share just a few genetically distinct Y chromosones and how each succeeding male population will have lower fertility, until females will not be able to reproduce with normal males. They have already developed technology where DNA from two eggs can be recombined to form a genetically distinct female.
If only it was proven one day that the secret to the future of the human race is accelerated breeding of interracial males with relatively rare Y chromosones needed to maintain male fertility. Or will it be proven that males are not even needed?
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Post by legacy on Jun 15, 2004 22:44:13 GMT -5
well since SOME mules have been known to successfully reproduce, i figure they all do the nasty.
Once someone invents a vibrator that doubles as a spider-killer, we're done for, man.
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Post by cel2 on Jun 16, 2004 7:37:21 GMT -5
Once someone invents a vibrator that doubles as a spider-killer, we're done for, man. hahaha!! |
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Post by EA Observer on Jun 16, 2004 7:59:58 GMT -5
Even without for reproductive purpose, both men and women will need each other play that age-old "Me Tarzan, You Jane" roles.   |
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Post by PerzanKitCat86205 on Jun 20, 2008 13:58:57 GMT -5
Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered about this. Since they are the product of a horse and a donkey, they are infertile so cannot reproduce, so what do they do? Can they reproduce in vitro or something, or can they be cloned? Since mules appeared in Hong Kong this past week, I have started to wonder again. Is the effect on them similar to the effect on infertile humans (who may not be affected at all in their sexual activity). Or is it similar to eunuchs? This is the page all my friends are still on, even though it isn't 2004, if it has to do with anything. |
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Post by viruslabrat on Jun 20, 2008 14:36:48 GMT -5
Your friends have been reading about mule sex since 2004??  |
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Jun 20, 2008 16:53:20 GMT -5
Ever since I was a little kid, I always wondered about this. Since they are the product of a horse and a donkey, they are infertile so cannot reproduce, so what do they do? Can they reproduce in vitro or something, or can they be cloned? Since mules appeared in Hong Kong this past week, I have started to wonder again. Is the effect on them similar to the effect on infertile humans (who may not be affected at all in their sexual activity). Or is it similar to eunuchs? This is the page all my friends are still on, even though it isn't 2004, if it has to do with anything. |
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