What is the donkey baby name?

Foal: A foal is a baby male or female donkey up to one year old. Gelding: A castrated male donkey. Mare: A female donkey.
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Is a donkey a baby horse?

What is a baby horse called? It's called a foal. A foal is a baby horse, donkey, mule, zebra or pony under one year old. If you need to specify what species the foal is of, you can describe a baby zebra as a zebra foal, a baby donkey as a donkey foal or a baby mule as a mule foal.
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What are the adult name for donkey?

The name of a baby donkey is a foal. An adult male donkey is called a jack. A castrated male donkey is called a gelding.
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What is the baby horse?

Foal = a baby horse. Filly = a female foal. Colt = a male foal.
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What is the name of horse baby?

A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
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Is a mule a donkey?

Mule: The result of a donkey stallion mating with a female horse. Mules tend to have the head of a donkey and the extremities of a horse. Hinny: The result of a horse stallion mating with a female donkey. Hinnies are less common than mules and there might be subtle differences in appearance.
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What is a horse and donkey baby called?

A hinny is a domestic equine hybrid that is the offspring of a male horse (a stallion) and a female donkey (a jenny). It is the reciprocal cross to the more common mule, which is the product of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare).
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Is a zebra a horse or donkey?

However, zebras are no more horses than donkeys are. While zebras, donkeys and horses, all belong to the equine species, they each have distinct characteristics of their own. Zebras and donkeys are more closely related to each other than they are to horses.
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What is camel baby called?

Baby camels are called calves.
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What is the baby name of kangaroo?

The baby kangaroo, called a joey, spends about 235 days in the mother's pouch.
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What is sheep baby called?

Sheep A baby sheep is called a lamb. A ewe can have a single lamb or twins. Triplets sometimes occur.
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Is a giraffe a horse?

The giraffe is a tall African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes were thought to be one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies.
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Are zonkeys real?

A “zonkey” is a hybrid cross produced by mating a zebra and a donkey. Zonkeys are not a true species because they have an odd number of chromosomes and cannot reproduce. While zonkeys are rare, they are bred in a number of zoos and specialized farms around the world.
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Do mules have tails?

Mules have long ears, a thin, short, possibly upright mane and a tail which in part has shortish hairs but also long hairs like a horse tail. The mule's tail can be much fuller and longer than a donkey's.
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What is called Elephant baby?

What about a baby? Elephants have little in common with cattle, but they share with them the names for adult male (bull), adult female (cow) and juvenile (calf).
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What is giraffe baby called?

A baby giraffe is called a calf.
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Is a colt a baby donkey?

The Definition of "Colt"

Strictly speaking, a colt is an uncastrated (intact) male horse, pony, donkey, or mule younger than four years of age. The word is pronounced to rhyme with "bolt." The term's proper usage takes into account the fact that the baby horse is a male.
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Is a burro a donkey?

Burros are just small donkeys with long hair. Burro is the Spanish, Portuguese or Mexican name for donkey.
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Is a zebra a horse?

Is a zebra a horse? Zebras are closely related to horses but they're not the same species. They're both in the Equidae family and they can even breed with each other. The offspring (zebroids) have different names dependent on the parents.
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Can a horse mate a donkey?

You're right, a horse and a donkey can have babies together. A male horse and a female donkey have a hinny. A female horse and a male donkey have a mule. But hinnies and mules can't have babies of their own.
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What is Rabbit baby called?

Young. A young rabbit is called a “kit”.
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What is the frog baby called?

Froglet (or young frog)
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What is cow baby called?

baby cow is called a calf. A female calf is sometimes called a heifer calf and a male a bull calf.
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Do giraffes have 3 hearts?

How Many Hearts Do We Have? You surely know that humans and giraffes have just one heart, as most animals do—but not all. Octopuses and squids (animals called cephalopods) have three hearts. Two hearts pump blood to the gills to take up oxygen, and the other pumps blood around the body (Figure 1).
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