There was a famous GB Shaw joke!
A beautiful woman once told George Bernard Shaw ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we got married and had a child with my beauty and your brains?’
Shaw, who let us just say that was not a very good looking man, replied: ‘That would be wonderful indeed, but what if our child had my beauty and your brains?’
It is funny but there seems to be some practicality in the combination!
Children are in fact a mixture of their parents and then some!
How every parent states his or her child acts or looks like him or her!
Then gain what if you have this ability of selecting the best of both parents and making the perfect combination? It is like an RPG where you get a character and you can mix and match his or her qualities! Some strength, some speed, some magical ability and voila; a perfect match!
Ethically though it cannot (officially at least!) be done in humans but this is a universal appeal in the animal industry!
Which is why you have the prized bull or the prized stud! In fact this is why you had the donkey in the first place! A donkey is a hard working horse without the attitude! What is you have an intelligent donkey! Well that’s a mule!
In fact the equine industry is full of such mix and match!
A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare). Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes. Of the two first-generation hybrids between these two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny, which is the offspring of a female donkey (jenny) and a male horse (stallion)!
The size of a mule and work to which it is put depend largely on the breeding of the mule’s mother (dam). Mules can be lightweight, medium weight, or when produced from draft mares, of moderately heavy weight.
Mules are more patient, hardy, and long-lived than horses, and are described as less obstinate and more intelligent than donkeys!
So if you are someone who has the horse as parent; don’t try to be another horse! Try to be a mule
Then again if you run like Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha then horse is your choice!
Shubh Ratri!
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