The most common hybrid is the mule, a cross between a " jack " ( male donkey ) and a mare.

" He explained that a mule is part horse, part donkey, combining traits of each.

: In mule spinning the roving is pulled off a bobbin and fed through rollers, which are feeding at several different speeds. This thins the roving at a consistent rate.

Also prepared on the grill is a sandwiched taco called mulita (" little mule ") made with meat served between two tortillas and garnished with Oaxaca style cheese.

** The spinning mule is perfected by the Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton.

The Bald Eagle is noted for having flown with the heaviest load verified to be carried by any flying bird, since one eagle flew with a mule deer fawn.

Some images are motivated by the biography of the person depicted, but some designs just draw their motif from the poet's name ( thus, Dietmar is shown riding a mule, since his name can be interpreted as meaning people's horse ), while others draw on imagery from their lyrics ( Walther von der Vogelweide is shown in a thoughtful pose which exactly matches the description of himself in one of his most famous songs ).

Stotting is so specialized that only 100 % genetically pure mule deer seem able to do it.

It is estimated that about seventy percent ( or more ) of the wagons traveling west were pulled by oxen ; mule teams were a strong second choice at 20 – 30 %, and initially there were almost no horse-pulled wagons.

Today much of the canal is a long, thin park with canoeing and a hiking and biking trail ( constructed on the alignment of the mule tow paths ).

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

Of the two F1 hybrids between these two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny ( the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey ).

While there is no known instance of a male mule siring offspring, female mules have on very rare occasion given birth to viable offspring.

The size of a mule and work to which it is put depends largely on the breeding of the mule's dam.

A female mule that has estrus cycles and thus, in theory, could carry a fetus, is called a " molly " or " Molly mule ," though the term is sometimes used to refer to female mules in general.

One of several terms for a gelded mule is a " John mule.

The median weight range for a mule is between about.

One of the virtues of the mule is that a mule has the size and ground-covering ability of a horse, but is comparatively stronger than a horse of similar size and inherits the endurance and disposition of the donkey father.

In at least two urban areas ( Maputsoe and Mafeteng ) a small number of transport entrepreneurs use carts or wagons with pneumatic tyres pulled mainly by single horses ( and occasionally by two donkeys or a mule ).

During the march, Urban fell from his mule at Narni and had to recover in early October in Rome, where he was able to oust the communal rule of the banderesi and restore the Papal authority.

Porcupines, shrews, red squirrels, tassel eared Kaibab and Abert's squirrels, black bear, mule deer, and elk are found at the park's higher elevations on the Kaibab Plateau.

" There happened also a portent of another kind while he was still at Sardis ,— a mule brought forth young and gave birth to a mule " ( Herodotus The Histories 7: 57 ).

There are still at least sixteen commercial mule pack stations in business in the Sierra Nevada.

In 2003, researchers at University of Idaho and Utah State University produced the first mule clone as part of Project Idaho.

The pass however was not more than a trackway for mule trains and carts until a carriage road was laid out in 1777 at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa.

The road at this time was merely a horse and mule trail.

The road at this time was merely a horse and mule trail.

Mail and package delivery to the community is thus delayed ; delivery time for mail from Bullhead City, Arizona, via the United States Postal Service is at least a week because it is carried out by mule.

The troops started their mule trail at " Infantry Camp " at the foot of Picket Post and then extended it into Picket Post Creek ( later called Queen Creek ).

White American explorers discovered gold at the site on July 2, 1862, and later that year United States Army Captain Jason L. Fisk brought a mule train from Minnesota which stopped at the site and built the first houses that became Montana City.

The Horseshoe mine was opened in 1772 by the Englishmen Spargo and Harvey who shipped ore by horse and mule to the forges at Sparta and Hopewell.

The town was founded by John William Wood Sr. ( December 28, 1855-October 31, 1928 ) who rode to it each morning on a mule and wagon from his home at Peacocks Crossroads near Meadow, North Carolina.

The Rio Grande was about a mile south of the camp at that time ; water was hauled daily by mule team to the camp.

In the Westliche Post, he saw an ad for a mule hostler at Benton Barracks.

By the early 1990s, 20, 000 people per year made the journey into the canyon by mule, 800, 000 by hiking, 22, 000 passed through the canyon by raft, and another 700, 000 tourists fly over it in air tours ( fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter ).

In 1904, Frederick Opper drew his And Her Name Was Maud, about the kicking mule Maud, into comic strips, books and animation, but on May 23, 1926, Opper positioned And Her Name Was Maud as the topper to his Happy Hooligan, and it ran along with Happy Hooligan until both strips came to a conclusion on October 14, 1932.

Surviving on mule meat for most of the journey, they arrived on January 24, 1770.

Dejazmach Habte Maryam, governor of Welega, accepted the Italians and received Colonel A. Marone who arrived by air on 14 October and the troops of Colonel Malta who reached the town on 24 October, after having marched by foot and mule for twelve days from Addis Alem, which weakened Ras Imru Haile Selassie's attempts as Prince Regent to establish a center of resistance at Gore.

Every legion had a large baggage train which included 640 mules ( 1 mule for every 8 legionaries ) only for the soldiers ' equipment.

These included the prohibition of selling or purchasing any article or commodity from or to a slave without written permission from their master or overseer, no slave was allowed to purchase alcohol without written consent, if any slave were convicted of assault upon " any white man, negro, or mulatto " the owner would be fined $ 50, any slave caught running " any horse, gelding, or mule " through town would be subject to fifteen lashes unless the owner pays a fine of $ 1, any slave caught driving any wagon or cart or driving a horse or mule on or across the sidewalks of the town would be subject to 10 lashes, unless the owner pays a fine of 50 cents.

The Mexican state of Yucatán had approximately 1, 500 kilometers of interurban tramway network, mostly narrow gauge and either animal powered ( mule or horsecars ) or gasoline powered.

Wingate accepted the surrender of 1, 100 Italian and 5, 000 colonial troops, 2, 000 women and children and 1, 000 mule men and camp followers.

4 / 1 ( based on the Opel Maultier, or " mule ", half-track ).

Every legion had a baggage train of 500 – 550 mules, or about 1 mule for every 10 legionaries.

The wagon beds measured 16 feet long and were 6 feet deep ( 4. 9 m long, 1. 8 m deep ); constructed of solid oak, they weighed 7, 800 pounds ( 3, 500 kg ) empty ; when loaded with ore, the total weight of the mule train was 73, 200 pounds ( 33. 2 metric tons or 36. 6 short tons ).

* The 2004 film Maria Full of Grace ( advertised as " Based on 1, 000 true stories ") depicts the voyage of a young Colombian woman to New York as a balloon swallowing mule in great detail.

The road's toll was authorized for two years effective January 1, 1846 and specified toll rates at five dollars ( about a week's wages ) for each wagon and ten cents for each head of horse, mule, ass, or horned cattle.