Hinny to the action of imprinted genes." A male hinny is properly called a "horse hinny", and a female hinny is properly called a "mare hinny", though in British English both female hinnies and female donkeys are sometimes called "jennets". Hinnies are difficult to obtain because of the differences in the number of chromosomes of the horse and the donkey. A donkey has 62 chromosomes, whereas a horse has 64. Hinnies, being hybrids of those two species, have 63 chromosomes and are sterile. The uneven number of chromosomes results in an incomplete reproductive system. According to the ADMS: "The equine hybrid
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes us the landscape that makes us who we are." Several writers, such as the Scottish novelist Christopher Rush, have written of their own efforts to retrace Stevenson's steps. Accounts include a bicycle trip 25 years after Stevenson's hike and a comic adventure on the part of two British women. A section of Richard Holmes' "Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer" chronicles the author's retracing of Stevenson's journey as well. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of