Which animal is the offspring of a male Ass and a mare?
Animal rights first major piece of animal protection legislation. It was given royal assent on June 22 that year as "An Act to prevent the cruel and improper Treatment of Cattle", and made it an offence, punishable by fines up to five pounds or two months imprisonment, to "beat, abuse, or ill-treat any horse, mare, gelding, mule, ass, ox, cow, heifer, steer, sheep or other cattle." Legge and Brooman argue that the success of the Bill lay in the personality of "Humanity Dick", who was able to shrug off the ridicule from the House of Commons, and whose sense of humour managed
Lord Morton's mare Animals and Plants under Domestication" (1868). The concept of telegony, that the seed of a male could continue to affect the offspring of a female, whether animal or human, had been inherited from Aristotle and remained a legitimate theory until experiments in the 1890s confirmed Mendelian inheritance. Biologists now explain the phenomenon of Lord Morton's mare using dominant and recessive alleles. Lord Morton's mare Lord Morton’s mare was an equid hybrid and once an often-noticed example in the history of evolutionary theory. In 1820 George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, F.R.S., reported to the President of the Royal Society that,