> The hybrid animal was created by crossing a servile donkey with a powerful wild horse ...at which I thought "oh great, so the Mesopotamians invented the mule

> The hybrid animal was created by crossing a servile donkey with a powerful wild horse ...at which I thought "oh great, so the Mesopotamians invented the mule" - but apparently the Kunga is distinct because it's a cross between a donkey and a Syrian wild ass (according to Wikipedia "the smallest equine, and it could not be domesticated" - which probably explains why it survived until the 19th century, but then went extinct).