The big wave of importing Pakistani donkeys happened in 2001 and 2002, which is exactly twenty years ago.
Back then, the smallest unit these donkeys were distributed to was the township-level animal husbandry station, and the policy was still for grassroots cadres to go promote it in the countryside. The coverage rate of crossbreeding was crazy high.
So right now, trying to find a purebred native female donkey is super difficult, and if you crossbreed them, you can't activate the LP phenotype anyway, let alone get that pentose phosphate pathway product found in the hair. Are those two really unrelated?
Maybe no one actually knows the real answer, but Xu Yun personally thinks the answer is no.
Naming this new species after Xiao Li is a pretty fitting choice, both in meaning and sentiment.
But Qiu Sheng just can't wrap his head around Xu Yun's thoughts; he simply thinks the name sounds okay, and says:
