Alie Ward

Okay, so they found that significant gain in gluteal muscle was recorded in both the squat and the donkey kick group, clearly not in the control group.

However, the squat group found significantly more muscle gains than the DKG or donkey kick group.

So more muscle, but also one paragraph, shockingly,

And yeah, I read a lot of this, seemed to contradict so much fitness advice I've heard that you can't spot reduce in terms of adipose tissue.

But this 2020 study asserts that both squats and donkey kicks significantly reduced adipose tissue, fat tissue on the buttocks, and quote, this may be attributed to the exercise-specific induction of fatty acid oxidation at the gluteal region, which is required to meet the energy demand of the exercise.

They say, this result corroborates with other studies involving high-intensity resistance training.

Okay, so there's information on your butts.

It's your butt.

You do whatever works for you.

You have that butt look and feel exactly as you want it.

Either way, it's a great butt.

But just know, scientists are out there unraveling all kinds of mysteries.

Given your cell biology background too, do you ever see news reports that come in trying to crisper a mule that can breed?

Any major updates on this, you ask, other than all the cloning they did on racing mules a few decades ago?

Well, there was a 2025 paper in the journal Animals, and it was titled Current and Emerging Advanced Techniques for Breeding Donkeys and Mules.

And it kind of reported with a bit of a sigh that despite significant progress in the last decade, standardization of protocols for gammy conservation and embryo transfer are still relevant.

required in long ear equids, meaning I don't think anyone's out there doing CRISPR on mules.

I'll let you know though.

Also, yeah, we got mules and we got ligers.

And a liger is a tiger-lion hybrid, but the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger, also called a tigress, which seems unnecessary.