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How would they decide whether the kids would be vegetarian or meat eaters?

Let the kids decide .... maybe the kids would end up with the best from both worlds .... omnivours!

I mean can you see a zebra crouched down low stalking a gazelle? Their clompy hooves aren't good for stealth. And when they finally pounce on their prey would they sink their hooves in?
Or a lion leisurely chewing back on a clump of shrub grass? Trying to cuddle up to the other wild zebras but just facing rejection and stigma. "We aren't playing with you, you're a predator."

So .... ummmmmm ..... because of foot size and shape, [we] are going to forbid love??? Oh. I get it. We need to protect 'em from "... rejection and stigma....." So this is about protecting 'em cuz they .... will get their feelings hurt???

And oh, how the hippos would talk!!!!

So - either the hippos are jealous (now, a hippo and zebra - that would be really, really weird). Or the hippos need to get a life. Probably a bit of both.

And you just know that during some petty domestic squabble the lion would lose control and eat his true love.

ummmmm ....... the outcome of all discord in the context of intimacy is not necessarily engulfment or death .....

I'm really trying to be open minded about this....Peter

So - just to ease your discomfort about this, rather than forbid the love, how about we suggest group dating first?!! I'm just sayin'....