Gawker mentioned that zebras' favorite food is human meat. Cite your sources, yo. (Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia does not support this assertion.)
Zebroid is the generic name for all zebra hybrids. The different hybrids are generally named using the portmanteau convention of sire's name + dam's name."Sire!" I was on the phone with Ari and made a comment about fandom portmanteau and animal AUs.
In reading aloud the section on zebra hybrids, I commented that I kept almost wanting to say "Zamboni."
Ari said, "That's the offspring of a zebra and an ice-skater."
I was like, "I did read a Johnny Weir mermaid AU..."
I couldn't remember the name of the ~French guy in the fic, and search terms like "Johnny Weir figure skating mermaid AU" took me a remarkably long time to achieve success.
Finally successful Google hit was: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/mermaids/bookmarks
That's a bookmark list, so using the Merperson AU tag gets some additional fics (including Inception -- which I have read a number of fics for, because
(I also clicked on the Fake News RPF tag because I wasn't sure I was correctly parsing it. Returning to the wrong tab means I had a moment of thinking there was a Stephen Colbert & Chuck Norris mermaid AU. Rule 34?)