Wild mules exist as far as I know, so it's likely that mares and asses could be attracted to each other. So if inter-species attraction between close relatives is a thing, why does it seem to be so rare among zoophiles, as far as I know?
While I see the obvious evolutionary reasons why people would have developed a sharp distinction between members of their own and other related species and weakened attraction to similar species, I don't see why human attraction to bonobos and chimpanzees does not seem to remain even as a vestigial trait among humans. Does attraction towards them really make less evolutionary sense than attraction towards other animals? My only guess is that we apparently find less people attracted to these animals simply because they are all wild.
(This is based on some statistics I recall, but I don't remember the source.)
Why no more humans attracted to chimpanzees and bonobos?
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Re: Why no more humans attracted to chimpanzees and bonobos?
To be honest, I think (without claiming to know) it's because most zoophiles are more turned on by the idea of sex with non-human animals (the novelty, the taboo, the convenience, ) than they are actually physically attracted to them.
Lions and tigers (both panthers) will sometimes mate in captivity but I think their first choice would be someone of their own species and they settle when none are available, I could be wrong (they don't share a natural habitat so it's in captivity that they would typically interact). Lion-tiger unions can at least produce fertile female offspring. Mules are typically infertile with some rare exceptions (I don't know if there are exceptional male ligers/tigons who can father offspring).
Apparently, people of (modern) non-sub-saharan African descent typically inherit around 1-4% of their dna from Neanderthals, I don't know if they were a separate species from us or just a sub-species. Many modern humans also have Denisovan ancestry (particularly Melanesians, Aboriginal Australians and people from some parts of Asia, apparently). On the flip side, even though different species have different 'mechanisms' for avoiding inbreeding (not due to their conscious individual mating preference but selected behaviors that deterred that, like with lions kicking male cubs out of the pride when they become sexually mature), non-human animals generally don't avoid mating with opposite-sex siblings or parents. When inter-species mating occurs with other animals, it seems to always be within the genus (although dogs will sometimes use human legs as masturbatory aids and I vaguely remember a video of a dolphin playfully humping a human). I don't think a non-human animal who seems to _prefer_ individuals outside of their own species has ever been observed.
Lions and tigers (both panthers) will sometimes mate in captivity but I think their first choice would be someone of their own species and they settle when none are available, I could be wrong (they don't share a natural habitat so it's in captivity that they would typically interact). Lion-tiger unions can at least produce fertile female offspring. Mules are typically infertile with some rare exceptions (I don't know if there are exceptional male ligers/tigons who can father offspring).
Apparently, people of (modern) non-sub-saharan African descent typically inherit around 1-4% of their dna from Neanderthals, I don't know if they were a separate species from us or just a sub-species. Many modern humans also have Denisovan ancestry (particularly Melanesians, Aboriginal Australians and people from some parts of Asia, apparently). On the flip side, even though different species have different 'mechanisms' for avoiding inbreeding (not due to their conscious individual mating preference but selected behaviors that deterred that, like with lions kicking male cubs out of the pride when they become sexually mature), non-human animals generally don't avoid mating with opposite-sex siblings or parents. When inter-species mating occurs with other animals, it seems to always be within the genus (although dogs will sometimes use human legs as masturbatory aids and I vaguely remember a video of a dolphin playfully humping a human). I don't think a non-human animal who seems to _prefer_ individuals outside of their own species has ever been observed.