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Top 10 Hybrid Animals
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Our editors have created a list about the top 10 hybrid animals. Hybrid animals are cross-breds between animals of similar genetics. They mostly exist in captivity and are the result of human intervention. |
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10. Liger/Tigon
Though they are fascinating animals, they get the last of the list because they are the most popular known among the hybrids. Ligers are crossbreeds between a male lion while Tigons are crossbreds between a male tiger and a female lion. Ligers are the world’s largest cats. Tigons on the other hand, are prone towards dwarfism and are usually smaller than either of their parents. Male Ligers/Tigons are sterile while the females are often fertile. Below shows a liger and its trainer Dr. Bhagavan Antle at a Renaissance Festival in Massachusetts, USA, October 2005.
Futher Read: Truth Or Fiction
9. Wolf Dog
Dogs and wolves tend to crossbreed rather freely. The wolf is a shy animal depending on nuances in body language, facial expression and on hunting skills to survive. Their jaws are much stronger than those of a dog and are often used to exert dominance. For a dog wolf hybrid, it is not known when it will display a wolf behaviour or dog behaviour or something in between. Obedience training is a must in order to tame the animal.
Further Read: Dog’s Owner Guide
8. Iron Age Pig
Domestic Tamworth pigs are crossbred with wild boar to create ‘Iron Age Pigs’. The hybrids are tamer than wild boar but less tractable than domestic swine and generally become specialist pork sausages. Most of them are bred for the specialist meat trade.
Further Read: Wikipedia
7. Zebroid
A zorse is the result of crossbreeding a horse and a zebra. A zonkey is the result of crossbreeding a donkey with a zebra. The Zony is the result of crossbreeding a pony to a zebra. All these three are called zebroids - defined as a cross between a zebra and any other equid. Zebroids are preferred over zebra for practical uses such as riding because of its body shape. However it is more inclined to be temperamental and can prove to be difficult to handle.
Further Read: Green Apple, Wikipedia
6. Cama
A Cama is a hybrid between a camel and a llama. They are born via artificial insemination due to the huge difference in sizes of the animals which disallow natural breeding. A Cama usually has the short ears and long tails of a camel but the cloven hooves of a llama. Also most noticeably is the absence of the hump.
Further Read: Taylor Llamas, Wikipedia
5. Grolar, Pizzly
A grolar/pizzly hybrid is the product of a grizzly bear and a polar bear. Although the two bears are genetically similar, they tend to avoid each other in the wild. During 16 April 2006, a hybrid bear was shot dead by Jim Martell,a hunter from the United States, in Canada. It was the first time a hybrid was found in the wild where previous records of grolars or pizzlies have only been found in zoos.
Further Read: BBC News, Wikipedia
4. Leopon
A Leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard and a female lion. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the bodies carries similarities to leopards. The most successful breeding programme was at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan. Leopons are larger than leopards and likes to climb and enjoy water.
Further Read: Wikipedia
3. Hybrid Pheasant
The Golden Phesant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady Amherst’s Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors from its parents.
Further Read: Messy Beasts
2. Wolphin
A wolphin is a rare hybrid formed from a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. There are currently only two in captivity at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. A wolphin’s size, colour and shape are intermediate between the parent species. The first captive wolphin was Kekaimalu, which shows mixed heritage even in its teeth: bottlenose dolphins have 88, false killer whales have 44 and Kekaimalu has 66!
Further Read: Wikipedia
1. Ti-Liger, Ti-Tigon, Li-Tigon, Li-Liger
The top spot goes to ti-ligers/ti-tigon/li-tigons/li-ligers because it is a hybrid among the hybrids. It is a cross breed between a male tiger and a female liger/tigon or a male lion with a female tigon/liger. Do note that female ligers or tigons are fertile. They are extremely rare and are in mostly private ownership within a behavioural studies programme. In the case of ti-ligers, they have unusual striping where it breaks up and display a blotchy appearance. Since they are 3/4 tiger, their characteristics inhibit more of those of a tiger than a lion.
Further Read: Lair Web
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June 19th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Ok, the dog and the wolf are of the same species, so that’s strictly speaking not a hybrid, and it’s not very uncommon for them to breed at all.
Happens all the time in northern scandinavia, sweden, where I live.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Of course, the actual top animal isn’t listed; the mule. It is the most common hybrid, most useful hybrid on the planet, used for agriculture all over the world (even still in the US). Next to it is the henny (horse/jenny), again, a very common hybrid and still in common use for agriculture all over the world. Why were these two very common and useful animals excluded from your list? Seems like the list was made up by people who know very little about animals…
June 19th, 2006 at 11:20 am
mankind does not deserve to be caretaker of this planet.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Michael Bergkvist is wrong. Dogs and wolfs are not the same species. Per MS Encarta, there are two species of wolf, “gray, or timber, wolf is classified as Canis lupus. The red wolf is classified as Canis rufus.” Whereas a dog is classified as a Canis domesticus. Clearly, not the same species but the same family, Canidea.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Dude said:
“I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
Where do you think George Bush 2 came from?
June 19th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Jason is wrong and woefully out of date. Encarta is merely an encyclopedia, which is not a reliable source of up-to-date scientific knowledge. The various “species” of wolf are now all classified as subspecies of Canis lupus, and the domestic dog is now Canis lupus familiaris, the older classification has been deprecated. This reclassification was done in 1993 by the American Society of Mammologists and has been accepted, worldwide, by other mammalian taxonomists. Encarta is woefully out of date. Do not rely upon encyclopedias as sources of currently-valid scientific knowledge.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Re breeding humans and great apes: That was one of the things Hitler’s scientists attempted. No record of any successes have surfaced.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Michael Bergkvist is right. The domestic dog is Canis lupus familiaris, a sub-species of the grey wolf, Canis lupus.
Check Wikipedia or a 3rd grader’s biology book instead of Encarta.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Canis_lupus_familiaris.html
http://www.inetdesign.com/wolfdunn/wolfdogfaq/hybrids.html
June 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Saying Encarta isn’t accurate and then telling him to check Wikipedia?
Kettle : “Hi Pot, how are you today?”
Pot : “I can’t talk to you, you’re black!”
June 19th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Dave:
“Bergkvist is right. The domestic dog is Canis lupus familiaris, a sub-species of the grey wolf, Canis lupus. ”
I believe it’s a mistake to present the domestic dog as a subspecies of the gray wolf. In the Society’s reorganization of Canis, it also reclassified the wolf as two subspecies–C. l. nubilus, (timber wolf) and C. l. occidentalis (Mackenzie or Tundra wolf)–neither of which have greater standing than the domestic dog, C. l. familiaris. Yet , in common usage, it’s up to the individual as to how he cares to regard the entire species: one of wolves, the domestic dog being a form of wolf; or as one consisting of wolves and domestic dogs, much as we regard Ursus arctos as consisting of the Kodiak, grizzly, and brown bear.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Jason got owned.
June 19th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
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June 19th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
And I thought I was the greatest half breed….er … hybrid of all!
*ATOMIC WAIT out NOW!*
http://www.myspace.com/elrockwell
June 19th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I wonder if the scientists who make up those hybrids have kids.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Yeah Dusan, it’s sad.
Nevertheless, What a great list you got there Katana, i’m fascinated by your success and traffic O_o
A.H
June 19th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Thanks A.H.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
nice photoshop work
June 19th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
The images labelled grolar, pizzly on your page are actually polar-European brown bear, although the general type is representative of what a polar-grizzly would look like (since grizzlies are a type of brown bear). Photographer attribution (Sarah Hartwell) is required when using those images.
The image of the hybrid pheasant should also be attributed please. It is copyright Sarah Hartwell.
June 19th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
I have added the copyright Sarah, Thanks for letting us use the pictures. Your site http://www.messybeast.com has helped a lot in this article
June 19th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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June 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
They suspect a chimp, and even apes and humans are too genetically different to create a hybrid. There was one case where a scientist supposedly succeeded, but the hybrid died shortly after birth. But even this story has no proof this acctually happened. Check out “Humanzee”. They thought it was a cross breed, but dna proved otherwise. They found it was just a strange mutation that happened in the wild.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
“The liger is like my favorite animal. It’s strength is it’s magic”
June 19th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
I’m currently trying to create a cat-elephant hybrid - or Catephant as I intend to call it. I’m designing it to be able to do massive poos in my neighbour’s garden!
June 19th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I agree with Nico. When this happens in nature the result is almost always sterilization. It is natures way of controlling this thing. Enter man…and there are no limits.
I do know someone who has a coyote/dog mix. The animal was born in the wild but was domesticated.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Wolves and dogs are the same species, they are not a hybrid. You cannot differentiate them in any way, not even via a DNA test. However, through thousands of years of breeding humans have changed dog behavior significantly. You can keep a dog as a pet because they never “grow up”. Wolves do and that is what makes them a dangerous animal to keep.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
I’m a big fan of the owlbear. http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=322
Sorry, just wanted to liven it up a little. All very interesting animals. I am surprised there are mostly mammals here, with only one bird.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
How about the naturally occurring tiger-musky, half muskellunge and half northern pike?
Any fishermen out there to verify this?
June 20th, 2006 at 12:14 am
These animals are awesome. I did see one time an attempt to breed a cat with a rabbit. It was the most saddest thing I’d ever seen. The result was a cat with rabbit -like feet that couldn’t hop. So Sad
June 20th, 2006 at 12:23 am
This debate over the dog and wolf is silly. You can’t rely on taxonomists to determine genetic questions. Some taxonomists would say that a “species” includes any animals that can mate together, which would mean all of these examples are the same species. But others rely on looks or behavior.
Genetically, speciation takes place when two populations of a species are isolated and evolve separately. They may retain the ability to mate for a long time or lose that ability quickly — just a quirk of evolution. So llamas and camels, which have been separated for tens of millions of years, can mate, but other animals that are much closer cannot.
Dogs separated from wolves about 30,000 years ago. They are very different: dogs go into heat twice a year, wolves once; dogs exhibit “neotony” — traits that make them more docile — wolves obviously do not. Domestic pigs separated from wild boars more recently, so if dogs and wolves are the same species, then so are pigs and boars. Wolves can mate with dogs, but they can also mate with coyotes. Would anyone say wolves and coyotes are the same species?
In truth, “species” is a gradient, not a yes/no question. Wolves/dogs and humans/chimpanzees are at one end of the gradient; humans/trees or humans/bacteria at the other. It really is more semantics.
If this is supposed to be a list of fascinating or exotic hybrids, I don’t find wolves/dogs very exotic. But wolf-dog breedings were probably less common than we imagine. A malamute, for example, is genetically no closer to a wolf than a toy poodle. Sorry for the long comment.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:24 am
To answer Dude, yes there appears to have been a hybrid, he is known as Oliver the Humanzee !!!!
http://www.thelookmachine.com/weblog/2005/05/oliver-humanzee.html
June 20th, 2006 at 1:06 am
I don’t know about anyone else, but the Liger is pretty much my favorite animal — Napoleon Dynamite
June 20th, 2006 at 2:00 am
I dunno, a miniature tiger “like” breed sounds pretty cool too. Guard cat.
And thanks Randal for your comments. I’m not a scientist, but you made a lot of sense to me.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:34 am
To answer Dude, yes there appears to have been a hybrid, he is known as Oliver the Humanzee !!!!
——-x——-
There is no known evidence of a human/chimp hybrid. From that website it says: “Oliver is all chimp. 100%” Just kind of an ugly mutated one I guess.”
June 20th, 2006 at 3:43 am
Quote by Dat: “Wolves and dogs are the same species, they are not a hybrid. You cannot differentiate them in any way, not even via a DNA test.”
Not true.
Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D. in his. “Molecular evolution of the dog family†says
“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence.”
(http://www.fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.htm)
June 20th, 2006 at 3:44 am
These animals are awesome. I did see one time an attempt to breed a cat with a rabbit. It was the most saddest thing I’d ever seen. The result was a cat with rabbit -like feet that couldn’t hop. So Sad
That isn’t true. It was a mutated manx that people tried to pass off as a cabbit. Cabbits are highly admired in the Japanese Animation circuit cuz they’re so darned cute in Tenchi Muyo, but that whole story about trying to mate a rabbit and a cat is a hoax.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Randal: “Some taxonomists would say that a “species” includes any animals that can mate together, which would mean all of these examples are the same species. But others rely on looks or behavior.” When you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t make things up. No taxonomist today will tell you that “a ’species’ includes any animal that can mate together.” Worse yet, no taxonomist relies only (your implication) on “looks” or “behavior.”
June 20th, 2006 at 4:05 am
When are they going to make gryphons?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:06 am
I can’t believe no one has mentioned manbearpig! It’s droppings look like a bears…but more manpigish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig
June 20th, 2006 at 4:11 am
No mules…grrr…I agree, inexcuseable. The fact that “domesticated” pigs, when released into the wild, tend to revert in physical attributes and behavior to be completely indiscernable from “wild” pigs in a few short generations, is sort of overlooked. Dog/wolf crossbreeds (not hybrids) are common; I’ve even seen fox/dog crossbreeds. And yes, they do make lousy pets; takes several generations to breed out “wild” traits, which believe me is a shame for those of us who dream of one day owning a house lion (although can you imagine feeding the damn thing?). Fish hybrids are probably more common than people realize; physically, it’s a lot more likely to happen in an animal which, essentially, does all its breeding externally. But to defend taxonomy: the definition of species is not “any animals that can mate together;” but suggests that animals that can consistently produce viable (i.e. fertile) offspring are within the same species. Big difference. A sidenote to this is that only females ligers/tigons are fertile, which suggests a much more recent divergence than, say, humans and chimps.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:34 am
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Al Gore’s fearsome ManBearPig.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:40 am
would everyone just quit being a whiny bitch and just look at the pictures? i hate how every blog/article that allows commenting always results in people who are hell bent on being right.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:26 am
[...] Top 10 Hybrid Animals. A list of cross-breeding animals like the Liger (half Lion, half Tiger) or Cama (half camel, half llama). Makes you wonder what else you could cross-breed. Is there a limit to how genetically similar you have to be? Also some of the comments are kinda funny… [...]
June 20th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Ummm Oliver the humanzee was a chimpanzee. nothing more…. Check the DNA they did on him.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Ages ago, I was taught that the two animals were considered the same species if “if they can mate and the offspring is fertile.” So, not just mate — the product must be able to continue a line. The li-tigons, etc. belie this old rule. I’m just clarifying the outdated rule, not trying to assert it still applies.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Man the fish just got shafted in this article. You’d better not go swimming anytime soon …
There are bunch of manmade fish hybrids, and I suppose they are less interesting to people because it’s so easy to make them, just mix eggs and sperm in a bucket and you’re done. The Tiger Muskellunge, Tiger trout, Wiper, Saugeye, Splake Trout, and Cuttbow are examples.
Many of the coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes became extinct (theoretically) because their numbers became so low they were forced to breed with other coregonids, and hybridized with them until the larger gene pool just swallowed up all the genetic material for the extinct fish. I believe the process is called introgression, and it is a threat to many rare species.
Cool article. Somebody mentioned the neoteny of dogs as being “traits that make them more docile”. Neoteny refers to an animal which reaches adulthood (sexual viability) while retaining sub-adult characteristics. It has nothing to do with docility, although this is how neoteny is expressed in dogs. It’s a common evolutionary mechanism; the classic example is the Axolotl of Mexico, a salamander that remains an aquatic larva throughout it’s life, and never transforms into a terrestrial adult. It is controlled by the hormone thyroxin, and if given a Thyroxin injection. the axolotl will tranform into a bizarre adult salamander that does not exist in nature.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:48 am
I owned a stub-tailed cat that had bred back to its father and produced 3 stub-tailed kittens. One of those kittens didn’t even have a tail and her back curved down. She couldn’t walk properly or move her hind feet independently, so she hopped - literally.
She was a happy little kitten and got around quite well, so I kept her (she was also the tamest - these were wild cats I was feeding and taming). Unfortunately, she had another problem common to a tailless cat - a prolapse of the rectum and I had to put her down. But if you had seen her hopping, you would have sworn she was a cross of some kind!
June 20th, 2006 at 9:25 am
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June 20th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Interesting. But does not look true in some cases.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
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June 20th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
O M G. Who Cares?
June 21st, 2006 at 12:29 am
i think that there should be a cross between a humpback and a grey whale. They can call it a grump whale or a grey hump whale, or h’ray whale/horay whale….totally sweeeeeet!
June 21st, 2006 at 3:51 am
Responding to dude who said
June 19, 2006 @ 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.
Yes, Dude, His name is George W. Bush, AKA Chimpus Maximus
June 21st, 2006 at 5:18 am
This is an apparent wild bird hybrid.
http://www.uplandjournal.com/html/features/hybridgrouse.html
June 21st, 2006 at 6:24 am
The zony is just too damn cute. The leopon gives reason to stick to your own kind. I think the cross-breeding would have been better left to Photoshop for that one.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:26 am
As a recent lab hybridization of two separate butterflie species (resulting in something very similar to a known, third butterfly species) shows, hybridization may be more common in the wild than scientists previously thought.
Hybridization can become important when a species is severely endangered. If there are no examples of one particular sex, the animal can be mated with near relatives. With extensive breeding, it may be possible to restore the species, or at least something nearly indistinguishable.
Yes, it would be better to not have to do this, but one does what one can.
For the record, a human ancestor after we split from the chimp ancestor did later breed for a time. Recent genetic tests have shown this hybridization occurred in our own deep ancestry.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
[...] Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nooo…it’s a ZONKEY !! Uit de comments opgevist: Top 10 Hybrid Animals. Het meest bizarre, qua naamgeving toch, zijn de zebroids. Ze zijn het resultaat van een geile zebra en een paard,ezel of pony. Respectievelijk zorse, zonky en zony
Of in het nederlands: zaard, zezel en zony… De fruitpap of the day award gaat naar een ietwat ongewone kandidaat, nl de slettige zebra’s, of ookwel de zletten. [...]
June 21st, 2006 at 4:46 pm
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOLPHIN!!! A false killer whale is not a whale, its just a dolphin thats bigger than normal. And they have found a HALF HUMAN HALF GORILLA in africa, its name was snowflake, it died a while ago of skin cancer, and that might be total BS i saw it on the net but it does look kind of human, and there was another case of a gorilla with pink skin and blue eyes, its name was daisy i think. And you people who dont believe in hybrids are stubborn fags. And there have been many reports of a cabbit but they are all false, there is a breed of cat that has a furry stubby tail that looks like a rabbits. And just in case you care, ligers are so huge because the size limitation genes in lions are in the female, and in tigers in the male, so ligers have no limitation genes so they never stop growing during there lives. Tigons have 2 size limitation genes so they are extra small.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
SSPIFFY: Dude said: “I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.” Where do you think George Bush 2 came from?
You’re wrong - GB2 was a “Cunker” - a cros between a c*nt and a w*nker.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Lots of great comments on this thread, and varying degrees of “expertise.” Regarding Dylan’s claim that Snowflake was half-human, well… although humans are a species of primate, we’re even farther apart from gorillas than we are from chimps, so a hu-rilla just ain’t gonna happen. Snowflake (and Daisy) was an albino. This happens about as frequently in the wild as it does among humans; but in the wild (or in a human culture that fears albinism) the albino usually gets killed by something early on, either by its own kind for looking different or by a predator who can spot it more easily. Among the big cats, they tend to survive, due to the fact that they’re top predators and usually take care of each other (they’re not as well-camouflaged, though). Dylan’s claim that the cabbit is a fake is correct, of course. However, attaching a sexual preference to those who stubbornly refuse to believe in hybrids is simply not good science and is quite rude — might want to watch it with those cultural stereotypes.
Randal and a few others brought up interesting points about the genetic differences between domestic dogs and wolves. However, he also mentions that some species either lose or retain the ability to mate with their “cousins” after diverging. Several have mentioned the ease with which fish hybrids can occur, and some have pointed out that some hybrids are sterile while others are not. It’s possible that defining a “species” is a bit like defining “intelligence.” We like to think that we know what we’re talking about; and within certain contexts we can form a frame of reference — that is, a working definition that works in that situation. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s obvious that we’re still figuring it out. Remember when we were taught about “pachyderms” in school? It took a very long time to remove that classification. They’re taking even longer to remove “race” from science class — another classification system based on hasty first impressions that in no way reflects the underlying facts.
DNA studies are a step in the right direction, but we are still a long way from figuring out how it all works. It’s possible that different-but-similar animals that can produce offspring could be considered sub-species of each other — but we have the puzzle of the liger/tigon in which males are sterile and females are fertile. For the purposes of classification, a new term may have to be coined to cover this interesting paradox. (Before reading this, I assumed that hybrids were generally sterile; the idea of gender-specific sterility within a hybrid group had not occurred to me.)
As for the zebra/other equine hybrids, I’m very surprised. I had heard that a “nearby” zoo has an animal of this sort (the person who told me of it couldn’t remember its name). I wondered if a group of quagga (thought to be extinct) had been found. But these photos, assuming they are genuine, definitely show hybrids. What surprises me is that it could happen at all. Zebras generally won’t mate in captivity; and when they do, they miscarry. An experiment was done about 10 years ago to increase the zebra population by using a mare as a surrogate mother for a zebra embryo. Getting the embryos wasn’t too difficult; but the mare’s body refused to recognize the embryos and kept rejecting them. The theory was that their DNA was similar enough that she SHOULD be able to carry a baby zebra to term, but different enough that her immune system saw it as a foreign object. Scientists in charge of the project resorted to sealing her in a “bubble” and shutting down her immune system. She carried the zebra to term. However, based on this, I would not have thought that a zebra/other equine hybrid was possible.
(Addendum: In addition to “morning sickness,” pregnant women often get quite ill during pregnancy, usually from bugs that hardly bother them ordinarily. I think the immune system is supposed to relax a bit to prevent miscarriage. This also benefits the foetus by “feeding” it a mild dose of antibodies — sort of a “starter kit” for its own immune system. I don’t know if a surrogate human mother needs to take pills for this or not; but the mare probably had no clue about what was happening, and neither did her body. Given this info, on further thought it seems likely that a naturally-occurring pregnancy from a union between a zebra and another equine might give the mother’s body a chance to go into “pregnancy mode” and carry the zebroid baby to term. Since other equines can deal with captivity better than zebras, the offspring might do just fine.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Nicholas Dollak, u just got the award of longest comment on this blog
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 am
this is weird
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:10 am
DanDan….were you successful with your catephant? I would like to have one also to take care of my own neighbour.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:37 am
Please don’t try any of the following:
Kittiger - cat and tiger via artificial insemination
Hummingbee
Turtlecockroach
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:07 am
oh, people. The Jack-a-lope!
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
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June 22nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
There have been no proven cases of human-chimp hybride, however this makes you wonder…
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa022800a.htm
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:21 pm
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June 22nd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
mule, where art thou?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 pm
I think a question that we’re all ignoring is this: who would win in a fight between a liger and a polar bear?
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:07 pm
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
These animals are soo cool! I want one for christmas
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:42 am
Napoleon Dynomite was right, Ligers do exist! So do Zebroids and Camas…
Chalk one up for “Napoleon Dynomite”, “Ligers“are real:
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 am
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
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June 23rd, 2006 at 1:36 am
Human x Monkey = Liam gallagher of Oasis!
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:19 am
mtDNA is mitochondrial DNA & is distinct from nuclear DNA. mtDNA codes only for the proteins of the mitochondrion, the cell organelle responsible for oxidative phosphorylation, & plays no role in heredity other than this. mtDNA is derived only from the ovum & is used in forensic DNA fingerprinting.
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 am
“I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
of course it has. he’s in the whitehouse.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:17 am
get down with hybrids yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:20 am
Has anyone ever heard of a hybrid from 2 different generas? Ive pointed out theres no such thing as a Wolphin. IF you have please post it….
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I’M ASHAMED OF BEING HUMAN.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Dr. Wallkin,
It’s not completely true that mtDNA is derived strictly from the ovum. Sperm contain some mitochondria, and its mitochondria are not always discarded. Given the overwhelming numbers of mitochondria in the egg vs. the sperm, and the rare nature of the survival of the sperm mitochondria, this is usually inconsequential.
Defects in oovum mtDNA mild enough to permit survival of the embryo yet strong enough to affect mitochondrial population diynamics could cause this to be a significant effect under some unusual conditions.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Are you all American…?
June 24th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Small Onion,
I’m not. I made 6th man on my cross-country team in college, but I was nowhere near All-American.
We don’t ever want to discuss my single attempt at the pole vault, nor the intramural basketball team I coached and played on….
June 24th, 2006 at 3:45 am
Actually, all dolphins are whales. This includes pseudorcas (false killer whales), orcas and bottle nose dolphins.
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOLPHIN!!! A false killer whale is not a whale, its just a dolphin thats bigger than normal”
June 24th, 2006 at 5:18 am
whats that??
a liger.
whats a liger??
its prettymuch my favorite animal
its a mix between a tiger and lion
June 24th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Thanks for the great info on Ligers! Here is a site with some cool baby liger pics: http://www.liger.org
TT
June 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
ok yes absolutely
June 25th, 2006 at 4:03 am
[...] so i saw this article on the top 10 hybrid animals and found it quite interesting. Its not the usual funny stuff on here but bleh, fuck all around on the internet these days
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June 25th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I agree with Mei
I can’t believe you people find this stuff “cool” and “awesome”, arguing if wolf and dog are same species.. Lion head and tiger stripes?? Is it worth of doing it?? Only in America!! If i was American, I’d be double-ashamed. Only Bush and his politics can be more stupid like this kinda experimenting. Yeah letz rule the world and go fuck with chimpanzes, COOOL! Or better letz do it with all animal species and maybe we’ll find out where are we comming from. Some would love to have these “products” at home like pets?!?! WTF? Why?? Have tiger. Have lion!! Aren’t they beautiful and stunning enough already?? I think at the moment, this kind of engeneering is ridiciolus - however when someone we’ll start messing up with human genom, we can all start to pray. We can only ask ourselves, what’s going on in some sh*** laboratories with a bunch of crazy scientist playing role of God. Oh right, it’s for better world, growing human arms on rabbits or ears on mices …Sure. For how long and for who?? Same story is how the pharm companies help resolving AIDS problem in africa. I won’t even start with USA and their war on terror. No, WTC didn’t fall becouse plain crashed into it, there are MANY powerfull evidences that there were multiple bombs exploding, dear god … Someone was buying put options on Boing just days before and got wealthy! Other had to hide some ugly “evidences”. Then someone took all camera shots around the pentagon just before 747 hit it?? Right. It just fits in hole. Someone had scissors in hand. Others “just” lost their famillies, loved ones. And NO, Bush isn’t searcing for weapons of mass destruction. DING?! Try listen to some retired afgan “veterans” (at age 21) who had problems with killing innocent fammilies, women, babies.. STupid stupid stupid! Thank god I’m living in a paradise country some could just dream about..
Does really noone (except few here) doesn’t see the point?? Where are we running??
At the end of all, we’ll get what we deserve. For sure.
Spelling isn’t the best, so what. English isn’t my first, neither second, not even third spoken language. I don’t give a sh**. With comments like this and blindness i see, I can only p…
June 26th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Just read all these posts; and I was just about to say all that KJ has.
Yay for the similar words ‘mankind does not deserve to be caretaker of this planet.’ & ‘I’M ASHAMED OF BEING HUMAN.’
My sentiments exactly.
As for the ‘natural’ cross-breeding info, what nature can and can’t do and what we’ve done to it so far, has been great; you learn something new everyday.
(BTW Small Onion, Australia here)
June 26th, 2006 at 10:19 am
KJ, get over yourself. I don’t hear anything about the hybridization of flowers in your rant, but I suppose that you don’t think that plants that are hybridized are “shameful.” By the way there’s an old saying: you have two ears and one mouth, listen twice as much as you talk.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Many moons ago I dreamed of some hybrid animals. I would like to see some of them made. Can you make them for me?
http://www.nible.com/thezoo/thezoo.htm
Particularly TurkeyPig.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:00 am
Does this explain the Bush twins?
June 27th, 2006 at 7:59 am
Cobalt:
I find plants same as animals. We are all made of dust. Appereance of flower is kinda different on this planet, don’t you think? So the issue is different. Right? I bet(hope) you can see it.. Don’t go on attacking me if you have conflicts with my statements and better have some good arguments.
Btw I am realy good listener and also have an old saying: Don’t judge book by it’s cover. And another one: Don’t go playing god. Better play with your kids. Now YOU try find one for this post. Not for me.
I even don’t know what you stand for..
killQUOTE: Nothing more needs to be explained (as long as I am concerned) in a metter of “Bush” twins. I’m only surprised by blindness of MANY on that - and this perticular case.
Peace.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Bush is a mix between God and man
June 27th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
People are f*ck*d up! Why can’t we just leave animals alone. Why are we always trying to play God? And I love how this rare breed of bear was killed by a hunter. So typical Humans Suck!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:51 am
I can’t believe no one has mentioned crossing a Bulldog and a Shih-tzu to get a Bull-shit! (Yes, I freakin’ know that both the Bulldog and the Shih-tzu are canis lupis familarius, and so not a different species and therefore not a hybrid. Thank you for noticing).
June 28th, 2006 at 2:57 am
[...] Não é só na polÃtica que aparecem animais exóticos. A manipulação da procriação para o cruzamento de espécies (hibridização) produziu alguns bichos bem esquisitos como, pasmem, o Ligre (Tigre+Leão) e o Cama (Camelo+Lhama). [...]
June 28th, 2006 at 4:28 am
I tried creating a dog and human hybrid. I dont think my do was to happy, but I enjoyed trying to make it.