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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 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
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June 29th, 2006 at 4:15 am
“Bush is a mix between God and man”
QFT
-its retarded to argue over what species are. there have been many standards over the years, all of them fuzzy, and its still that way. a wolf is not a (domestic) dog, nor vice versa: works for me.
-i don’t get what the mtdna stuff people were commenting on was about. mtdna can be used to estimate how long ago species diverged. not a lot more needs to be said.
-to KJ: hybrid animals are made around the world. ligers were made since pre-wwII. the liger in those pictures was actually accidentally made. you’re pretty much just showing that your country is just the jealous piece of crap we all know it is. also, what is WRONG with making a liger? Should the accidently made ones be put down because “god” didn’t make it? I guess you don’t much like dogs then, or cats, you wouldn’t own one i mean. Wouldn’t drink milk or eat beef. Or ride horses. or eat pork. no fur coats. These are all animals that we’ve messed with. we do it all the time. you think getting a shih-tzu from a wolf is fine but make a liger and we’re all going to hell. Grade A moran.
I like the grolar the best btw.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Great pictures - the ti-tigon looks really strange
June 29th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
ass
June 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Oh dear… it seems the blog has found a conspiracy theorist! KJ, you forgot to mention that the KGB were behind the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, the Polish Mafia orchestrated the sinking of the Titanic and the Bush Administration caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
A little open-mindedness goes a long way; Would you, for instance, be so offended by the use of mules as beasts of burden? Without these particular hybrids, many farmers through history would’ve starved. How about hybridising different breeds of corn, rice and wheat to make hardier crops so as to withstand harsher climates? Does bouncegirl find this offensive? Also, with consideration given to the argument of where a breed ends and a species begins, could one define people of different ethnic origins as different species? If so, does the idea of marriage and copulation between races make you “Ashamed to be human” Mei?
People breeding such hybrids are generally not trying to play God, but simply trying to further understand the genetic curiosities of life given to us in the world He made for us.
By the way, the “chimp and human hybrid in the Whitehouse” and Napoleon Dynamite jokes are getting old.
Hope I haven’t actually offended anyone, and I recon the liger would beat a polar bear in a fight hands down, although, it probably depends on whose home climate they were in during that fight. I don’t know how a liger would stand up to the weather in the arctic circle.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:50 am
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June 30th, 2006 at 3:10 am
what the hell is going on on this planet. nature has her or its ways of handling things. even in crossbreeding. why must we interfere in the stuff we normal don’t care. oh sure it’s a scientific breakthrough. hey i got an idea why not crossbreed a human and a oh well so many species. we can choose. oh yeah almost forgot. humans have nothin else in mind but to tinker with stuff until they break (i’m in it too, don’t worry) why not try to make the world a better place. not for you, not for me: but for the Whole planet: remember TERRA.
until then…
July 4th, 2006 at 8:41 am
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July 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am
KJ:
We people find it ‘cool’ and ‘awesome’ to argue because it’s contructive. Evolution depends on communication. Often the animals with the highest rate of survival have the best communication skills (eg humans). I think you even answered your own sarcasm, “Or better letz do it with all animal species and maybe we’ll find out where are we comming from.” Well, that’s pretty much what’s trying to be done, to understand genetics and stuff better. Everyone has different opinions, and some people think that particular hybrids are more beautiful and stunning than non-hybrids. Who are you to dictate personal preference? Don’t bring religion into this debate, you have absolutely no proof that god exists whatsoever. You might retaliate with monuments, buildings, bibles etc. All of these are man-made, so get over it.
I bet you’d change your mind if you had a health problem, like a heart disease. I bet you wouldn’t mind having a heart transplant from a pig to survive then.
If you don’t want to cure AIDS, then get the f*ck out of the way for someone who does.
Why are you bringing 9/11 into this debate? Why? It has NOTHING to do with the topic.
I like how you don’t mention which country you live in, because there’s very few countries that can be described as ‘paradise’. Every country has murderers, rapists, pedophiles, con artists, drug dealers etc. Adn what’s worse is that every country has some ridiculous religious zealots like you that use some imaginary friend as a mental security blanket named “god” to justify everything they do.
July 6th, 2006 at 4:04 am
“dude said
June 19, 2006 @ 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~chloraform/bush-chimp.jpg[/img]
http://home.comcast.net/~chloraform/bush-chimp.jpg
Only one known of.
July 6th, 2006 at 6:24 am
This is what you get when inbreds rule the Earth!
If it happens naturally then let it happen don’t f*ck with it!
I don’t care if you belive in a GOD or not! look at all the shit we’ve caused pollution that’s killing us and the Earth just because it was it was seen as making things better and easier for us humans! Look at all the new diseases were making instead of curing the ol’ ones! Do we really need to be f*ckin around with poor defenless animals that have no choice or say in the matter????
July 6th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Everyday I see somthing else that makes me ashamed to be human. But at least I have my good concience, knowing that I have no part in this.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Bubbles:
Cheer up, emo kid.
July 7th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I believe everyone is forgetting the most important hybrid of all….the day walker (could also be known as humpire or vaman, half vampire half human).
July 8th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
otro vivo reflejo de la estupides humana…
This Suck
July 9th, 2006 at 7:47 am
KJ: Get over yourself. You are not the world’s moral police so back off Nature and humans have both been modifying living things pretty much forever.
Wolves and dogs are the same species, the best estimate for humans domesticating dogs is between 17,000 and 14,000 years ago which is no where near long enough for them to be different species. The math is pretty straight forward that’s roughly between 8,500 and 2,800 generations of domestic dogs (depending on what you consider a generation I went with 2 years for the minimum and 5 for the maximum), in evolutionary terms that’s a very short period of time.
Nicholas Dollak: You’re assumption about other equids not being able to carry zebra hybrids to term has a big flaw in it. When the attempt was made to use a horse as a surrogate it was a 100% zebra, genetically far too different for the horse’s body to accept (by the way sometimes women who are surrogate mothers for infertile couples have the same problem and that is within our own species). Now if a horse/pony/donkey is carrying a hybrid between themselves and a zebra, half the dna is going to be the mothers, that would significantly decrease the likelyhood that the mother’s body would reject the fetus.
About female ligers and tigons being fertile, that actually isn’t too surprising in the world of hybrids. Even a small handful of female mules have been fertile (it’s very rare but it happens). Since females get their genes for sexual reproductions from both parents and males only from one parent, that may explain why hybrid males are not fertile but females sometimes are. The male genes from the father are incompatible with the genes inherited from the mother, but for the female having a copy from each parent the genes mesh better. This is also why there are many genetic problems that show up only in males but not females, females have doubles of specifically female genes so if one is defective the other is typically dominant but with males there is no second copy of the gene to pick up the slack
July 10th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Hmm, this is interesting stuff indeed.
P.S. - Dear lord you’re a moron KJ.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:41 am
If some of you are ashamed about being human, why not do something about it. You could always find a tall building and not be a human anymore. Or maybe you’d be a human/sidewalk hybrid….a humalk, if you will.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:14 am
Cool!
July 13th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
fantastic!! can u add something regarding human chimp breeding??
July 17th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
You’re all crackers!! KJ is passionate about his/her point….just not particularly good at articulating it. Cobalt and Kevin…you are just ignorant and rude, but frankly I wouldn’t expect anything more. You shouldn’t shout someone down just because they have differing views to you. Unfortunately, it seems a common trait of you and your apparent countrymen, so I guess you can’t really be condemned for your blinkered, bigoted, uneducated view of life.
July 17th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
You’re all crackers!! KJ is passionate about his/her point….just not particularly good at articulating it. Cobalt and Kevin…you are just ignorant and rude, but frankly I wouldn’t expect anything more. You shouldn’t shout someone down just because they have differing views to you. Unfortunately, it seems a common trait of you and your apparent countrymen, so I guess you can’t really be condemned for your blinkered, bigoted, uneducated view of life…
July 28th, 2006 at 5:34 am
kschlenker said: Seems like the list was made up by people who know very little about animals…
Seems like the list was made up full stop!
I’ve got a faint memory from my school days, specifically biology class: I seem to remember that the gender of the offspring is wholly due to the sperm as the ova carry only female genes but the sperm can carry male or female genes. As the male gene is dominant, an ovum fertilised by a male sperm results in a male embryo. Obviously, an ovum fertilised by a female sperm results in a female embryo.
If this is the case, why does the “Leopon” (result of breeding a male leopard and a female lion) have a mane? Surely that is a male trait which would not be carried in the female lion ova?
July 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
The pigs, wolfdogs, etc are all the same species. Nothing amazing there unless you’ve never seen a dog or pig before. The cat hybrids and wolphin (and I assume zebroid and camel-llama) are different species because even though they can produce offspring, those offspring are infertile (either in 1 or both sexes). The bear hybrid brings up an interesting point in that two animals deemed separate species appear to be able to mate sucessfully. This means that grizzly and polar bears are more like different ‘races’ or ‘breeds’ of the same species. Altered by geographic isolation.
And about Oliver the Humanzee, DNA testing showed he is a chimp with a genetic condition making him rather bald. However his skin is now much darker and he appears far more chimplike (he is still alive, just looks like an old chimp). He spawned one of my favourite urban legends though, gotta love him.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Listen, it it clearly stated by all scientists that humans cannot breed with any type of primape their dna is 98% the same as humans but that two percent is what makes it impossible for us to reproduce with them (otherwise id be makin ape babies). All of the above animals are in a same family and hunmans are one advanced race that has ;Persay, no family amoung other animals, plus this site says at the bottom “Modified Theme By Beccary”…..beccary….ring a bell….. becary probably means beckham…..David Beckham made these animals then. Man am i a genius the unscrample that.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am
The guy who wrote the comment above mine (Coolfartsdufe) really
knows what he’s talking about.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:25 am
You know, I don’t believe in messing with nature. I think it’s wrong. These creatures are amazing, but NOT what God intended or they would have already been here. I think we are doing too much. All these efforts could be used where needed, not making up stuff to occupy time and destort already beautiful animals.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
YO I AGREE I LOOOVE ALL ANIMSLS HOLLA AT A GURLS PAGE
August 10th, 2006 at 1:13 am
YO a skunk and a raccon mix’d where i used 2 live that was spryin some stinky stuff every day n stealin all the shirts of the dry line any way i got a half kusky half german S so in my mind hybrids is dumb cool
why not mix a great white n a tiger sharke that be PIFF
August 16th, 2006 at 10:28 am
where is the flying pigs???????????????
August 16th, 2006 at 10:29 am
where are the jonny haans?
August 16th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
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August 24th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
To anyone that says ‘who are we to play with DNA?! it’s against God!’ i say to you:
‘Shut your preach-hole, you arrogant ass!’
How do you know what God wants? Does he tell you over coffee in the morning while scratching his backside, in his boxers? it’s pompous and presumptious of YOU or ANYONE to speak for GOD. You are not God’s personal press secretary, so get over yourself and keep the moral high ground to your personal life. Something as awesome as gene-splicing / stem cell research / DNA Hybridization could be the first step to us finally evolving out of the dark ages where we still bitch and moan, kill each over over something as petty as ‘religion’. It can lead to greater technologies that will propel us years technologically (probably to at least where we aught to be right now). An end to cancer? Childhood Diabetes and Leukemia? Aids? You don’t think God wants us to evolve and triumph over these things? You had better be pretty sure of yourself before you make such an assumption with such certainty.
If God created us in ‘his image’, would we not be best to create as he has done?
I don’t understand the reasoning of religious people anymore. Their lives must be very trite, boring, uninspired, meaningless and hopeless. It’s O.K. to kill people of other religions because it’s ‘In the name of God’… but it’s not O.K. to create?
/me takes 4 asprin.
August 28th, 2006 at 3:51 am
back to the whole argueing of the wolf dog being a hybird or not. So wolfs and dogs are technically the same species in the same family. The family canis, but then again lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars are in the same base family and basically cousins so does that really make them hybirds? And can we technically classify anything in a species of it’s anyhow in the first place due to science is just a bunch of opinions in the first place hence forthe the word “theory” in most things.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:48 am
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September 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 am
i luv this site make more hybrids. Do best 20 hybrids u
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 am
i luv ur site make mor u peeps lololol lmao
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 am
i luv u
September 5th, 2006 at 1:51 am
What happens if you breed a mule with a donkey? Do you get a monkey?
September 9th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Is it possible to breed a human with a dog or a horse?
September 16th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
The ever-popular “geep” is conspicuosly left off of this list.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:13 am
they should get hobbs
September 21st, 2006 at 9:35 pm
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September 22nd, 2006 at 8:01 am
this is intense. you people really like to argue don’t you? i’m not complaining i like reading this stuff. very entertaining. just take it easy, kay? btw carbon, you made a very good point there. g’job
September 24th, 2006 at 3:08 am
i think that zony is really cute
September 27th, 2006 at 9:17 am
I thank you for this web site! It helped me a LOT in my science project in 5th grade! You all did an awesome job!!! I love the Leopon! It is SO cute!
September 27th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
….woah…i think the lepeon looks freaky!!
September 27th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
…..and by the way…this site really helped me too! thanks!
September 28th, 2006 at 7:44 am
i thank you for this website!!it helped me a lot in my hybrid science project!!
September 28th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
first off the liger is the most famous and coommon hybrid and second the wolf and the dog are not the same that is wjy they don’t have the same name. also if they where than that creature would look like a wolf or a dog. if you do not no what you are talking about than don’t post and save us the time of reading you made up fantasies.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
nice
September 29th, 2006 at 8:18 am
i love this website!!
September 29th, 2006 at 8:19 am
cool!!
September 29th, 2006 at 8:43 am
i love the leopon!
September 30th, 2006 at 5:56 am
i think that the hybrids will make a success in my science project!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:16 am
They are at again wht whiteman playing god…its going to come back and bite you in the ass
October 10th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I’m assuming we’re all going to be taken over by some faction of Liger’s as a result of what we’ve done.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:59 am
Why doesn’t somebody tell me how much I suck for being white and American? Hey then maybe you can call ME racist. Cause you know, I live on a continent that everybody hates- therefore making me- an asshole. Yep, I totally forced those scienctists to breed those animals-oh, and I voted for Bush too- OH! And I talk in a southern accent and scratch my ass going “Hee-yuck!” and “Dang that there on strange lookin’ critters”. Wow. I didn’t mean to rant that much. Oh well. Nice learning about hybrids and people’s opinions on the morality of it as well as the biological side of it. Thanks for putting it up.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:34 am
I want that me send photos to me mesenger for meet more of it animals
To me like it type of things and thanks!!!
October 13th, 2006 at 6:47 am
who invent this? this creation is cool and is incredibe very good!
October 14th, 2006 at 1:25 am
I think this is a freak of nature that shouldnt be messed with …. look at what people are doing to our animal kingdon..and for what our own selfish entertainment….
grow up!!!
a dolphin and a killer whale.. i mean my god… how un natural you wouldnt find them mating in the wild.. for what purpose is it to experiment this way..
i sooo disagree with this
October 14th, 2006 at 5:35 am
i fucked a horse once and i made a minataur
October 16th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
this is for real man?
you see the danger that in one day due to the genetic research
it might appear dangerous species that i don’t want to talk about!
but the danger still exist!
October 30th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
R Lepeons more lion or leopard??!!
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:20 am
im elliosh. i touch ape before. is that woulb be cross breading? his willy. also, i “skimmed” (looked at fast) at reviews. retarded this is fake. pictures like mj’s nose. fake to the 10 degree. many people are gulable here, omg lol. that funny that peeps (people) will beleive the shit. you got to open your eyes like a prostitute’s legs. come on. has you all even glanced at this animals in real? if you have, me elliosh would like to know, so then i may now and cross breed some more. my favorite is pea-beginie, even if its fake, it is. omg . say gullable 3 times fast and it sounds like ballon.
omg guess u believe this site. omg. hope mankind is goin survive. cross bread happily.
elliosh
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:01 pm
wow thts a big 1 lol!
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:52 am
hi me bolbie i think animal hybrid good i like the wolf dog and ti liger
November 6th, 2006 at 3:03 am
These animals are amazing. This can provide us with great insite into genetics. To understand how the master genes are affected through the cross of the two species. I hope to see more breakthroughs on the crosses of felines.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:57 am
They should cross a bobcat with a cougar
November 9th, 2006 at 6:41 am
U know for all u whinerers…in the bible it says to keep breeding animals and we are doing that so shut up ok…plus i think there pretty and the more u make the more animals we will have
November 10th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
roflmao they look so different to normal ones don’t they…… but they’re cute
November 11th, 2006 at 2:19 am
all peeps retarded. no such things as cross breed. when i mate wich my dog, nothing came out. why would work with animal. poop out animal? i touch apes papercut willy, no child born. explain munch ccrunch.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I crossed a donkey and a monkey in my biology lab in college. I was going to name it
a “mon-key”. Although “don-key” might have been just as suitable.
November 14th, 2006 at 3:14 am
I think that ur all abit gone in the head!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:32 am
i think u should keep on making more of these funny but facinating creatures. my fav is the ZONY!!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:37 am
i just lut the heck out of that ZONY!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:42 am
I THINK U ALL ARE SO COOL BUT JUST STOP DOING THIS TO THE CREATURES OF THE WORLD. IT IS SO WRONG WHAT U DID 2 THESE POOR THINGS
PS THAT LEOPED OR WHAT LOOKS AS A FREAKALEEK!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 9:17 am
i dont get any of this, when i fuck my dog i dont get pregnant with mutan babys! how are all these animals made
November 16th, 2006 at 4:30 am
If you people who breed these these animals and love them so much relized what happens to them you wouldn’t think it was so pretty. Ligers, tigons and ti tigons and all the others, never stop growing. They get to the point were there body is so big that there heart can’t pump blood any more. The lucky one die qiuckly of a heart attack…but the unlucky suffer severe brain damage and enurizm. Not only do they have heart problems but most end up as side show freaks and suffer a horrible life in tiny cages. Yeah god said to keep breeding animals but not like this.. this is terrible. Would you breed with a monkey.. no I don’t think so ..why because its wrong. and so is this it needs to be stop…if they were ment to breed it would go on in the wild. Does it..no it doesn’t because it isn’t supposed to happen. and don’t try and tell me o its just evolution we are helping out.. for those commenter maybe you need to go back to science class and study evolution.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Nico WAY Up There Is Right. “Mankind does not deserve to be the caretaker of this planet”.
November 19th, 2006 at 6:45 am
breed a garaiff and a hippo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 21st, 2006 at 1:18 pm
[...] Yes, like horses (chromosome number 64) and donkeys (chromosome number 62), or lions (38) and tigers (38). Hybrids are possible between closely related species — here is a cool list of documented hybrids at Wikipedia. My favorite: the wolphin, a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. Here’s a top ten hybrid list, with cool pictures. [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Ahhh, glorifying crossbreads and hybrids, mixing species and races has given us such lovely animals as the killer bee and pitbull. And no where its mentioned that tigons get tumors and die after a few years (ligons do not as far as i know) but let us as humans not fuck with nature unless it does it naturally. Interesting that some consider wolfs and dogs to be the same species, granted verey little seperates them geneticly but there are many differenses when it comes to behaviours, as dogs are polygamouse, wolfs monogamouse, (bet thats the explanation to why wolfs in many ways are so supperior eg 30% more brainconnections).
November 26th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
I think this is cool but so ****en stupid. I think Genevieve is right humans do suck….sometimes, I think we should leave God’s creatures’ alone and keep what we do have.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I’m not saying whether I think this is right or wrong, but its natural for humans to explore and test knowledge- part of which is genetics.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:46 am
I’m normally not this harsh, but here, I’ll state myself frankly. If these nay-sayers haven’t noticed, humans are at the top of the ladder on everything-that’s why we’re experimenting on monkeys and not monkeys on us. Quite honestly we, as humans, can do whatever we want to do with genetics. I don’t care if it’s moral or immoral. For lack of a better term, we won the battle (of evolution/genetics) we can do whatever we want-who are animals to stop us?
November 29th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
I’m not well versed in the field of genetics though I’ve got a burning question on same issue. Here in Kenya there have been reports of stray male dogs mating with female pigs viz the case in July 2004 where a Mayor in Nyahururu town, Central Kenya ordered the shooting on sight all loitering dogs and pigs after mating openly in broad daylight. Just recently in my home town of Eldoret I witnessed a dozen male dogs mating in turns with a female pig that was certainly on heat. People of genetics can you please answer me. Is it possible that the pig’s offspring will have some percentage of dogs in it? I don’t eat pork or pork related products but I’m perturbed on account of those whose diet is centered on this Hotdogs meats. Someone answer me through ramadhaan@hotmail.com
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
I think what people are doing with cross breeding animals is sick. Leave nature alone.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:04 pm
thats just the way humans are. selfish beasts that do sick stuff to satisfy their curiosity. imagine what if one day the scientists uses you to breed with some chimpanzee? like what samantha said, if all these are meant to happen, it will naturally in the wild. but it doesn’t, does it?
December 4th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
you are correct the homonid is selfish, it as a species does sick things and most of theme have an undying thirst to fulfill their curiosity. but i really like tigers, there sex. this is why on behalf of all the other lions i say more tiger lovin.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:08 am
pig and elephant DNA just won’t splice
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
you are all so gay it hurts me to think how we have evolved to what we are today.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
you guys have way too much time on your hands. im only reading this stuff cause i was bored in class. but just for the sake of arguement. wolfs and dogs are basiclly the same species with minor changes. and there IS no record of a human chimp hybrid because one if there was the world isn’t ready for it so they woudn’t tell us, and two i highly doubt, even thought they are our “closest relatives to the animal world”, that a chimps DNA and our DNA is not close enough.
ANd YES LIGERS RULE
December 14th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
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.
THE LIGER IS PRETTY MUCH MY FAVORITE ANIMAL. PREFERRED FOR ITS SKILLS AND MAGIC
December 14th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
The cross-breeding of species through human influence is wrong in the case of using them as pets. Too many people take them, thinking it is cool, and then up shoving them into someone else’s care because they were stupid. Also, about the whole canis Lupus adn Canis rufus deal, they all have the same gensus, which means they have the same amount of cromosomes so they can breed. Also, the Mule has been found to be fertile. I do not remember the year but there was a mule off spring by the name of Blue Moon that was the product of a male and female mule breeding.
Hybrids should only be made in order to help certain regions of the world. I also believe that harmful wildlife such as hogs, and hoses in Austrailia should be removed completely, for the reason that they destroy the land, and the food scources of other native animals. That is my comment. Take it for what you will. FYI, it is impossible to cross breed a human and an ape for the fact that they do not have the same amount of chromosomes.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Well….All of these are real…except the Ti-Liger and the other three, simply because, hybrids are usually sterile.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
sarah has some good points, but i don’t think that hogs and hoses should be removed and/or destroyed just because they “destroy” the envirorment they are animals just the same and were put here to do something with their lives
December 17th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
hybrids, my ass. what the fuck are you dickheads thinkin’ about! go do somethin’ to help the world, if your bored! leave the damn animals alone.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:48 am
If god had a problem with people mixing the DNA of animals then he would do something about it. What i think is intersting is the thought of people eventually being able to extract certain DNA traits and combing them to create completly new species like putting the wing DNA into a human to make people fly. Yeh, go do that sientists, and be quick about it, im sick of walking to the shops.