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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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May 19th, 2007 at 4:03 am
fools humans have mixed plant and animals for many thousands of years its nothing new and often the results are better then the orginal plant/animal.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:38 am
i think that hybrids are awsome
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 am
This is some info for you
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• The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
• Whales annually feeding in the Bering Sea rework at least 120 million cubic metres of seabed sediment.
• Left to their own devices, pearls grow naturally only once in every 20,000 oysters.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
• Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
• A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
• Ants don’t sleep.
• The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
• Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
• The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
• Baby seals are called pups, but they’re also referred to as “weaners.”
• Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
• Of the million-plus species of insects on earth, 3,000 of them are mosquitoes. More than 165 of those live in the United States.
• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
• The average laying hen lays 257 eggs a year.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• The American alligator is a member of the crocodile family, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.
• All porcupines float in water.
• Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.
• Some butterflies are poisonous. When a predator, like a bird, eats one of these butterflies it becomes sick, vomits violently, and quickly learns not to eat this type of butterfly.
• Twelve or more cows are known as a “flink”.
• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
• Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to Ancient China.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty ‘mates’ in a single day.
• Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
• Of people with companion animals, 18% sleep with them.
• A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant. Scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee.
• About 22% of the world’s catch of tuna goes into cat food in the United States.
• The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
• Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• Yak milk is pink in color.
• A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
• 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal-other than man.
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
• When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
• Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
• It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
• Cats can have freckles. They can appear anywhere on a cat’s skin and even in its mouth.
• Siberian tigers are the largest of all of the tiger subspecies. Their size and extra thick, long coat help them survive temperatures as low as -49 degrees Fahrenheit.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
• The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
• The tallest bird in North America, the whooping crane stands 5 feet tall with a long, sinuous neck and long legs. The wings measure about 7 feet across.
• The bald eagle is truly an all-American bird - it is the only eagle unique to North America.
• It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
• Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae, but as adults they live for only a few hours.
• Did you know that at Disneyland they have like hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there’s too many people, but the reason they’re there is to catch the mice.
• Polygerus ants in the Chirivhaua Mountains in Arizona have been known to raid nearby nests, kidnap the pupae and return home with their triumphant prizes. The enemy infants are raised as their own offspring and turned into ’slaves’ who work ‘willingly’ for the good of their new hosts.
• Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster’s lip.
• A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
• The slightest touch on a cat’s whiskers will make its eyes blink.
• Elephants can detect the aroma of ripening fruit from over 20 kilometres away.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
• The Whale Shark can get up to 50 feet long and weigh over 16 tons. Its mouth can open as wide as five feet.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
• A cat’s tongue consists of small “hooks,” which come in handy when tearing up food.
• The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
• Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Only 2 out of 10 kittens born in the U.S. ever find a life-long home.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
• Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
• Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• When a domestic cat goes after mice, about one pounce in three results in a catch.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• Herons stamp and peck at mosquitoes around their feet up to three thousand times an hour. This behaviour prevents more then 80 percent of the mosquitoes from feeding on the heron’s blood.
• French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs’ heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
• The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Almost 65% of Central America has been cleared to create pastureland for grazing cattle.
• The greatest number of dogs ever owned by one person were 5000 mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
• Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female’s urine.
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
• A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
• Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
• Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.
• Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
• Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
• The Maine Coon cat is America’s only natural breed of domestic feline.
• A crocodile’s digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
• The Kiwi, national bird of new zealand, can’t fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
• Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
• Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
• A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
• House mice are able to drop vertically down 12 feet without injury. Mice can jump straight up 12 inches.
• The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog and cause excruciating pain among humans.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• Koalas have been known to make extremely loud and agressive growling noise.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
• The venom of the stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
• Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• If a shark doesn’t continually swim, it will sink.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• One square mile of rainforest has more types of butterflies than all of North America.
• A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• A female dog, her mate and her puppies can produce 12,288 dogs in five years.
• Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.
• Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
• The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
• Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
• The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.
• Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
• A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.
• A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species - in a single trip.
• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• Most brands of lipstick and some kinds of fruit drinks are tinted with extract from the cochineal insect.
• The hummingbird’s brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.
• The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.
• In Knoxville, Tennessee, it’s against the law to lasso a fish.
• The world’s most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.
• The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
• Generally, flies are abundant in the immediate vicinity of their breeding site. Under certain conditions, they may migrate 1 to 4 miles, but are usually limited to one-half to 2 miles.
• Hibernating ground squirrels’ blood has four times the amount of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) than their blood contains when they are not hibernating.
• In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have sex on the city’s airport property
• An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
• In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus.
• If a lobster loses a claw or an eye, it is usually able to grow another, although the new one is usually smaller.
• Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
• Most birds will incubate nearly any round object. Similarly, ground-nesting birds tend to roll round objects into their nests.
• Almost 50 percent of North American species of cricket were discovered only by their different songs, they are that similar to each other.
• About three new species of bird are discovered each year.
• In certain species of seals, like the elephant seal, males may be several times larger than females because larger males can better defeat their rivals in territorial fights and so acquire larger harems.y.
• The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
• Whales annually feeding in the Bering Sea rework at least 120 million cubic metres of seabed sediment.
• Left to their own devices, pearls grow naturally only once in every 20,000 oysters.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
• Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
• A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
• Ants don’t sleep.
• The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
• Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
• The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
• Baby seals are called pups, but they’re also referred to as “weaners.”
• Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
• Of the million-plus species of insects on earth, 3,000 of them are mosquitoes. More than 165 of those live in the United States.
• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
• The average laying hen lays 257 eggs a year.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• The American alligator is a member of the crocodile family, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.
• All porcupines float in water.
• Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.
• Some butterflies are poisonous. When a predator, like a bird, eats one of these butterflies it becomes sick, vomits violently, and quickly learns not to eat this type of butterfly.
• Twelve or more cows are known as a “flink”.
• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
• Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to Ancient China.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty ‘mates’ in a single day.
• Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
• Of people with companion animals, 18% sleep with them.
• A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant. Scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee.
• About 22% of the world’s catch of tuna goes into cat food in the United States.
• The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
• Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• Yak milk is pink in color.
• A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
• 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal-other than man.
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
• When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
• Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
• It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
• Cats can have freckles. They can appear anywhere on a cat’s skin and even in its mouth.
• Siberian tigers are the largest of all of the tiger subspecies. Their size and extra thick, long coat help them survive temperatures as low as -49 degrees Fahrenheit.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
• The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
• The tallest bird in North America, the whooping crane stands 5 feet tall with a long, sinuous neck and long legs. The wings measure about 7 feet across.
• The bald eagle is truly an all-American bird - it is the only eagle unique to North America.
• It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
• Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae, but as adults they live for only a few hours.
• Did you know that at Disneyland they have like hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there’s too many people, but the reason they’re there is to catch the mice.
• Polygerus ants in the Chirivhaua Mountains in Arizona have been known to raid nearby nests, kidnap the pupae and return home with their triumphant prizes. The enemy infants are raised as their own offspring and turned into ’slaves’ who work ‘willingly’ for the good of their new hosts.
• Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster’s lip.
• A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
• The slightest touch on a cat’s whiskers will make its eyes blink.
• Elephants can detect the aroma of ripening fruit from over 20 kilometres away.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
• The Whale Shark can get up to 50 feet long and weigh over 16 tons. Its mouth can open as wide as five feet.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
• A cat’s tongue consists of small “hooks,” which come in handy when tearing up food.
• The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
• Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Only 2 out of 10 kittens born in the U.S. ever find a life-long home.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
• Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
• Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• When a domestic cat goes after mice, about one pounce in three results in a catch.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• Herons stamp and peck at mosquitoes around their feet up to three thousand times an hour. This behaviour prevents more then 80 percent of the mosquitoes from feeding on the heron’s blood.
• French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs’ heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
• The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Almost 65% of Central America has been cleared to create pastureland for grazing cattle.
• The greatest number of dogs ever owned by one person were 5000 mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
• Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female’s urine.
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
• A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
• Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
• Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.
• Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
• Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
• The Maine Coon cat is America’s only natural breed of domestic feline.
• A crocodile’s digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
• The Kiwi, national bird of new zealand, can’t fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
• Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
• Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
• A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
• House mice are able to drop vertically down 12 feet without injury. Mice can jump straight up 12 inches.
• The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog and cause excruciating pain among humans.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• Koalas have been known to make extremely loud and agressive growling noise.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
• The venom of the stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
• Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• If a shark doesn’t continually swim, it will sink.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• One square mile of rainforest has more types of butterflies than all of North America.
• A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• A female dog, her mate and her puppies can produce 12,288 dogs in five years.
• Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.
• Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
• The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
• Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
• The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.
• Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
• A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.
• A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species - in a single trip.
• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• Most brands of lipstick and some kinds of fruit drinks are tinted with extract from the cochineal insect.
• The hummingbird’s brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.
• The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.
• In Knoxville, Tennessee, it’s against the law to lasso a fish.
• The world’s most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.
• The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
• Generally, flies are abundant in the immediate vicinity of their breeding site. Under certain conditions, they may migrate 1 to 4 miles, but are usually limited to one-half to 2 miles.
• Hibernating ground squirrels’ blood has four times the amount of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) than their blood contains when they are not hibernating.
• In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have sex on the city’s airport property
• An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
• In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus.
• If a lobster loses a claw or an eye, it is usually able to grow another, although the new one is usually smaller.
• Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
• Most birds will incubate nearly any round object. Similarly, ground-nesting birds tend to roll round objects into their nests.
• Almost 50 percent of North American species of cricket were discovered only by their different songs, they are that similar to each other.
• About three new species of bird are discovered each year.
• In certain species of seals, like the elephant seal, males may be several times larger than females because larger males can better defeat their rivals in territorial fights and so acquire larger harems.y.
• The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
• Whales annually feeding in the Bering Sea rework at least 120 million cubic metres of seabed sediment.
• Left to their own devices, pearls grow naturally only once in every 20,000 oysters.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
• Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
• A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
• Ants don’t sleep.
• The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
• Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
• The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
• Baby seals are called pups, but they’re also referred to as “weaners.”
• Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
• Of the million-plus species of insects on earth, 3,000 of them are mosquitoes. More than 165 of those live in the United States.
• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
• The average laying hen lays 257 eggs a year.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• The American alligator is a member of the crocodile family, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.
• All porcupines float in water.
• Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.
• Some butterflies are poisonous. When a predator, like a bird, eats one of these butterflies it becomes sick, vomits violently, and quickly learns not to eat this type of butterfly.
• Twelve or more cows are known as a “flink”.
• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
• Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to Ancient China.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty ‘mates’ in a single day.
• Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
• Of people with companion animals, 18% sleep with them.
• A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant. Scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee.
• About 22% of the world’s catch of tuna goes into cat food in the United States.
• The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
• Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• Yak milk is pink in color.
• A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
• 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal-other than man.
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
• When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
• Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
• It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
• Cats can have freckles. They can appear anywhere on a cat’s skin and even in its mouth.
• Siberian tigers are the largest of all of the tiger subspecies. Their size and extra thick, long coat help them survive temperatures as low as -49 degrees Fahrenheit.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
• The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
• The tallest bird in North America, the whooping crane stands 5 feet tall with a long, sinuous neck and long legs. The wings measure about 7 feet across.
• The bald eagle is truly an all-American bird - it is the only eagle unique to North America.
• It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
• Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae, but as adults they live for only a few hours.
• Did you know that at Disneyland they have like hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there’s too many people, but the reason they’re there is to catch the mice.
• Polygerus ants in the Chirivhaua Mountains in Arizona have been known to raid nearby nests, kidnap the pupae and return home with their triumphant prizes. The enemy infants are raised as their own offspring and turned into ’slaves’ who work ‘willingly’ for the good of their new hosts.
• Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster’s lip.
• A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
• The slightest touch on a cat’s whiskers will make its eyes blink.
• Elephants can detect the aroma of ripening fruit from over 20 kilometres away.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
• The Whale Shark can get up to 50 feet long and weigh over 16 tons. Its mouth can open as wide as five feet.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
• A cat’s tongue consists of small “hooks,” which come in handy when tearing up food.
• The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
• Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Only 2 out of 10 kittens born in the U.S. ever find a life-long home.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
• Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
• Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• When a domestic cat goes after mice, about one pounce in three results in a catch.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• Herons stamp and peck at mosquitoes around their feet up to three thousand times an hour. This behaviour prevents more then 80 percent of the mosquitoes from feeding on the heron’s blood.
• French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs’ heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
• The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Almost 65% of Central America has been cleared to create pastureland for grazing cattle.
• The greatest number of dogs ever owned by one person were 5000 mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
• Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female’s urine.
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
• A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
• Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
• Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.
• Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
• Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
• The Maine Coon cat is America’s only natural breed of domestic feline.
• A crocodile’s digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
• The Kiwi, national bird of new zealand, can’t fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
• Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
• Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
• A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
• House mice are able to drop vertically down 12 feet without injury. Mice can jump straight up 12 inches.
• The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog and cause excruciating pain among humans.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• Koalas have been known to make extremely loud and agressive growling noise.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
• The venom of the stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
• Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• If a shark doesn’t continually swim, it will sink.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• One square mile of rainforest has more types of butterflies than all of North America.
• A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• A female dog, her mate and her puppies can produce 12,288 dogs in five years.
• Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.
• Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
• The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
• Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
• The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.
• Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
• A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.
• A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species - in a single trip.
• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• Most brands of lipstick and some kinds of fruit drinks are tinted with extract from the cochineal insect.
• The hummingbird’s brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.
• The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.
• In Knoxville, Tennessee, it’s against the law to lasso a fish.
• The world’s most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.
• The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
• Generally, flies are abundant in the immediate vicinity of their breeding site. Under certain conditions, they may migrate 1 to 4 miles, but are usually limited to one-half to 2 miles.
• Hibernating ground squirrels’ blood has four times the amount of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) than their blood contains when they are not hibernating.
• In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have sex on the city’s airport property
• An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
• In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus.
• If a lobster loses a claw or an eye, it is usually able to grow another, although the new one is usually smaller.
• Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
• Most birds will incubate nearly any round object. Similarly, ground-nesting birds tend to roll round objects into their nests.
• Almost 50 percent of North American species of cricket were discovered only by their different songs, they are that similar to each other.
• About three new species of bird are discovered each year.
• In certain species of seals, like the elephant seal, males may be several times larger than females because larger males can better defeat their rivals in territorial fights and so acquire larger harems.y.
• The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
• Whales annually feeding in the Bering Sea rework at least 120 million cubic metres of seabed sediment.
• Left to their own devices, pearls grow naturally only once in every 20,000 oysters.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• The average adult male ostrich, the world’s largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
• Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
• A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
• Ants don’t sleep.
• The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
• Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
• The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
• Baby seals are called pups, but they’re also referred to as “weaners.”
• Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent.
• Of the million-plus species of insects on earth, 3,000 of them are mosquitoes. More than 165 of those live in the United States.
• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
• The average laying hen lays 257 eggs a year.
• A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
• The American alligator is a member of the crocodile family, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years.
• All porcupines float in water.
• Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.
• Some butterflies are poisonous. When a predator, like a bird, eats one of these butterflies it becomes sick, vomits violently, and quickly learns not to eat this type of butterfly.
• Twelve or more cows are known as a “flink”.
• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
• Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to Ancient China.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty ‘mates’ in a single day.
• Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
• Of people with companion animals, 18% sleep with them.
• A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant. Scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee.
• About 22% of the world’s catch of tuna goes into cat food in the United States.
• The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
• Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• Yak milk is pink in color.
• A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
• 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal-other than man.
• Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
• When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
• Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
• It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
• Cats can have freckles. They can appear anywhere on a cat’s skin and even in its mouth.
• Siberian tigers are the largest of all of the tiger subspecies. Their size and extra thick, long coat help them survive temperatures as low as -49 degrees Fahrenheit.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
• The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
• The tallest bird in North America, the whooping crane stands 5 feet tall with a long, sinuous neck and long legs. The wings measure about 7 feet across.
• The bald eagle is truly an all-American bird - it is the only eagle unique to North America.
• It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
• Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae, but as adults they live for only a few hours.
• Did you know that at Disneyland they have like hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out during the day because there’s too many people, but the reason they’re there is to catch the mice.
• Polygerus ants in the Chirivhaua Mountains in Arizona have been known to raid nearby nests, kidnap the pupae and return home with their triumphant prizes. The enemy infants are raised as their own offspring and turned into ’slaves’ who work ‘willingly’ for the good of their new hosts.
• Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster’s lip.
• A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
• The slightest touch on a cat’s whiskers will make its eyes blink.
• Elephants can detect the aroma of ripening fruit from over 20 kilometres away.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
• The Whale Shark can get up to 50 feet long and weigh over 16 tons. Its mouth can open as wide as five feet.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.
• A cat’s tongue consists of small “hooks,” which come in handy when tearing up food.
• The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
• Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Only 2 out of 10 kittens born in the U.S. ever find a life-long home.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
• Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
• The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
• Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• When a domestic cat goes after mice, about one pounce in three results in a catch.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• Herons stamp and peck at mosquitoes around their feet up to three thousand times an hour. This behaviour prevents more then 80 percent of the mosquitoes from feeding on the heron’s blood.
• French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe. The dogs thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter marked his dogs’ heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs apart.
• The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn’t sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Almost 65% of Central America has been cleared to create pastureland for grazing cattle.
• The greatest number of dogs ever owned by one person were 5000 mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
• Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female’s urine.
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
• A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
• Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
• Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and o
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
Hello, My name is TyLisa,
i think it is very wrong to hibrid animals becasue they wernt intended to be that way. When you do that to animals they have issues and dont live as long as normal animals do. I Feel really bad for the animals that have to die young for an expeiriment that some wacko decided to do.
TyLisa
May 26th, 2007 at 9:58 am
man is a sick creature we are trying to play god here its all going to go awry
May 28th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I think it would be great to see the liger as a new specie. No longer would hippo girafe or elephants be a challenge. I just hope they don’t go ape with us and make the honkey….
May 28th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
P.S as a wildlife fanatic I think theres nothin wrong with creatin new life no harm has been done
May 29th, 2007 at 7:39 am
A mà a mi familia no nos agradó que el ser humano por falsa vanidad pudiera siquiera manipular la genética de estos pobres animales, terminando alguno de ellos, incluso en la mesa del Taxidermista.
Que acaso no vieron la deformidad FenotÃpica de Rama o del Hybrid Pheasant ?.
Hablamos de Dwarfismo creado por el hombre????.
Cuál será la meta del ser humano???
Dr. Juan Bailetti y Familia.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
K CHIDO ESTAN LAS IMAGENES, Y MAS POR K ME ENKANTANLOS FELINOS Y ESTA SUPER PADRE LAS FOTOS DE ESOS FELINOS HIBRIDOS SE PUDIERON DESARROLLAR ESPERO Y SE KONSIGAN MAS FOTOS =)
May 30th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
is it possible to breed animals from different gene pools and different species???
like birds and reptiles or cats and dogs or a aquatic and land animals
May 31st, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I think it would be cool to see the offspring of a human and a big ass bird. Like a bird-man or something. Flying around to work and stuff. Probably live in the trees but maybe not. I wonder if it would have the shape of a human with the brain of a bird or the other way around. Imagine if a bird had a human brain.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:08 am
There was a supposed man-chimp hybrid sideshow attraction in the 70’s called “Oliver the Humanzee”.This turned to be a hoax.We are SOOO closely related that a hybrid would be as possible as a mule.Problem is that it would literally be a sin to create such a hybrid.In the godless days of the Soviet Union a scientist tried to create humanzee in a lab and in Africa.He was unsuccessful,but I feel with morer attempts at it he would have succeeded.He was eventually sentenced to Kazakhstan.It’s been rumored a humanzee was created in China.When locals heard about it,the mob destroyed the lab and killed the hybrid.What kind of rights would this thing have?The more human it was,the more rights it would have,I assume.For instance,if it could speak.It would most likely have the intelligence of a severely retarted person and look like an artists rendition of homo erectus or something.A Humanzee would be a fascinating beast,but I don’t think anybody has the nerve to attempt such an outlandish experiment.
June 4th, 2007 at 9:22 am
wow. I really think things should be left alone. I mean things were made a certain way. Why should we go “playing god” and messing things up. Who knows what could happen. If scientists are really that bored. why dont they just find different ways to fix economical problems– green house gases. Make more hybrid cars! who woulda thunk.
June 4th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
the liger is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!
June 11th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
wow, too much talk about the mythical figure god! please stop being mean to americans they are indivdually very nice for the most part and should not be blamed for their countrys faults and superiority complex. hybrids and genetic modification are constructs not of man but of nature, we have merely pushed the boundary when exploring this facet of nature. i have had pets throughout my life so i beg you all please stop fucking them, yes means yes everything else means no! great chat forum i thought all the science people were awesome. hey jake hooverur mom bored much! to killer you sir are a lackwit imbred moron and kj reading your posts made me want to kill myself because i cant find you sorry but true ps. australia because someone will want to know
June 12th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Hybrids occur naturely and people have crossed donkeys with horses to get “mules/hinnys” for years and the domestic dog was once a wolf. So I don’t find anything wrong with wolfdogs, in all actuallity wolfdogs have a longer life span than a dog. They are smarter and more loyal.
Dogs breed with coytotes, wolfs, and any other canine in heat. There have been polar bears that breed with grizzly bears in the wild, a tabby and a bobcat have bred, wild Mouflon sheep and domesticated sheep on occation have bred when in proximity, and many others such as… Kangaroo-Gray and red cross, Hybrid Elephant- African and Asian, Chausie - Tabby/African Wild Cat, Beefalo - Cattalo - Zubron,
Polecat/Ferret, Yak Crosses, Pig/Wild Pig, Cama - Llamel, Bobcat/Lynx - Caracal - Servical and etc.
These animals in this collection really do exist. The development of these animals was by either human intervention, a freak act of nature or both. A genetic (or biological) species is defined by the ability
to produce fertile young. When individuals can interbreed and produce fertile young they are described as the same species. So in all actuallity hybrids are not freaks and should not be considered ae such.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:48 am
look at yourselves!!! u are all thinking of what animal u want to mix and how cuuute it will look!!stuff a sock full of crap in it!!!! WHATS YOUR STINKIN PROBLEM!! ITS SOOO MESSED UP!! what happens if something horrible happens?? animals start dying out and we dont know why, maybe its the stinkin project of forcing animals to mate and give birth to a mutated thing that might not even survive!!!! i mean its fine if its natural like the wolf dog and stuff, but forcing them!!?? whats the freakin point??!! IDIOTS!!! MESSED UP FREAKIN IDOITS!! ITS OUTRAGOIUS!! THINK OF ALL THE POOR LITTLE BABIES THAT DIE EVERY SIGLE DAY CUZ OF THIS CRAP!!!! ITS FREAKIN CRAAAAAPPPP!!!!!!!! EVERYONE WHO THINKS ITS OK IS SOOOOO FLIPPIN MESSED UP, THEY SHOULD TRY IT OUT FOR THEMSELVES!! ANIMALS CAN FEEL PAIN TOO!! I LIKE THE COMENT THAT THIS ONE DUDE SAID, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE SQUEEZING A BUNCH OF RAT SPERM IN YOUR BUTT!?!?!!! SICK!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 9:14 am
[...] a little internet research led me to a site with the Top 10 Hybrid Animals. My Liger is there, too! Well, not my specific Liger but a Liger nonetheless. If this stuff [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 12:49 am
these animals are unique i would love to buy one if i could ever afford it lol…..
June 25th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Kat Von D…
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….
June 26th, 2007 at 9:13 am
compadres, yo tengo un animalito raro en la finca de cienaga que salio en el cruze entre un pitbull y pantera, es macho estoy buscado una hembra, si ustedes saben de una me escriben o me la mandan pa la finca
att wicho portuano
June 26th, 2007 at 9:23 am
compae don wicho, le comento que yo tengo un animalito raro igualito al suyo pero es hembra la perra esa, la tengo en la guajira en la hacienda mi chacaral cerca de el hoyo soplador, en este momento me encuentro en maicao arreglando el machito, digame no mas y se la llevo a donde usted quiera, eso si le advierto la mitad de las crias son mias.
atte:
javier lozano
June 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
You’re all twisted!
Playing with the genetics of endangered species can only lead to disaster for the animals themselves!
How many are now suffering form weird illnesses and deficiencies?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:45 am
that cama is nuts and to call it rama the cama was v.funny
June 29th, 2007 at 3:23 am
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June 30th, 2007 at 1:15 am
To: Mikael Bergkvist
It would still be a hybrid whether they are of the same species or not. Hybrids between sub-species are know as intra-specific hybrids.
Sorry if some one already said that, but I wasn’t about to read every single one of those comments.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:17 am
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June 30th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Skrew a Pony, I want a Zony
June 30th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I want to breed Dalmatians with Llamas. I would call them Dali-llamas
July 1st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Very interesting website but hybrid pheasant very common.It is not hybrid(only mutation)
Pigeon/Dove Hybrid is very famous and on the top in the world but not seen on this website.
If anyone have some new information or pictures about pigeon/dove hybrids?
Please send on my email address?
zakriya_78@yahoo.com
July 5th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
hey people what if they cross a sting ray and a shark? they’re relatives anyway.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
i have a wolf dog at my parents place. in my opinion they are very good animals especially when trained properly and is given the right type of care. she is the most obedient animal I’ve owned. there is only one problem that we have with her shes food aggressive towards other animals mainly males. but her being crossed with a labrador she has they typical lab waist line.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:28 am
I wonder if they crossed a dingo and a begal if they would call it a BINGO
July 6th, 2007 at 1:52 am
i think it is amazing how animals can be like that i saw one in real life
July 6th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Yeah chimpanzees gave us aids. wtf
July 6th, 2007 at 2:30 am
What is this, some kind of recipe? Lets mix this, lets mix the other thing, what is the world coming to??? R U out of your minds? soon you will be thinking: Hey, how about i mix my daughter with my son, I wonder what I’ll get, Will that kid be my grandkid or my kid? Right now it sounds outragous, but so is this!!!! I totaly agree with killer!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I wonder if a female would have sex with a male lion, would she have a sphinx?
July 8th, 2007 at 3:56 am
I wanted to know if you were to cross a tiger with a leopard or cheetah is it possible to have both stripes and spots? That would be pretty cool. But if you were to cross a clouded leopard with a regular leopard would it be considered a regular leopard or a cross? Thanks if anyone can answer these questions!
P.S. I’m a 13 year old that is really intrested in become a zoologist or animal genetics feilds/medical feilds.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:20 am
That is so COOL!!!
July 10th, 2007 at 10:25 am
To Robin:
A tiger/cheetah hybrid will have resemblances so it’s possibe. Refer to Ligers, or Leopons.
Offspring produced from mating a hybrid with a ‘regular’ amimal will result in a hybrid, since the hybrid is not of the same species.
Good that you are interested. All the best to you.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
i caught a tiger musky up here in minnesota at first i just thought it was a ugly pike but my friend told me it was a tiger musky it was about 38 inches long that confirms your story wavoka
July 12th, 2007 at 3:29 am
The Zonkey should be called a Azz…
July 12th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Jake Hoover Ur mom- I wish I had as much free time as you obviously do…
And to everyone talking about cruelty, why do you think someone ‘made’ lions & tigers mate? Have any of you ever seen a cat in heat?? No force required!!! A great many of you folks need to get a life….. except, of course, all of you who are so ‘ashamed to be human’- you should all do away with yourselves, thus solving your problem & helping decrease the surplus population.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Some of the natural hybrids are quite interesting. The golden pheasant X lady amherst pheasant is beautiful. Guppies are, well guppies and will cross with other livebearing fish at times.
Locally, DNA testing proved that bobcat X canadian lynx outcrosses have occured when 3 wild cats were tested with characteristics of both parents.
Humans crossing with chimpanzees or gorillas or orangutans or whatever ……… yikes ….. let’s not go there.
July 13th, 2007 at 5:33 am
I have gone through some of the comments. OK be it as it may.
The pics are good.
Collection is commendable
impactr on eco is one concern.
disease generation (like AIDS) is also a concern
One Question:
Has it happened on natural mating or artificially inseminated.?
What if funky brainy fellow inseminates an innocent women with any animal semen?
Lets take care.
As Indian great matinee idol of yester years MR Rajkapoor had said:
Its not sufficient to watch only fronty, back, left and right, we should watch up as well as down!
Ye bhai,
zara dekh khe challo
Aage bhi nahi peeche bhi
UUper bhi nahi neeche bhi!
The last concern is, if its happening in tyhe natural course without human intervention, study needs to know whether it is for good or bad.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
maybe i watched too much x men when i was younger but chimps like ” the humanzee” which was a deformed monkey could be what monkeys might evolve to in the future i don’t know just some stupid shit for yall to think about
July 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
hmm, i did some research on this “humanzee” seems to be smarter then any chimp anyone has ever seen before, oliver was definitely more evolved then other chimps there fore maybe more and more chimps might be born like this making them smarter and more evolved… sorry i know that chimps and monkeys are different im just used to saying monkeys
July 18th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
evolution’s pace varies especially if there is still hybridation
July 18th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
hybridations is a magnificant thing (pardon my spelling). I belive we are starting a new era of animals from two species. I am highly intersested in hybridtation and have reserched on it alot, i am not amused with the highly stupid duds that childish people have made e.g. hudog, owlcat so on and so forth. one day i want to see a liger or a tigon in the fur but untill that day i guess i’ll have to stick with reserch.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 am
okay then whats a platypus? when i was little i used to think it was some kind of mixed bread between a duck and a beaver.. but of course, thats not possible. Does anybody think it some kinda of cross bread? or just a rare unusual animal that happens to have characteristics of those that we know.?
July 27th, 2007 at 12:16 am
It has begun, they are coming…
July 29th, 2007 at 3:40 am
u guys are freaks… some of these animals are cute and all, but seriously! ur killing and harming these poor animals.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Nature has a funny way of correcting itself. Many hybrids are created solely for the purpose of expanding our knowledge of genetics. Often times, the method used to create a hybrid is reproduced and many are sold as pets. These animals are lucky to have had a chance at life. Lets not forget that. Animals are killed for food and i see many complaining about the massive amount of suffering an animal undergoes through the many different processes necessary to create a hybrid species. Absolutely ridiculous. The worst injury may be an injured phallus or punctured ovum. Big whoop. Captive animals have no place in the wild due to their lack of knowledge of the wild. Thanks to so many different genetic experiments we have been lead into the world of Stem Cells. For those of you that regard scientists as pigs for “pretending to be god” you are all very ignorant. Take away science and the many perplexities required that eventually lead to the wonderous world of vaccinations and treatments and what do you have? Death. Very intelligent men and women are working very hard to vreate a better world for all of us. Unfortunately, many of these finds are exploited. Thus is the nature of man.
For those of you that disagree, enjoy a horribly boring life and painful death. quit using modern medicine and see how long you last. Make a difference, bury yourself alive so we can quicken the pace of science. Quit trying to combine science and religion! History has taught us that it is the organized religion that has been the largest disease and killer of man. You can believe in god and research as well. Genius idea eh?
We as humans are not mortally fit to judge man, so stop. Each and every comment regarding how science is playing god has been a judgemen, a sin, that all of you god fearing “im non-judgemental” hypocrates will pay for by your gods. Science is blessed by god. Examine your brains, if it wasn’t for science you most likely wouldnt be here.
July 30th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Does anyone know if you can cross breed a turtle and a tortoise to make a turtoise?
August 8th, 2007 at 1:05 am
can you cross breed my neighbor ALLAN to different kinds of animals like monkey, pigs or rat or in my janitor fish or in the mosquitos, bugs,earthworm or even here in the smallest maggots on my guava fruits……?
August 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
These hybrids do look pretty cool and it’s kinda neat to imagine what 2 animals combined would look like, but there’s a certain point to where you gotta draw the line. I guess if there was a different/better purpose for doing it other than ‘to create a new species’ or ‘just to see what happens’ perhaps I would agree with it. Otherwise, it is playing God if you’re doing it just to tampir with God’s Creation and see what happens.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:23 am
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August 19th, 2007 at 5:41 am
i think it is sad that people would artificially inceminate animals. I think if it occurs natrually that is one thing, but why should we cross animals that would never meet, much less breed together in the wild. Look at white tigers, they are not a normal species. They derived from a cross of tigers all branching from the same one, a white tiger found in the wild that would have died from starvation because it wouldn’t have gotten food. the tiger was breed to an orange tiger, produceing only orange tigers, only when it was breed to it’s granddaughter was there a white tiger born. Most white tigers have defects and these are put down for the most part because there isnt room in reserves for them. Why do people contine to do this to the tigers? it is because people like to watch them more than a normal, healthy orange tiger. If it happens in the wild, nature usually kills it, with people the animal may die, but after we have attempted to ’save’ it and have prolonged suffering and it still will usually die, or will live in suffering. Whats even more pathetic is when people read this they admit to doing things to thier own pets. to them i say: may you be attacked by your pet and may it run away and find a good home while you rot for your sin.
August 19th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Also, some people have said on this that they are trying to help find vaccines or somthing to stop disease. Well to them, how is messing with an animal’s genetics and getting deformed animals helping humans or animals in any way?
August 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
i agree with West i think that 2 animals put together is pretty cool to see what they turn out like, like thier charocteristics and stuff but we should just leave them to be because there is a point where u should not be breeding them. what are they gonna come up with now? a whale and a mouse what are they thinking?
kass*
August 19th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
u r right Victoria! o think it is sad too! i am an animal lover . . . i have 43 but anyway scientists and stuff should get a brain! how would you like it if u had to breed a hippo or something?!?!?and if u where that hippo/human? huh? think about that!!!!!
kass*
August 20th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Somebody used my email address July 1, 2007 @ 12:34 pm on this webpage.So i please request you to remove my email address from this website http://www.hemmy.net/2006/06/19/top-10-hybrid-animals/
August 21st, 2007 at 5:23 am
Look, here’s the point:
First off, it’s probably true that no one involved in the making of this site, nor anyone here reading this or looking at these pictures actually had anything to do with breeding these animals. So the “oh, this is horrible please stop it” comments are probably falling on deaf (or argumentative) ears.
Secondly, these animals are found all over the world. It’s not only Americans. And even if it were only Americans, it’s not any of your business unless we’re planning on building any army of ligers to wage war on your country. In which case, you better shut up or we’ll starting working faster…
Thirdly, I don’t think that anyone here is genuinely interested in the family, genus, species debate. If you are you can probably find a better place for information than a site where anyone can say whatever they want willy-nilly.
Fourthly, scientists are breeding these animals AND rearing them. No one is inseminating a lion with tiger sperm and then saying “Off you go, Good Luck!” These animals, while undergoing some admittedly strange experimentation are being well cared for and you can bet that more money is being spent on their well-being than most people get for theirs. (I realize that this opens up a whole new debate that I am not really interested in partaking in…)
Lastly, it’s interesting. Believe it or don’t. No one can tell you otherwise. Enjoy the pictures, soak up the information. And if something isn’t sitting right with you, find the appropriate place to voice your opinions, or a knowledgeable outlet for further reading.
Thanks for a great site!
August 21st, 2007 at 5:29 am
All life is suffering… that’s what makes it “LIFE”.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:39 am
First off, it’s probably true that no one involved in the making of this site, nor anyone here reading this or looking at these pictures actually had anything to do with breeding these animals. So the “oh, this is horrible please stop it” comments are probably falling on deaf (or argumentative) ears.
Secondly, these animals are found all over the world. It’s not only Americans. And even if it were only Americans, it’s not any of your business unless we’re planning on building any army of ligers to wage war on your country. In which case, you better shut up or we’ll starting working faster…
Thirdly, I don’t think that anyone here is genuinely interested in the family, genus, species debate. If you are you can probably find a better place for information than a site where anyone can say whatever they want willy-nilly.
Fourthly, scientists are breeding these animals AND rearing them. No one is inseminating a lion with tiger sperm and then saying “Off you go, Good Luck!” These animals, while undergoing some admittedly strange experimentation are being well cared for and you can bet that more money is being spent on their well-being than most people get for theirs. (I realize that this opens up a whole new debate that I am not really interested in partaking in…)
Lastly, it’s interesting. Believe it or don’t. No one can tell you otherwise. Enjoy the pictures, soak up the information. And if something isn’t sitting right with you, find the appropriate place to voice your opinions, or a knowledgeable outlet for further reading.
Thanks for a great site!
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 am
i like this page and want to save it
August 25th, 2007 at 12:46 am
I think the baby camale is really cute i want to pet one one day!!!!!!!!!!! I wish they would have them in the zoo!!!! hahahahaha im crazy im just putting something on here so i can see it
August 29th, 2007 at 3:35 am
This is the coolest stuff ever! One of my students asked the question about Ligers and I thought that they were only form Napoleon Dynomite!! How fasinating this site is. Thanks for the great pix and information. I will show this to my Sixth grade kids!!
September 7th, 2007 at 9:33 am
i used to own a wolf dog it was half timber wolf half huskey she was very hard to tame but when she was tamed she was an amazing wolf dog
September 7th, 2007 at 9:56 am
This is so wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness. Ur hurting these poor animals. I learned in science class that some of these animals won’t be able to reproduce. POWER TO THE ANIMALS right “me think u pplz are stupid^^said
September 8th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
So do y’all think my chihuahua would be able to breed my neighbours great dane (lol) NOT that I would ever think of trying it , its just interesting to see some of the animals mixed.
Today alone asked 4 people if there was such thing as a zorse and they all laffed at me and said NO!!!
September 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
penso che non ci sia danno essendo fatto penso che sia grande che creiamo la vita nuova perché lo sguardo a tutti gli animali andando estinto. e tutto l’u l’emos di fottere gaio che r il goin di uccidere il suo stesso ha indossato perché questo è una cosa buona
September 11th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I ahve succesfully breeded with a chimpanzee and have my own child. during intercourse, i literallly hadad to hold it down to get it to co-operate plz msg and speak your mind
September 12th, 2007 at 3:40 am
could they bred a panther and a tiger?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
[...] Así que, ya podemos decir que ha aparecido, el primer "cerdoveja". Incluso alguien se ha preocupado de hacer un top-ten de animales híbridos [...]
September 13th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Right, lets get one thing straight shall we… there is no god.
Panthers and Tigers would be cool. Tanther or Piger?
Also if you crossed Dire Straits with Chris Rea, youwould get Dire Rea. Its an oldie but a goodie.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:51 am
[...] I came across a list of the Top 10 Hybrid Animals. Go ahead and try not to laugh at the zebroid or [...]
September 17th, 2007 at 3:24 am
I woke up with a hangover. found this site, read the whole thing, had a good laugh, and forgot about the hangover.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
haha this is really cool it helped me with my speech on hybrid animals!!!! I GOT AN A!!!!!!! WOOT WOOT!
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am
wow. I couldn’t read every post. E-hem. Go to the site about Hercules the ligre. (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/liger.asp#photo) They did not intentionally bred this ligre. It happened…. hello nature. Let’s all cry about how cruel people are.
And allow me, if you will, to elaborate on the phrase “people shouldn’t play god.”
No, people shouldn’t, cause we’re all morons deep down. But breeding is not “playing god.” God CREATED the animals from nothing. He CREATED Adam from the dust, which He made as well. (don’t argue about whether or not the Bible is real, I just hate it when I read the same dumb post over and over. This isn’t meant to be some religious debate)
People aren’t making these creatures appear by using their superpowers, thus they are not playing God. And please don’t argue about God being real or whatever, this was a post about hybrids, not religion.
So to sum up my random rants breeding isn’t playing god, so get over it.
and i’m sure i said something stupid, but i’m just a dumb seventeen year old. so please forgive me you all-knowing bloggers
September 26th, 2007 at 6:08 am
WHAT THE HECK?!?!?
Is a flying pig considered a hybird????????
September 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
to M: smart comment from a young adult (in fact smarter than the overwhelming majority of stuff that has been posted here) i kept thinking as i read all of this stuff that this “cruel experimentation” as so many have branded it, is no different from the experimentation that has gone on in nature for millions and millions of years. The animals that are alive today are a consequence of evolution and — in some cases — cross-breeding of older, perhaps extinct species. Nature has been bending and twisting and warping species into something new since the first paramecium was created a few billion years ago. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be here having any of these discussions. That man has attempted to make a few of those twists himself is NOT god-like behavior as M has pointed out. God created animals of all sorts with substantially less material to work with. The ones that we have today are a consequence of natural laws that he created and put into place an eternity ago. On the other hand, if you don’t believe in God, then it is all a direct result of pseudo-random events. They aren’t totally random because the changes in the geology of our planet are, for the most part, a logical progression due to the cooling of the planet (there is some level of randomness, as the climate has been changed by catastrophic events such as asteroid strikes), and the animals that are alive today are a consequence of the changes in the atmosphere and temperature of the planet, as well as the local terrain. (For example, when the dinosaurs shook the ground, the atmosphere contained a lot more oxygen than it does today, and the temperature was considerably warmer.) Is it reasonable to assume that animals in the past did not cross-breed? No. And it is not reasonable to assume that they do not do so today. It is rare, however, because different species have different habits and different scents that either bring them together (similar species) or keep them apart (dissimilar species). And of course, there is also a question of basic geography. How do we know that a lion would not mate with a tiger in the wild? At the moment they don’t because they don’t live in the same places! Ditto for horses, zebras and ponies. So is man playing God? No, he is merely performing experiments that may or may not happen in nature because of environmental differences on animals that have differentiated from each other precisely because of those environmental differences. to the uneducated cretins who have decided to use this page as a means of trashing the US, these beasts were not made here in the US, for the most part. Hybridization of animals has been going on since long before this continent was discovered by the Europeans. And besides, is hybridization to create a new animal even comparable to the slaughter of animals to acquire ivory or hormones from a single organ for the purpose of having fun? As has been pointed out above, these animals and their off-spring have generally been well cared for so they have not suffered. The only negative point from above that i agree with is that there has probably been limited scientific value to this sort of experimentation, but we have learned a few things. And someday it might be important in understanding aspects of evolution. Oh, one last comment: to the fellow who has trouble with “long” comments: if your attention span is so limited, then perhaps you should return to reading something more on your level: McGuffey’s First Reader, for example.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Notwithstanding my lack of credentials in the fields of biological sciences, I would dare to advance (humbly) a hypothesis that the resurgency of gigantism in hybridization , in particular, the liger, may be an ativism to paleolithic ancestry,, a throwback as it were to a memory gene structure.
The earliest known lion ancestor is a form like Panthera gombaszoegensis from early Pleistocene (about 1.5 million years old) deposits at Olduvai Gorge in East Africa. It had both lion- and tiger-like characters. Primitive lions (Panthera leo fossilis) dispersed in the Old World about 500,000 years ago, in harmony with changing climate and the spread of steppe-like terrain, to which lions were well adapted. “Panthera youngi”, with similarities to both cave and American lions, appeared in northeastern China (Choukoutien) some 350,000 years ago or less. Probably it links Panthera leo fossilis and the “spelaea” group (cave lions of Eurasia and America) the other category being the “leo” group including the modern lions of southern Asia and Africa.
These pre-historic cats were of gigantic dimensions and I would question modern day hybrids as being completely “new” as opposed to the genetic content of their extinct common ancestors. Camels were North American in origin and existed in vast herds on the continent also. Also the horse was here too, and became extinct , re-introduced by the Spaniards.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Re: list of facts
“…25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused…”
Not of unknown origin then, are they.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:47 am
on the human and chimp breeding topic - such precise chemical reactions combine at the forming of a zygote that a hybrid between two species is amazingly rare. The fact that we even have succesful hybrid species is an amazing thing- thus the reason that fertilization is rare during intercourse- and most hybrids are sterile. Scientists believe that the forming of a human species away from other apes and chimpanzees, from where we are believed to originate ( Darwinism) that the genes are not campatible, and will never happen.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I wonder if there has ever been a simese twin of one of these hybrids. It would be pretty sweet looking if there was…
October 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
its not playing god by the way. god would not have put animals that can be cross bred on this planet if he didn’t want us to cross breed.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Actually “Hitler’s Scientists” never tried to breed Chimpanzees with Humans. Just because they did a lot of screwed up stuff doesn’t mean they had no boundries. The Nazis were all about racial purity, so the idea of them wanting humans to breed with Chimpanzees is absurd, to be honest. This rumor was probably started because Joseph Mengles liked to torture female prisoners by showing them pictures of Chimpanzees as a threat. He never actually acted on this threat though, since it would be completely antithical to the actual goal of his twisted research (making the racially pure Over-man).
It was actually a Soviet Scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who actively tried to breed humans with Chimpanzees. He was preparing to inseminate human female prisoners in a Gulag with Chimpanzee sperm when he was purged by Stalin. The Soviets thought that a Chimpanzee human hybrid would make a strong compliant workforce which they could breed in droves to perform menial labor, thereby eliminating the need to feed and control their large gulag workforce. If succeeded then female gulag prisoners were planned to become “Humanzee” baby factories. IMHO the plan would have never worked, even if the breeding ever worked the Humanzees would be mentally deficient and probably prone to anger, as many mentally deficient humans are (Since their mental deficiencies are often very frustrating to them).
October 16th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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October 17th, 2007 at 8:16 am
So if you bred a lion and a dog it’d be called a Log?
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I’ve met a few people that must have been the offspring of the species, plain idiot, and jackass.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:52 am
well wat to comment, liger looks gr8, i think its nice, can v have a hybrid between house cat and a lion. wat kind of animal vill v have. a Caon. Think
October 24th, 2007 at 4:58 am
if a Caon appears then v need to keep the domestic cats away from forests .
October 26th, 2007 at 7:30 am
actually…dog-wolf breedings are very common..where do you all think the Husky and the German Shepard came from?? oh geez..im gonna take a shot in the dark and say…from wolves and dogs!!! no, wolves and dogs are NOT the same species…but they DO belong to the same family which is why they are able to mate together…i wouldn’t consider it a hybrid because it’s too common and happens oh too often…especially where im from. but the others are suitable.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:43 am
this is just sick leave the animals alone and shape up the human race!!!!!!!!!
October 29th, 2007 at 10:31 am
monica
Definitely, the most sensible thing i have seen in a long time.
November 14th, 2007 at 7:11 am
man please leave the animals alone please they wont be able to breed any more of (ex-ligers, zonies and other animals SO WHATS THE POINT. please take this seriously because i love animals and global warming is not helping. im also a pet owner i have adopted many animals and i love them please dont hurt the very loved animals.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I have a Tabby Bobcat and he is a totally lovable lap-cat, he is much bigger than a regular cat. He has the striped orange colors but the body, bobbed tail and long legs of a Bobcat. I also have a Wolfdog, he is beautiful, very affectionate and huge, I was told he was an Australian Sheppard Mix, but he looks more like an Arctic Wolf, at 7 months old he is about 80 pounds and has 6 more month of growing.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Humans have been experimenting with the biodiversity of animals and hybridization for thousands of years. We have cross bred plants and animals that would help keep other humans alive. modern corn, for instance, is a hybrid of several kinds of wild veraties. also cows were bred from wild steer to be able to produce many kinds of meat. richer meat, leaner, or simply more of it. if you go by the bible (which as a pagan, i do not) the animals were put on this planet to serve man kind in any way we saw fit. so it is ok to produce hybrids. ii persoanlly see no harm in the practise so long as the animals are properly cared for and are not released into the wild as they could cause damage to the ecosystem their.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:54 am
These are so cool looking!? Um….is this healthy for the animals??