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Top 10 Hybrid Animals
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Our editors have created a list about the top 10 hybrid animals. Hybrid animals are cross-breds between animals of similar genetics. They mostly exist in captivity and are the result of human intervention. |
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10. Liger/Tigon
Though they are fascinating animals, they get the last of the list because they are the most popular known among the hybrids. Ligers are crossbreeds between a male lion while Tigons are crossbreds between a male tiger and a female lion. Ligers are the world’s largest cats. Tigons on the other hand, are prone towards dwarfism and are usually smaller than either of their parents. Male Ligers/Tigons are sterile while the females are often fertile. Below shows a liger and its trainer Dr. Bhagavan Antle at a Renaissance Festival in Massachusetts, USA, October 2005.
Futher Read: Truth Or Fiction
9. Wolf Dog
Dogs and wolves tend to crossbreed rather freely. The wolf is a shy animal depending on nuances in body language, facial expression and on hunting skills to survive. Their jaws are much stronger than those of a dog and are often used to exert dominance. For a dog wolf hybrid, it is not known when it will display a wolf behaviour or dog behaviour or something in between. Obedience training is a must in order to tame the animal.
Further Read: Dog’s Owner Guide
8. Iron Age Pig
Domestic Tamworth pigs are crossbred with wild boar to create ‘Iron Age Pigs’. The hybrids are tamer than wild boar but less tractable than domestic swine and generally become specialist pork sausages. Most of them are bred for the specialist meat trade.
Further Read: Wikipedia
7. Zebroid
A zorse is the result of crossbreeding a horse and a zebra. A zonkey is the result of crossbreeding a donkey with a zebra. The Zony is the result of crossbreeding a pony to a zebra. All these three are called zebroids - defined as a cross between a zebra and any other equid. Zebroids are preferred over zebra for practical uses such as riding because of its body shape. However it is more inclined to be temperamental and can prove to be difficult to handle.
Further Read: Green Apple, Wikipedia
6. Cama
A Cama is a hybrid between a camel and a llama. They are born via artificial insemination due to the huge difference in sizes of the animals which disallow natural breeding. A Cama usually has the short ears and long tails of a camel but the cloven hooves of a llama. Also most noticeably is the absence of the hump.
Further Read: Taylor Llamas, Wikipedia
5. Grolar, Pizzly
A grolar/pizzly hybrid is the product of a grizzly bear and a polar bear. Although the two bears are genetically similar, they tend to avoid each other in the wild. During 16 April 2006, a hybrid bear was shot dead by Jim Martell,a hunter from the United States, in Canada. It was the first time a hybrid was found in the wild where previous records of grolars or pizzlies have only been found in zoos.
Further Read: BBC News, Wikipedia
4. Leopon
A Leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard and a female lion. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the bodies carries similarities to leopards. The most successful breeding programme was at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan. Leopons are larger than leopards and likes to climb and enjoy water.
Further Read: Wikipedia
3. Hybrid Pheasant
The Golden Phesant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady Amherst’s Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors from its parents.
Further Read: Messy Beasts
2. Wolphin
A wolphin is a rare hybrid formed from a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. There are currently only two in captivity at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. A wolphin’s size, colour and shape are intermediate between the parent species. The first captive wolphin was Kekaimalu, which shows mixed heritage even in its teeth: bottlenose dolphins have 88, false killer whales have 44 and Kekaimalu has 66!
Further Read: Wikipedia
1. Ti-Liger, Ti-Tigon, Li-Tigon, Li-Liger
The top spot goes to ti-ligers/ti-tigon/li-tigons/li-ligers because it is a hybrid among the hybrids. It is a cross breed between a male tiger and a female liger/tigon or a male lion with a female tigon/liger. Do note that female ligers or tigons are fertile. They are extremely rare and are in mostly private ownership within a behavioural studies programme. In the case of ti-ligers, they have unusual striping where it breaks up and display a blotchy appearance. Since they are 3/4 tiger, their characteristics inhibit more of those of a tiger than a lion.
Further Read: Lair Web
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June 19th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Ok, the dog and the wolf are of the same species, so that’s strictly speaking not a hybrid, and it’s not very uncommon for them to breed at all.
Happens all the time in northern scandinavia, sweden, where I live.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Of course, the actual top animal isn’t listed; the mule. It is the most common hybrid, most useful hybrid on the planet, used for agriculture all over the world (even still in the US). Next to it is the henny (horse/jenny), again, a very common hybrid and still in common use for agriculture all over the world. Why were these two very common and useful animals excluded from your list? Seems like the list was made up by people who know very little about animals…
June 19th, 2006 at 11:20 am
mankind does not deserve to be caretaker of this planet.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Michael Bergkvist is wrong. Dogs and wolfs are not the same species. Per MS Encarta, there are two species of wolf, “gray, or timber, wolf is classified as Canis lupus. The red wolf is classified as Canis rufus.” Whereas a dog is classified as a Canis domesticus. Clearly, not the same species but the same family, Canidea.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Dude said:
“I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
Where do you think George Bush 2 came from?
June 19th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Jason is wrong and woefully out of date. Encarta is merely an encyclopedia, which is not a reliable source of up-to-date scientific knowledge. The various “species” of wolf are now all classified as subspecies of Canis lupus, and the domestic dog is now Canis lupus familiaris, the older classification has been deprecated. This reclassification was done in 1993 by the American Society of Mammologists and has been accepted, worldwide, by other mammalian taxonomists. Encarta is woefully out of date. Do not rely upon encyclopedias as sources of currently-valid scientific knowledge.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Re breeding humans and great apes: That was one of the things Hitler’s scientists attempted. No record of any successes have surfaced.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Michael Bergkvist is right. The domestic dog is Canis lupus familiaris, a sub-species of the grey wolf, Canis lupus.
Check Wikipedia or a 3rd grader’s biology book instead of Encarta.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Canis_lupus_familiaris.html
http://www.inetdesign.com/wolfdunn/wolfdogfaq/hybrids.html
June 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Saying Encarta isn’t accurate and then telling him to check Wikipedia?
Kettle : “Hi Pot, how are you today?”
Pot : “I can’t talk to you, you’re black!”
June 19th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Dave:
“Bergkvist is right. The domestic dog is Canis lupus familiaris, a sub-species of the grey wolf, Canis lupus. ”
I believe it’s a mistake to present the domestic dog as a subspecies of the gray wolf. In the Society’s reorganization of Canis, it also reclassified the wolf as two subspecies–C. l. nubilus, (timber wolf) and C. l. occidentalis (Mackenzie or Tundra wolf)–neither of which have greater standing than the domestic dog, C. l. familiaris. Yet , in common usage, it’s up to the individual as to how he cares to regard the entire species: one of wolves, the domestic dog being a form of wolf; or as one consisting of wolves and domestic dogs, much as we regard Ursus arctos as consisting of the Kodiak, grizzly, and brown bear.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Jason got owned.
June 19th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
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June 19th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
And I thought I was the greatest half breed….er … hybrid of all!
*ATOMIC WAIT out NOW!*
http://www.myspace.com/elrockwell
June 19th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I wonder if the scientists who make up those hybrids have kids.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Yeah Dusan, it’s sad.
Nevertheless, What a great list you got there Katana, i’m fascinated by your success and traffic O_o
A.H
June 19th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Thanks A.H.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
nice photoshop work
June 19th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
The images labelled grolar, pizzly on your page are actually polar-European brown bear, although the general type is representative of what a polar-grizzly would look like (since grizzlies are a type of brown bear). Photographer attribution (Sarah Hartwell) is required when using those images.
The image of the hybrid pheasant should also be attributed please. It is copyright Sarah Hartwell.
June 19th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
I have added the copyright Sarah, Thanks for letting us use the pictures. Your site http://www.messybeast.com has helped a lot in this article
June 19th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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June 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
They suspect a chimp, and even apes and humans are too genetically different to create a hybrid. There was one case where a scientist supposedly succeeded, but the hybrid died shortly after birth. But even this story has no proof this acctually happened. Check out “Humanzee”. They thought it was a cross breed, but dna proved otherwise. They found it was just a strange mutation that happened in the wild.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
“The liger is like my favorite animal. It’s strength is it’s magic”
June 19th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
I’m currently trying to create a cat-elephant hybrid - or Catephant as I intend to call it. I’m designing it to be able to do massive poos in my neighbour’s garden!
June 19th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I agree with Nico. When this happens in nature the result is almost always sterilization. It is natures way of controlling this thing. Enter man…and there are no limits.
I do know someone who has a coyote/dog mix. The animal was born in the wild but was domesticated.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Wolves and dogs are the same species, they are not a hybrid. You cannot differentiate them in any way, not even via a DNA test. However, through thousands of years of breeding humans have changed dog behavior significantly. You can keep a dog as a pet because they never “grow up”. Wolves do and that is what makes them a dangerous animal to keep.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
I’m a big fan of the owlbear. http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=322
Sorry, just wanted to liven it up a little. All very interesting animals. I am surprised there are mostly mammals here, with only one bird.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
How about the naturally occurring tiger-musky, half muskellunge and half northern pike?
Any fishermen out there to verify this?
June 20th, 2006 at 12:14 am
These animals are awesome. I did see one time an attempt to breed a cat with a rabbit. It was the most saddest thing I’d ever seen. The result was a cat with rabbit -like feet that couldn’t hop. So Sad
June 20th, 2006 at 12:23 am
This debate over the dog and wolf is silly. You can’t rely on taxonomists to determine genetic questions. Some taxonomists would say that a “species” includes any animals that can mate together, which would mean all of these examples are the same species. But others rely on looks or behavior.
Genetically, speciation takes place when two populations of a species are isolated and evolve separately. They may retain the ability to mate for a long time or lose that ability quickly — just a quirk of evolution. So llamas and camels, which have been separated for tens of millions of years, can mate, but other animals that are much closer cannot.
Dogs separated from wolves about 30,000 years ago. They are very different: dogs go into heat twice a year, wolves once; dogs exhibit “neotony” — traits that make them more docile — wolves obviously do not. Domestic pigs separated from wild boars more recently, so if dogs and wolves are the same species, then so are pigs and boars. Wolves can mate with dogs, but they can also mate with coyotes. Would anyone say wolves and coyotes are the same species?
In truth, “species” is a gradient, not a yes/no question. Wolves/dogs and humans/chimpanzees are at one end of the gradient; humans/trees or humans/bacteria at the other. It really is more semantics.
If this is supposed to be a list of fascinating or exotic hybrids, I don’t find wolves/dogs very exotic. But wolf-dog breedings were probably less common than we imagine. A malamute, for example, is genetically no closer to a wolf than a toy poodle. Sorry for the long comment.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:24 am
To answer Dude, yes there appears to have been a hybrid, he is known as Oliver the Humanzee !!!!
http://www.thelookmachine.com/weblog/2005/05/oliver-humanzee.html
June 20th, 2006 at 1:06 am
I don’t know about anyone else, but the Liger is pretty much my favorite animal — Napoleon Dynamite
June 20th, 2006 at 2:00 am
I dunno, a miniature tiger “like” breed sounds pretty cool too. Guard cat.
And thanks Randal for your comments. I’m not a scientist, but you made a lot of sense to me.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:34 am
To answer Dude, yes there appears to have been a hybrid, he is known as Oliver the Humanzee !!!!
——-x——-
There is no known evidence of a human/chimp hybrid. From that website it says: “Oliver is all chimp. 100%” Just kind of an ugly mutated one I guess.”
June 20th, 2006 at 3:43 am
Quote by Dat: “Wolves and dogs are the same species, they are not a hybrid. You cannot differentiate them in any way, not even via a DNA test.”
Not true.
Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D. in his. “Molecular evolution of the dog family†says
“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence.”
(http://www.fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.htm)
June 20th, 2006 at 3:44 am
These animals are awesome. I did see one time an attempt to breed a cat with a rabbit. It was the most saddest thing I’d ever seen. The result was a cat with rabbit -like feet that couldn’t hop. So Sad
That isn’t true. It was a mutated manx that people tried to pass off as a cabbit. Cabbits are highly admired in the Japanese Animation circuit cuz they’re so darned cute in Tenchi Muyo, but that whole story about trying to mate a rabbit and a cat is a hoax.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Randal: “Some taxonomists would say that a “species” includes any animals that can mate together, which would mean all of these examples are the same species. But others rely on looks or behavior.” When you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t make things up. No taxonomist today will tell you that “a ’species’ includes any animal that can mate together.” Worse yet, no taxonomist relies only (your implication) on “looks” or “behavior.”
June 20th, 2006 at 4:05 am
When are they going to make gryphons?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:06 am
I can’t believe no one has mentioned manbearpig! It’s droppings look like a bears…but more manpigish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig
June 20th, 2006 at 4:11 am
No mules…grrr…I agree, inexcuseable. The fact that “domesticated” pigs, when released into the wild, tend to revert in physical attributes and behavior to be completely indiscernable from “wild” pigs in a few short generations, is sort of overlooked. Dog/wolf crossbreeds (not hybrids) are common; I’ve even seen fox/dog crossbreeds. And yes, they do make lousy pets; takes several generations to breed out “wild” traits, which believe me is a shame for those of us who dream of one day owning a house lion (although can you imagine feeding the damn thing?). Fish hybrids are probably more common than people realize; physically, it’s a lot more likely to happen in an animal which, essentially, does all its breeding externally. But to defend taxonomy: the definition of species is not “any animals that can mate together;” but suggests that animals that can consistently produce viable (i.e. fertile) offspring are within the same species. Big difference. A sidenote to this is that only females ligers/tigons are fertile, which suggests a much more recent divergence than, say, humans and chimps.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:34 am
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Al Gore’s fearsome ManBearPig.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:40 am
would everyone just quit being a whiny bitch and just look at the pictures? i hate how every blog/article that allows commenting always results in people who are hell bent on being right.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:26 am
[...] Top 10 Hybrid Animals. A list of cross-breeding animals like the Liger (half Lion, half Tiger) or Cama (half camel, half llama). Makes you wonder what else you could cross-breed. Is there a limit to how genetically similar you have to be? Also some of the comments are kinda funny… [...]
June 20th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Ummm Oliver the humanzee was a chimpanzee. nothing more…. Check the DNA they did on him.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Ages ago, I was taught that the two animals were considered the same species if “if they can mate and the offspring is fertile.” So, not just mate — the product must be able to continue a line. The li-tigons, etc. belie this old rule. I’m just clarifying the outdated rule, not trying to assert it still applies.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Man the fish just got shafted in this article. You’d better not go swimming anytime soon …
There are bunch of manmade fish hybrids, and I suppose they are less interesting to people because it’s so easy to make them, just mix eggs and sperm in a bucket and you’re done. The Tiger Muskellunge, Tiger trout, Wiper, Saugeye, Splake Trout, and Cuttbow are examples.
Many of the coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes became extinct (theoretically) because their numbers became so low they were forced to breed with other coregonids, and hybridized with them until the larger gene pool just swallowed up all the genetic material for the extinct fish. I believe the process is called introgression, and it is a threat to many rare species.
Cool article. Somebody mentioned the neoteny of dogs as being “traits that make them more docile”. Neoteny refers to an animal which reaches adulthood (sexual viability) while retaining sub-adult characteristics. It has nothing to do with docility, although this is how neoteny is expressed in dogs. It’s a common evolutionary mechanism; the classic example is the Axolotl of Mexico, a salamander that remains an aquatic larva throughout it’s life, and never transforms into a terrestrial adult. It is controlled by the hormone thyroxin, and if given a Thyroxin injection. the axolotl will tranform into a bizarre adult salamander that does not exist in nature.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:48 am
I owned a stub-tailed cat that had bred back to its father and produced 3 stub-tailed kittens. One of those kittens didn’t even have a tail and her back curved down. She couldn’t walk properly or move her hind feet independently, so she hopped - literally.
She was a happy little kitten and got around quite well, so I kept her (she was also the tamest - these were wild cats I was feeding and taming). Unfortunately, she had another problem common to a tailless cat - a prolapse of the rectum and I had to put her down. But if you had seen her hopping, you would have sworn she was a cross of some kind!
June 20th, 2006 at 9:25 am
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June 20th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Interesting. But does not look true in some cases.
June 20th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
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June 20th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
O M G. Who Cares?
June 21st, 2006 at 12:29 am
i think that there should be a cross between a humpback and a grey whale. They can call it a grump whale or a grey hump whale, or h’ray whale/horay whale….totally sweeeeeet!
June 21st, 2006 at 3:51 am
Responding to dude who said
June 19, 2006 @ 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.
Yes, Dude, His name is George W. Bush, AKA Chimpus Maximus
June 21st, 2006 at 5:18 am
This is an apparent wild bird hybrid.
http://www.uplandjournal.com/html/features/hybridgrouse.html
June 21st, 2006 at 6:24 am
The zony is just too damn cute. The leopon gives reason to stick to your own kind. I think the cross-breeding would have been better left to Photoshop for that one.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:26 am
As a recent lab hybridization of two separate butterflie species (resulting in something very similar to a known, third butterfly species) shows, hybridization may be more common in the wild than scientists previously thought.
Hybridization can become important when a species is severely endangered. If there are no examples of one particular sex, the animal can be mated with near relatives. With extensive breeding, it may be possible to restore the species, or at least something nearly indistinguishable.
Yes, it would be better to not have to do this, but one does what one can.
For the record, a human ancestor after we split from the chimp ancestor did later breed for a time. Recent genetic tests have shown this hybridization occurred in our own deep ancestry.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
[...] Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nooo…it’s a ZONKEY !! Uit de comments opgevist: Top 10 Hybrid Animals. Het meest bizarre, qua naamgeving toch, zijn de zebroids. Ze zijn het resultaat van een geile zebra en een paard,ezel of pony. Respectievelijk zorse, zonky en zony
Of in het nederlands: zaard, zezel en zony… De fruitpap of the day award gaat naar een ietwat ongewone kandidaat, nl de slettige zebra’s, of ookwel de zletten. [...]
June 21st, 2006 at 4:46 pm
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOLPHIN!!! A false killer whale is not a whale, its just a dolphin thats bigger than normal. And they have found a HALF HUMAN HALF GORILLA in africa, its name was snowflake, it died a while ago of skin cancer, and that might be total BS i saw it on the net but it does look kind of human, and there was another case of a gorilla with pink skin and blue eyes, its name was daisy i think. And you people who dont believe in hybrids are stubborn fags. And there have been many reports of a cabbit but they are all false, there is a breed of cat that has a furry stubby tail that looks like a rabbits. And just in case you care, ligers are so huge because the size limitation genes in lions are in the female, and in tigers in the male, so ligers have no limitation genes so they never stop growing during there lives. Tigons have 2 size limitation genes so they are extra small.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
SSPIFFY: Dude said: “I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.” Where do you think George Bush 2 came from?
You’re wrong - GB2 was a “Cunker” - a cros between a c*nt and a w*nker.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Lots of great comments on this thread, and varying degrees of “expertise.” Regarding Dylan’s claim that Snowflake was half-human, well… although humans are a species of primate, we’re even farther apart from gorillas than we are from chimps, so a hu-rilla just ain’t gonna happen. Snowflake (and Daisy) was an albino. This happens about as frequently in the wild as it does among humans; but in the wild (or in a human culture that fears albinism) the albino usually gets killed by something early on, either by its own kind for looking different or by a predator who can spot it more easily. Among the big cats, they tend to survive, due to the fact that they’re top predators and usually take care of each other (they’re not as well-camouflaged, though). Dylan’s claim that the cabbit is a fake is correct, of course. However, attaching a sexual preference to those who stubbornly refuse to believe in hybrids is simply not good science and is quite rude — might want to watch it with those cultural stereotypes.
Randal and a few others brought up interesting points about the genetic differences between domestic dogs and wolves. However, he also mentions that some species either lose or retain the ability to mate with their “cousins” after diverging. Several have mentioned the ease with which fish hybrids can occur, and some have pointed out that some hybrids are sterile while others are not. It’s possible that defining a “species” is a bit like defining “intelligence.” We like to think that we know what we’re talking about; and within certain contexts we can form a frame of reference — that is, a working definition that works in that situation. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s obvious that we’re still figuring it out. Remember when we were taught about “pachyderms” in school? It took a very long time to remove that classification. They’re taking even longer to remove “race” from science class — another classification system based on hasty first impressions that in no way reflects the underlying facts.
DNA studies are a step in the right direction, but we are still a long way from figuring out how it all works. It’s possible that different-but-similar animals that can produce offspring could be considered sub-species of each other — but we have the puzzle of the liger/tigon in which males are sterile and females are fertile. For the purposes of classification, a new term may have to be coined to cover this interesting paradox. (Before reading this, I assumed that hybrids were generally sterile; the idea of gender-specific sterility within a hybrid group had not occurred to me.)
As for the zebra/other equine hybrids, I’m very surprised. I had heard that a “nearby” zoo has an animal of this sort (the person who told me of it couldn’t remember its name). I wondered if a group of quagga (thought to be extinct) had been found. But these photos, assuming they are genuine, definitely show hybrids. What surprises me is that it could happen at all. Zebras generally won’t mate in captivity; and when they do, they miscarry. An experiment was done about 10 years ago to increase the zebra population by using a mare as a surrogate mother for a zebra embryo. Getting the embryos wasn’t too difficult; but the mare’s body refused to recognize the embryos and kept rejecting them. The theory was that their DNA was similar enough that she SHOULD be able to carry a baby zebra to term, but different enough that her immune system saw it as a foreign object. Scientists in charge of the project resorted to sealing her in a “bubble” and shutting down her immune system. She carried the zebra to term. However, based on this, I would not have thought that a zebra/other equine hybrid was possible.
(Addendum: In addition to “morning sickness,” pregnant women often get quite ill during pregnancy, usually from bugs that hardly bother them ordinarily. I think the immune system is supposed to relax a bit to prevent miscarriage. This also benefits the foetus by “feeding” it a mild dose of antibodies — sort of a “starter kit” for its own immune system. I don’t know if a surrogate human mother needs to take pills for this or not; but the mare probably had no clue about what was happening, and neither did her body. Given this info, on further thought it seems likely that a naturally-occurring pregnancy from a union between a zebra and another equine might give the mother’s body a chance to go into “pregnancy mode” and carry the zebroid baby to term. Since other equines can deal with captivity better than zebras, the offspring might do just fine.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Nicholas Dollak, u just got the award of longest comment on this blog
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 am
this is weird
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:10 am
DanDan….were you successful with your catephant? I would like to have one also to take care of my own neighbour.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:37 am
Please don’t try any of the following:
Kittiger - cat and tiger via artificial insemination
Hummingbee
Turtlecockroach
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:07 am
oh, people. The Jack-a-lope!
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
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June 22nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
There have been no proven cases of human-chimp hybride, however this makes you wonder…
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa022800a.htm
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:21 pm
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June 22nd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
mule, where art thou?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:45 pm
I think a question that we’re all ignoring is this: who would win in a fight between a liger and a polar bear?
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:07 pm
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
These animals are soo cool! I want one for christmas
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:42 am
Napoleon Dynomite was right, Ligers do exist! So do Zebroids and Camas…
Chalk one up for “Napoleon Dynomite”, “Ligers“are real:
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 am
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June 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
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June 23rd, 2006 at 1:36 am
Human x Monkey = Liam gallagher of Oasis!
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:19 am
mtDNA is mitochondrial DNA & is distinct from nuclear DNA. mtDNA codes only for the proteins of the mitochondrion, the cell organelle responsible for oxidative phosphorylation, & plays no role in heredity other than this. mtDNA is derived only from the ovum & is used in forensic DNA fingerprinting.
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 am
“I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
of course it has. he’s in the whitehouse.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:17 am
get down with hybrids yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:20 am
Has anyone ever heard of a hybrid from 2 different generas? Ive pointed out theres no such thing as a Wolphin. IF you have please post it….
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I’M ASHAMED OF BEING HUMAN.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Dr. Wallkin,
It’s not completely true that mtDNA is derived strictly from the ovum. Sperm contain some mitochondria, and its mitochondria are not always discarded. Given the overwhelming numbers of mitochondria in the egg vs. the sperm, and the rare nature of the survival of the sperm mitochondria, this is usually inconsequential.
Defects in oovum mtDNA mild enough to permit survival of the embryo yet strong enough to affect mitochondrial population diynamics could cause this to be a significant effect under some unusual conditions.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Are you all American…?
June 24th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Small Onion,
I’m not. I made 6th man on my cross-country team in college, but I was nowhere near All-American.
We don’t ever want to discuss my single attempt at the pole vault, nor the intramural basketball team I coached and played on….
June 24th, 2006 at 3:45 am
Actually, all dolphins are whales. This includes pseudorcas (false killer whales), orcas and bottle nose dolphins.
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WOLPHIN!!! A false killer whale is not a whale, its just a dolphin thats bigger than normal”
June 24th, 2006 at 5:18 am
whats that??
a liger.
whats a liger??
its prettymuch my favorite animal
its a mix between a tiger and lion
June 24th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Thanks for the great info on Ligers! Here is a site with some cool baby liger pics: http://www.liger.org
TT
June 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
ok yes absolutely
June 25th, 2006 at 4:03 am
[...] so i saw this article on the top 10 hybrid animals and found it quite interesting. Its not the usual funny stuff on here but bleh, fuck all around on the internet these days
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June 25th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
I agree with Mei
I can’t believe you people find this stuff “cool” and “awesome”, arguing if wolf and dog are same species.. Lion head and tiger stripes?? Is it worth of doing it?? Only in America!! If i was American, I’d be double-ashamed. Only Bush and his politics can be more stupid like this kinda experimenting. Yeah letz rule the world and go fuck with chimpanzes, COOOL! Or better letz do it with all animal species and maybe we’ll find out where are we comming from. Some would love to have these “products” at home like pets?!?! WTF? Why?? Have tiger. Have lion!! Aren’t they beautiful and stunning enough already?? I think at the moment, this kind of engeneering is ridiciolus - however when someone we’ll start messing up with human genom, we can all start to pray. We can only ask ourselves, what’s going on in some sh*** laboratories with a bunch of crazy scientist playing role of God. Oh right, it’s for better world, growing human arms on rabbits or ears on mices …Sure. For how long and for who?? Same story is how the pharm companies help resolving AIDS problem in africa. I won’t even start with USA and their war on terror. No, WTC didn’t fall becouse plain crashed into it, there are MANY powerfull evidences that there were multiple bombs exploding, dear god … Someone was buying put options on Boing just days before and got wealthy! Other had to hide some ugly “evidences”. Then someone took all camera shots around the pentagon just before 747 hit it?? Right. It just fits in hole. Someone had scissors in hand. Others “just” lost their famillies, loved ones. And NO, Bush isn’t searcing for weapons of mass destruction. DING?! Try listen to some retired afgan “veterans” (at age 21) who had problems with killing innocent fammilies, women, babies.. STupid stupid stupid! Thank god I’m living in a paradise country some could just dream about..
Does really noone (except few here) doesn’t see the point?? Where are we running??
At the end of all, we’ll get what we deserve. For sure.
Spelling isn’t the best, so what. English isn’t my first, neither second, not even third spoken language. I don’t give a sh**. With comments like this and blindness i see, I can only p…
June 26th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Just read all these posts; and I was just about to say all that KJ has.
Yay for the similar words ‘mankind does not deserve to be caretaker of this planet.’ & ‘I’M ASHAMED OF BEING HUMAN.’
My sentiments exactly.
As for the ‘natural’ cross-breeding info, what nature can and can’t do and what we’ve done to it so far, has been great; you learn something new everyday.
(BTW Small Onion, Australia here)
June 26th, 2006 at 10:19 am
KJ, get over yourself. I don’t hear anything about the hybridization of flowers in your rant, but I suppose that you don’t think that plants that are hybridized are “shameful.” By the way there’s an old saying: you have two ears and one mouth, listen twice as much as you talk.
June 26th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Many moons ago I dreamed of some hybrid animals. I would like to see some of them made. Can you make them for me?
http://www.nible.com/thezoo/thezoo.htm
Particularly TurkeyPig.
June 27th, 2006 at 4:00 am
Does this explain the Bush twins?
June 27th, 2006 at 7:59 am
Cobalt:
I find plants same as animals. We are all made of dust. Appereance of flower is kinda different on this planet, don’t you think? So the issue is different. Right? I bet(hope) you can see it.. Don’t go on attacking me if you have conflicts with my statements and better have some good arguments.
Btw I am realy good listener and also have an old saying: Don’t judge book by it’s cover. And another one: Don’t go playing god. Better play with your kids. Now YOU try find one for this post. Not for me.
I even don’t know what you stand for..
killQUOTE: Nothing more needs to be explained (as long as I am concerned) in a metter of “Bush” twins. I’m only surprised by blindness of MANY on that - and this perticular case.
Peace.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Bush is a mix between God and man
June 27th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
People are f*ck*d up! Why can’t we just leave animals alone. Why are we always trying to play God? And I love how this rare breed of bear was killed by a hunter. So typical Humans Suck!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:51 am
I can’t believe no one has mentioned crossing a Bulldog and a Shih-tzu to get a Bull-shit! (Yes, I freakin’ know that both the Bulldog and the Shih-tzu are canis lupis familarius, and so not a different species and therefore not a hybrid. Thank you for noticing).
June 28th, 2006 at 2:57 am
[...] Não é só na polÃtica que aparecem animais exóticos. A manipulação da procriação para o cruzamento de espécies (hibridização) produziu alguns bichos bem esquisitos como, pasmem, o Ligre (Tigre+Leão) e o Cama (Camelo+Lhama). [...]
June 28th, 2006 at 4:28 am
I tried creating a dog and human hybrid. I dont think my do was to happy, but I enjoyed trying to make it.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
[...] Top 10 Hybrid Animals Related Entries No related posts [...]
June 29th, 2006 at 4:15 am
“Bush is a mix between God and man”
QFT
-its retarded to argue over what species are. there have been many standards over the years, all of them fuzzy, and its still that way. a wolf is not a (domestic) dog, nor vice versa: works for me.
-i don’t get what the mtdna stuff people were commenting on was about. mtdna can be used to estimate how long ago species diverged. not a lot more needs to be said.
-to KJ: hybrid animals are made around the world. ligers were made since pre-wwII. the liger in those pictures was actually accidentally made. you’re pretty much just showing that your country is just the jealous piece of crap we all know it is. also, what is WRONG with making a liger? Should the accidently made ones be put down because “god” didn’t make it? I guess you don’t much like dogs then, or cats, you wouldn’t own one i mean. Wouldn’t drink milk or eat beef. Or ride horses. or eat pork. no fur coats. These are all animals that we’ve messed with. we do it all the time. you think getting a shih-tzu from a wolf is fine but make a liger and we’re all going to hell. Grade A moran.
I like the grolar the best btw.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Great pictures - the ti-tigon looks really strange
June 29th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
ass
June 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Oh dear… it seems the blog has found a conspiracy theorist! KJ, you forgot to mention that the KGB were behind the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, the Polish Mafia orchestrated the sinking of the Titanic and the Bush Administration caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
A little open-mindedness goes a long way; Would you, for instance, be so offended by the use of mules as beasts of burden? Without these particular hybrids, many farmers through history would’ve starved. How about hybridising different breeds of corn, rice and wheat to make hardier crops so as to withstand harsher climates? Does bouncegirl find this offensive? Also, with consideration given to the argument of where a breed ends and a species begins, could one define people of different ethnic origins as different species? If so, does the idea of marriage and copulation between races make you “Ashamed to be human” Mei?
People breeding such hybrids are generally not trying to play God, but simply trying to further understand the genetic curiosities of life given to us in the world He made for us.
By the way, the “chimp and human hybrid in the Whitehouse” and Napoleon Dynamite jokes are getting old.
Hope I haven’t actually offended anyone, and I recon the liger would beat a polar bear in a fight hands down, although, it probably depends on whose home climate they were in during that fight. I don’t know how a liger would stand up to the weather in the arctic circle.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:50 am
[...] 1. Ligers, Leopons, and Pizzlies. Oh MY! Yes Ligers are real. Gosh! But so are Zonies, Zonkies, and Cama’s. No seriously. Here’s a list of the top ten Hybrid Animals. Cool. [...]
June 30th, 2006 at 3:10 am
what the hell is going on on this planet. nature has her or its ways of handling things. even in crossbreeding. why must we interfere in the stuff we normal don’t care. oh sure it’s a scientific breakthrough. hey i got an idea why not crossbreed a human and a oh well so many species. we can choose. oh yeah almost forgot. humans have nothin else in mind but to tinker with stuff until they break (i’m in it too, don’t worry) why not try to make the world a better place. not for you, not for me: but for the Whole planet: remember TERRA.
until then…
July 4th, 2006 at 8:41 am
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July 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am
KJ:
We people find it ‘cool’ and ‘awesome’ to argue because it’s contructive. Evolution depends on communication. Often the animals with the highest rate of survival have the best communication skills (eg humans). I think you even answered your own sarcasm, “Or better letz do it with all animal species and maybe we’ll find out where are we comming from.” Well, that’s pretty much what’s trying to be done, to understand genetics and stuff better. Everyone has different opinions, and some people think that particular hybrids are more beautiful and stunning than non-hybrids. Who are you to dictate personal preference? Don’t bring religion into this debate, you have absolutely no proof that god exists whatsoever. You might retaliate with monuments, buildings, bibles etc. All of these are man-made, so get over it.
I bet you’d change your mind if you had a health problem, like a heart disease. I bet you wouldn’t mind having a heart transplant from a pig to survive then.
If you don’t want to cure AIDS, then get the f*ck out of the way for someone who does.
Why are you bringing 9/11 into this debate? Why? It has NOTHING to do with the topic.
I like how you don’t mention which country you live in, because there’s very few countries that can be described as ‘paradise’. Every country has murderers, rapists, pedophiles, con artists, drug dealers etc. Adn what’s worse is that every country has some ridiculous religious zealots like you that use some imaginary friend as a mental security blanket named “god” to justify everything they do.
July 6th, 2006 at 4:04 am
“dude said
June 19, 2006 @ 10:52 am
I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~chloraform/bush-chimp.jpg[/img]
http://home.comcast.net/~chloraform/bush-chimp.jpg
Only one known of.
July 6th, 2006 at 6:24 am
This is what you get when inbreds rule the Earth!
If it happens naturally then let it happen don’t f*ck with it!
I don’t care if you belive in a GOD or not! look at all the shit we’ve caused pollution that’s killing us and the Earth just because it was it was seen as making things better and easier for us humans! Look at all the new diseases were making instead of curing the ol’ ones! Do we really need to be f*ckin around with poor defenless animals that have no choice or say in the matter????
July 6th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Everyday I see somthing else that makes me ashamed to be human. But at least I have my good concience, knowing that I have no part in this.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Bubbles:
Cheer up, emo kid.
July 7th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I believe everyone is forgetting the most important hybrid of all….the day walker (could also be known as humpire or vaman, half vampire half human).
July 8th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
otro vivo reflejo de la estupides humana…
This Suck
July 9th, 2006 at 7:47 am
KJ: Get over yourself. You are not the world’s moral police so back off Nature and humans have both been modifying living things pretty much forever.
Wolves and dogs are the same species, the best estimate for humans domesticating dogs is between 17,000 and 14,000 years ago which is no where near long enough for them to be different species. The math is pretty straight forward that’s roughly between 8,500 and 2,800 generations of domestic dogs (depending on what you consider a generation I went with 2 years for the minimum and 5 for the maximum), in evolutionary terms that’s a very short period of time.
Nicholas Dollak: You’re assumption about other equids not being able to carry zebra hybrids to term has a big flaw in it. When the attempt was made to use a horse as a surrogate it was a 100% zebra, genetically far too different for the horse’s body to accept (by the way sometimes women who are surrogate mothers for infertile couples have the same problem and that is within our own species). Now if a horse/pony/donkey is carrying a hybrid between themselves and a zebra, half the dna is going to be the mothers, that would significantly decrease the likelyhood that the mother’s body would reject the fetus.
About female ligers and tigons being fertile, that actually isn’t too surprising in the world of hybrids. Even a small handful of female mules have been fertile (it’s very rare but it happens). Since females get their genes for sexual reproductions from both parents and males only from one parent, that may explain why hybrid males are not fertile but females sometimes are. The male genes from the father are incompatible with the genes inherited from the mother, but for the female having a copy from each parent the genes mesh better. This is also why there are many genetic problems that show up only in males but not females, females have doubles of specifically female genes so if one is defective the other is typically dominant but with males there is no second copy of the gene to pick up the slack
July 10th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Hmm, this is interesting stuff indeed.
P.S. - Dear lord you’re a moron KJ.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:41 am
If some of you are ashamed about being human, why not do something about it. You could always find a tall building and not be a human anymore. Or maybe you’d be a human/sidewalk hybrid….a humalk, if you will.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:14 am
Cool!
July 13th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
fantastic!! can u add something regarding human chimp breeding??
July 17th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
You’re all crackers!! KJ is passionate about his/her point….just not particularly good at articulating it. Cobalt and Kevin…you are just ignorant and rude, but frankly I wouldn’t expect anything more. You shouldn’t shout someone down just because they have differing views to you. Unfortunately, it seems a common trait of you and your apparent countrymen, so I guess you can’t really be condemned for your blinkered, bigoted, uneducated view of life.
July 17th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
You’re all crackers!! KJ is passionate about his/her point….just not particularly good at articulating it. Cobalt and Kevin…you are just ignorant and rude, but frankly I wouldn’t expect anything more. You shouldn’t shout someone down just because they have differing views to you. Unfortunately, it seems a common trait of you and your apparent countrymen, so I guess you can’t really be condemned for your blinkered, bigoted, uneducated view of life…
July 28th, 2006 at 5:34 am
kschlenker said: Seems like the list was made up by people who know very little about animals…
Seems like the list was made up full stop!
I’ve got a faint memory from my school days, specifically biology class: I seem to remember that the gender of the offspring is wholly due to the sperm as the ova carry only female genes but the sperm can carry male or female genes. As the male gene is dominant, an ovum fertilised by a male sperm results in a male embryo. Obviously, an ovum fertilised by a female sperm results in a female embryo.
If this is the case, why does the “Leopon” (result of breeding a male leopard and a female lion) have a mane? Surely that is a male trait which would not be carried in the female lion ova?
July 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
The pigs, wolfdogs, etc are all the same species. Nothing amazing there unless you’ve never seen a dog or pig before. The cat hybrids and wolphin (and I assume zebroid and camel-llama) are different species because even though they can produce offspring, those offspring are infertile (either in 1 or both sexes). The bear hybrid brings up an interesting point in that two animals deemed separate species appear to be able to mate sucessfully. This means that grizzly and polar bears are more like different ‘races’ or ‘breeds’ of the same species. Altered by geographic isolation.
And about Oliver the Humanzee, DNA testing showed he is a chimp with a genetic condition making him rather bald. However his skin is now much darker and he appears far more chimplike (he is still alive, just looks like an old chimp). He spawned one of my favourite urban legends though, gotta love him.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Listen, it it clearly stated by all scientists that humans cannot breed with any type of primape their dna is 98% the same as humans but that two percent is what makes it impossible for us to reproduce with them (otherwise id be makin ape babies). All of the above animals are in a same family and hunmans are one advanced race that has ;Persay, no family amoung other animals, plus this site says at the bottom “Modified Theme By Beccary”…..beccary….ring a bell….. becary probably means beckham…..David Beckham made these animals then. Man am i a genius the unscrample that.
July 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am
The guy who wrote the comment above mine (Coolfartsdufe) really
knows what he’s talking about.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:25 am
You know, I don’t believe in messing with nature. I think it’s wrong. These creatures are amazing, but NOT what God intended or they would have already been here. I think we are doing too much. All these efforts could be used where needed, not making up stuff to occupy time and destort already beautiful animals.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
YO I AGREE I LOOOVE ALL ANIMSLS HOLLA AT A GURLS PAGE
August 10th, 2006 at 1:13 am
YO a skunk and a raccon mix’d where i used 2 live that was spryin some stinky stuff every day n stealin all the shirts of the dry line any way i got a half kusky half german S so in my mind hybrids is dumb cool
why not mix a great white n a tiger sharke that be PIFF
August 16th, 2006 at 10:28 am
where is the flying pigs???????????????
August 16th, 2006 at 10:29 am
where are the jonny haans?
August 16th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
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August 20th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
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August 24th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
To anyone that says ‘who are we to play with DNA?! it’s against God!’ i say to you:
‘Shut your preach-hole, you arrogant ass!’
How do you know what God wants? Does he tell you over coffee in the morning while scratching his backside, in his boxers? it’s pompous and presumptious of YOU or ANYONE to speak for GOD. You are not God’s personal press secretary, so get over yourself and keep the moral high ground to your personal life. Something as awesome as gene-splicing / stem cell research / DNA Hybridization could be the first step to us finally evolving out of the dark ages where we still bitch and moan, kill each over over something as petty as ‘religion’. It can lead to greater technologies that will propel us years technologically (probably to at least where we aught to be right now). An end to cancer? Childhood Diabetes and Leukemia? Aids? You don’t think God wants us to evolve and triumph over these things? You had better be pretty sure of yourself before you make such an assumption with such certainty.
If God created us in ‘his image’, would we not be best to create as he has done?
I don’t understand the reasoning of religious people anymore. Their lives must be very trite, boring, uninspired, meaningless and hopeless. It’s O.K. to kill people of other religions because it’s ‘In the name of God’… but it’s not O.K. to create?
/me takes 4 asprin.
August 28th, 2006 at 3:51 am
back to the whole argueing of the wolf dog being a hybird or not. So wolfs and dogs are technically the same species in the same family. The family canis, but then again lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars are in the same base family and basically cousins so does that really make them hybirds? And can we technically classify anything in a species of it’s anyhow in the first place due to science is just a bunch of opinions in the first place hence forthe the word “theory” in most things.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:48 am
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September 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 am
i luv this site make more hybrids. Do best 20 hybrids u
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:47 am
i luv ur site make mor u peeps lololol lmao
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 am
i luv u
September 5th, 2006 at 1:51 am
What happens if you breed a mule with a donkey? Do you get a monkey?
September 9th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Is it possible to breed a human with a dog or a horse?
September 16th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
The ever-popular “geep” is conspicuosly left off of this list.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:13 am
they should get hobbs
September 21st, 2006 at 9:35 pm
[...] Hercules, the Liger stands at 10 feet on his hind legs and weighs 900 pounds. A liger is the largest cat of all the cat species. For more hybrid animals you can check out ‘Top 10 Hybrid Animals’. 1 videoclip after the jump. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:01 am
this is intense. you people really like to argue don’t you? i’m not complaining i like reading this stuff. very entertaining. just take it easy, kay? btw carbon, you made a very good point there. g’job
September 24th, 2006 at 3:08 am
i think that zony is really cute
September 27th, 2006 at 9:17 am
I thank you for this web site! It helped me a LOT in my science project in 5th grade! You all did an awesome job!!! I love the Leopon! It is SO cute!
September 27th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
….woah…i think the lepeon looks freaky!!
September 27th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
…..and by the way…this site really helped me too! thanks!
September 28th, 2006 at 7:44 am
i thank you for this website!!it helped me a lot in my hybrid science project!!
September 28th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
first off the liger is the most famous and coommon hybrid and second the wolf and the dog are not the same that is wjy they don’t have the same name. also if they where than that creature would look like a wolf or a dog. if you do not no what you are talking about than don’t post and save us the time of reading you made up fantasies.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
nice
September 29th, 2006 at 8:18 am
i love this website!!
September 29th, 2006 at 8:19 am
cool!!
September 29th, 2006 at 8:43 am
i love the leopon!
September 30th, 2006 at 5:56 am
i think that the hybrids will make a success in my science project!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:16 am
They are at again wht whiteman playing god…its going to come back and bite you in the ass
October 10th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I’m assuming we’re all going to be taken over by some faction of Liger’s as a result of what we’ve done.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:59 am
Why doesn’t somebody tell me how much I suck for being white and American? Hey then maybe you can call ME racist. Cause you know, I live on a continent that everybody hates- therefore making me- an asshole. Yep, I totally forced those scienctists to breed those animals-oh, and I voted for Bush too- OH! And I talk in a southern accent and scratch my ass going “Hee-yuck!” and “Dang that there on strange lookin’ critters”. Wow. I didn’t mean to rant that much. Oh well. Nice learning about hybrids and people’s opinions on the morality of it as well as the biological side of it. Thanks for putting it up.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:34 am
I want that me send photos to me mesenger for meet more of it animals
To me like it type of things and thanks!!!
October 13th, 2006 at 6:47 am
who invent this? this creation is cool and is incredibe very good!
October 14th, 2006 at 1:25 am
I think this is a freak of nature that shouldnt be messed with …. look at what people are doing to our animal kingdon..and for what our own selfish entertainment….
grow up!!!
a dolphin and a killer whale.. i mean my god… how un natural you wouldnt find them mating in the wild.. for what purpose is it to experiment this way..
i sooo disagree with this
October 14th, 2006 at 5:35 am
i fucked a horse once and i made a minataur
October 16th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
this is for real man?
you see the danger that in one day due to the genetic research
it might appear dangerous species that i don’t want to talk about!
but the danger still exist!
October 30th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
R Lepeons more lion or leopard??!!
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:20 am
im elliosh. i touch ape before. is that woulb be cross breading? his willy. also, i “skimmed” (looked at fast) at reviews. retarded this is fake. pictures like mj’s nose. fake to the 10 degree. many people are gulable here, omg lol. that funny that peeps (people) will beleive the shit. you got to open your eyes like a prostitute’s legs. come on. has you all even glanced at this animals in real? if you have, me elliosh would like to know, so then i may now and cross breed some more. my favorite is pea-beginie, even if its fake, it is. omg . say gullable 3 times fast and it sounds like ballon.
omg guess u believe this site. omg. hope mankind is goin survive. cross bread happily.
elliosh
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:01 pm
wow thts a big 1 lol!
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:52 am
hi me bolbie i think animal hybrid good i like the wolf dog and ti liger
November 6th, 2006 at 3:03 am
These animals are amazing. This can provide us with great insite into genetics. To understand how the master genes are affected through the cross of the two species. I hope to see more breakthroughs on the crosses of felines.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:57 am
They should cross a bobcat with a cougar
November 9th, 2006 at 6:41 am
U know for all u whinerers…in the bible it says to keep breeding animals and we are doing that so shut up ok…plus i think there pretty and the more u make the more animals we will have
November 10th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
roflmao they look so different to normal ones don’t they…… but they’re cute
November 11th, 2006 at 2:19 am
all peeps retarded. no such things as cross breed. when i mate wich my dog, nothing came out. why would work with animal. poop out animal? i touch apes papercut willy, no child born. explain munch ccrunch.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I crossed a donkey and a monkey in my biology lab in college. I was going to name it
a “mon-key”. Although “don-key” might have been just as suitable.
November 14th, 2006 at 3:14 am
I think that ur all abit gone in the head!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:32 am
i think u should keep on making more of these funny but facinating creatures. my fav is the ZONY!!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:37 am
i just lut the heck out of that ZONY!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:42 am
I THINK U ALL ARE SO COOL BUT JUST STOP DOING THIS TO THE CREATURES OF THE WORLD. IT IS SO WRONG WHAT U DID 2 THESE POOR THINGS
PS THAT LEOPED OR WHAT LOOKS AS A FREAKALEEK!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 9:17 am
i dont get any of this, when i fuck my dog i dont get pregnant with mutan babys! how are all these animals made
November 16th, 2006 at 4:30 am
If you people who breed these these animals and love them so much relized what happens to them you wouldn’t think it was so pretty. Ligers, tigons and ti tigons and all the others, never stop growing. They get to the point were there body is so big that there heart can’t pump blood any more. The lucky one die qiuckly of a heart attack…but the unlucky suffer severe brain damage and enurizm. Not only do they have heart problems but most end up as side show freaks and suffer a horrible life in tiny cages. Yeah god said to keep breeding animals but not like this.. this is terrible. Would you breed with a monkey.. no I don’t think so ..why because its wrong. and so is this it needs to be stop…if they were ment to breed it would go on in the wild. Does it..no it doesn’t because it isn’t supposed to happen. and don’t try and tell me o its just evolution we are helping out.. for those commenter maybe you need to go back to science class and study evolution.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Nico WAY Up There Is Right. “Mankind does not deserve to be the caretaker of this planet”.
November 19th, 2006 at 6:45 am
breed a garaiff and a hippo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 21st, 2006 at 1:18 pm
[...] Yes, like horses (chromosome number 64) and donkeys (chromosome number 62), or lions (38) and tigers (38). Hybrids are possible between closely related species — here is a cool list of documented hybrids at Wikipedia. My favorite: the wolphin, a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale. Here’s a top ten hybrid list, with cool pictures. [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Ahhh, glorifying crossbreads and hybrids, mixing species and races has given us such lovely animals as the killer bee and pitbull. And no where its mentioned that tigons get tumors and die after a few years (ligons do not as far as i know) but let us as humans not fuck with nature unless it does it naturally. Interesting that some consider wolfs and dogs to be the same species, granted verey little seperates them geneticly but there are many differenses when it comes to behaviours, as dogs are polygamouse, wolfs monogamouse, (bet thats the explanation to why wolfs in many ways are so supperior eg 30% more brainconnections).
November 26th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
I think this is cool but so ****en stupid. I think Genevieve is right humans do suck….sometimes, I think we should leave God’s creatures’ alone and keep what we do have.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I’m not saying whether I think this is right or wrong, but its natural for humans to explore and test knowledge- part of which is genetics.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:46 am
I’m normally not this harsh, but here, I’ll state myself frankly. If these nay-sayers haven’t noticed, humans are at the top of the ladder on everything-that’s why we’re experimenting on monkeys and not monkeys on us. Quite honestly we, as humans, can do whatever we want to do with genetics. I don’t care if it’s moral or immoral. For lack of a better term, we won the battle (of evolution/genetics) we can do whatever we want-who are animals to stop us?
November 29th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
I’m not well versed in the field of genetics though I’ve got a burning question on same issue. Here in Kenya there have been reports of stray male dogs mating with female pigs viz the case in July 2004 where a Mayor in Nyahururu town, Central Kenya ordered the shooting on sight all loitering dogs and pigs after mating openly in broad daylight. Just recently in my home town of Eldoret I witnessed a dozen male dogs mating in turns with a female pig that was certainly on heat. People of genetics can you please answer me. Is it possible that the pig’s offspring will have some percentage of dogs in it? I don’t eat pork or pork related products but I’m perturbed on account of those whose diet is centered on this Hotdogs meats. Someone answer me through ramadhaan@hotmail.com
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:08 am
I think what people are doing with cross breeding animals is sick. Leave nature alone.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:04 pm
thats just the way humans are. selfish beasts that do sick stuff to satisfy their curiosity. imagine what if one day the scientists uses you to breed with some chimpanzee? like what samantha said, if all these are meant to happen, it will naturally in the wild. but it doesn’t, does it?
December 4th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
you are correct the homonid is selfish, it as a species does sick things and most of theme have an undying thirst to fulfill their curiosity. but i really like tigers, there sex. this is why on behalf of all the other lions i say more tiger lovin.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:08 am
pig and elephant DNA just won’t splice
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
you are all so gay it hurts me to think how we have evolved to what we are today.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
you guys have way too much time on your hands. im only reading this stuff cause i was bored in class. but just for the sake of arguement. wolfs and dogs are basiclly the same species with minor changes. and there IS no record of a human chimp hybrid because one if there was the world isn’t ready for it so they woudn’t tell us, and two i highly doubt, even thought they are our “closest relatives to the animal world”, that a chimps DNA and our DNA is not close enough.
ANd YES LIGERS RULE
December 14th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
10. Liger/Tigon
Though they are fascinating animals, they get the last of the list because they are the most popular known among the hybrids. Ligers are crossbreeds between a male lion while Tigons are crossbreds between a male tiger and a female lion. Ligers are the world’s largest cats. Tigons on the other hand, are prone towards dwarfism and are usually smaller than either of their parents. Male Ligers/Tigons are sterile while the females are often fertile. Below shows a liger and its trainer Dr. Bhagavan Antle at a Renaissance Festival in Massachusetts, USA, October 2005.
THE LIGER IS PRETTY MUCH MY FAVORITE ANIMAL. PREFERRED FOR ITS SKILLS AND MAGIC
December 14th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
The cross-breeding of species through human influence is wrong in the case of using them as pets. Too many people take them, thinking it is cool, and then up shoving them into someone else’s care because they were stupid. Also, about the whole canis Lupus adn Canis rufus deal, they all have the same gensus, which means they have the same amount of cromosomes so they can breed. Also, the Mule has been found to be fertile. I do not remember the year but there was a mule off spring by the name of Blue Moon that was the product of a male and female mule breeding.
Hybrids should only be made in order to help certain regions of the world. I also believe that harmful wildlife such as hogs, and hoses in Austrailia should be removed completely, for the reason that they destroy the land, and the food scources of other native animals. That is my comment. Take it for what you will. FYI, it is impossible to cross breed a human and an ape for the fact that they do not have the same amount of chromosomes.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Well….All of these are real…except the Ti-Liger and the other three, simply because, hybrids are usually sterile.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
sarah has some good points, but i don’t think that hogs and hoses should be removed and/or destroyed just because they “destroy” the envirorment they are animals just the same and were put here to do something with their lives
December 17th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
hybrids, my ass. what the fuck are you dickheads thinkin’ about! go do somethin’ to help the world, if your bored! leave the damn animals alone.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:48 am
If god had a problem with people mixing the DNA of animals then he would do something about it. What i think is intersting is the thought of people eventually being able to extract certain DNA traits and combing them to create completly new species like putting the wing DNA into a human to make people fly. Yeh, go do that sientists, and be quick about it, im sick of walking to the shops.
December 19th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
actually the thought of taking traits from animals is not at all far fetched. and we ever think about space travel we will need to do that. scientist are already tring it
December 20th, 2006 at 12:12 am
THis is creul but cool
December 20th, 2006 at 4:18 am
what “wow” said is damn right!
December 20th, 2006 at 4:21 am
stop leaving such damn long comments! it’s boring the hell outta me!
December 20th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Way too many idiots here.
Also way up there, Tigons aren’t really small. They reach normal plus tiger size.
Also Human/Chimps are similar and in theory could reproduce, or at least Humans and the one rare subspecies (The one Oliver was) could as Oliver did mount the one lady.
Also In theory, alot can be accomplished through hyrbidization and creating chimeras, but getting hybrids to take are really hard.
Also laughs at all the idiots who think photoshop was used on any of those pictures.
Also Humans & Dogs can have sex, but can’t produce a hybrid, they could make a chimera though, it probably wouldn’t live.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:52 am
know-it-all. talking about Maharajah.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:41 am
“stop leaving such damn long comments! it’s boring the hell outta me!”
DONT READ IT THEN!….jeez…
December 21st, 2006 at 8:16 am
They are so cute!
December 21st, 2006 at 10:37 am
and what the fuck are u doing, “respons to killer”? damn, can’t even spell right!
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:47 pm
how to they get them to mate?
i thought they would have killed each other lol
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:40 pm
i love animals
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:44 am
the pictuers are cool!
December 24th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
i mean the tiger and lion would kill each other rather than mate with each other wouldnt they?
December 28th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
They have put a lion and tiger in the same pen before because they thought that nothing would happen, but far from killing each other they created some of the first ligars ever bred in captivity
December 28th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
I once crossed an elephant with a pigeon. Subsequently, umbrella sales saw a record high.
December 30th, 2006 at 3:43 am
Humans have been crossing genetics for their own purposes for years: dog breeds. Yes, I know separate dog breeds are much closer than say a lion and a tiger, but its the same principle of humans manipulating genetics. Its the way it is because we “won” in evolution and are now the major species. Honestly, we can do whatever we want-who are animals to stop us?
January 7th, 2007 at 10:20 am
dam right vincent, if they didnt like it they would all rise up and strike back at us, then we would resist and the animals would decide on the ultimate exaple of irony and would create their own hybrid the likes of which have never been seen, and it would rain fire and destruction down apon us and then we would promise to stop and the war would end.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:20 am
what is going on about the dog and wolf ‘thing’ its ok that each and everyone of you are smart at science and whatever subject! but dont start acting like some big shots on the web! get a freaking life man! well sorry for the language but lets get to the point!- why dont they cross a liger with a jaguar-now what do u get, i have a name:trioger-meaning of three great cats!
January 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
wow! i did not know that there is a hybrid among the hybrid
January 11th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Hmmmph. I have a hard time equating a Chihuahua or a Pomeranian with Canis lupis ANYTHING and will stick with Canis domesticus because I can call it anything I please, thank you.
As for all you folks who want to piss and moan about how humans don’t deserve to rule this planet, perhaps you are right because even animals don’t kill their own unborn children for convenience’s sake.
Human and Great ape crosses? The last three presidents of the US have been living proof that those experiments succeeded.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I just scrolled down a lil and read a couple of comments, and a lot said that when they had sex with their dog or something nothing happened, and i saw a couple of explinations, but none really may make sense to someone who has no background in biology, so ill put it simple. A human and a chimpanzee can make a hybrid because our chromosome count is near the same. We have like 40 something chromosomes, i can’t remember, but whatever. The chimpanzee has a similar amount. Our phenotypical(physical) and genotypical(genetic, what is written on the chromosomes) are also similar, so a human and a chimpanzee can make a humanzee. Same goes with a horse and a zebra, or a lion and a tiger. So you can’t have sex with your dog and get pregnant nor can the dog.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Person 1: this is cool! It is kinda messing with nature though, which I don’t like… but the Liger is SO CUTE!!!!!
Person 2: hi guess wat? i love the zebra, cama, and liger breeds! they r adorable!
January 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
A good expample of now -a-day Hybrids are the ” bengal ” cat breed. Althought relativley new, ( 1960’s ) it is a mix between a normal house cat and an Asian Leopard cat.
Another one is called a Chausie : mix between an African golden jungle cat to a normal house cat.
A savannha cat : mix between a african serval to a normal house cat.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
wow i l0ve thees animal shame they cant mate though ay hehe
January 17th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
AIDS WAS CREATED WEN MAN FUCKED A BABOON………. WITH THESE ANIMALS I DUNNO WATS GONNA HAPPEN????!!!!
January 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
WITH THESE ANIMALS I CAN BE THE PRODUCER OF THE SPY KIDS 2 MOVIE VERSION .2!!!!!!
January 18th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I think that cross breeding animals is wrong! Most of the hybrid animals at birth die and I think this is a sign that this shouldn’t be happening! We shoild leave mother-nature alone and leave the animals at peace!
January 21st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
i can’t believe that some people have to think about it! messin’ with animals is just fuckin’ wrong! oh, and the people who banged their pets? what’s in your mind?
January 24th, 2007 at 9:40 am
hey killer– dont swear on the internet!!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Any ligers born in the wild?
or any of the top 10 hybrids?
January 26th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Aah i feal bad for the hindu people.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
leopons are the best maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. i like zonys too maaaaaaaan. im gonna get a pet one called zony ponywony maaaaaaaan. you ever seen a dat? cross between a cat and dog maaaaan. crazzaayyy.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:12 am
weee! high-five for a cross between a mexican and a white person! lol my mom says this makes me a red-bean.
high-five if you get the red-bean thing?
aaaany-way. the cama is the coolest one. and the wolf-dog is sooo cute! i have to do biology homework, about species hybrids, and i’m totally doing mine on the cama!
man those ligers. how’d ya like to be charged by one? yikes! i’d crap myself those things are huge haha!!!
peAce out!!!
February 1st, 2007 at 10:14 am
oh yeah! one more high-five for first comment of the new month!!! whoop! (well this is the second too….mmm sloppy seconds! haha jk)
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:35 am
i would like to ride a zorse to school in the future
February 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
all u people are gay bitches
the leopon is awsome!
February 4th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
i really do not see the problems with cross breeding in captivity, i do understand releasing in the wild could be a problem,
i feel it will better help our understanding of life in general
February 8th, 2007 at 2:38 am
[...] too busy to say anything about this Top 10 list of hybrid animals, other than “Maaaaahm, can I get a zony? [...]
February 8th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
you tight bastards you are soooooooo curel
February 10th, 2007 at 1:59 am
THe feelings and emotions that this topic evokes fr0m people is astounding… I can only hope that this kind of effort is applied elsewere in the future. Good read… thanx yall!
February 11th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Weee, i think evolution is stupid, seriously…………………………….
February 12th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
dude said
June 19, 2006 @ 10:52 am
“I wonder if any successful breeding has happened between humans and chimpanzees, our closest relative.”
WHAT THE F**K!!!!!!!
Is this guy serious how SCREWED in the head can you get to even ask that question!!!!!
this guy is almost at f**ked as the movie “Deliverance”
February 13th, 2007 at 8:00 am
jason and is a loser
the dolphin/whale is so adorible OMG also i like the lion/tiger and the zony, zonky and the zorse the people who bred thease animals deserve a nobel prize also they should have bred a cat and a rabbit i agree with the person who said that george bush is a chimp/human only 1/4 human and 3/4 chimp lol
robin/parrot pommeranian/fox
cat /dog
cheetah/leperd
February 14th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
[...] everyone’s cool with that. We’ve made so many hybrids, someone’s come up with a top ten list of them. When we’re not content with seeing what happens when we mix different species, we go [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Why are you people mixing all these different kindas ok animals for? That is just plain worng…..you all suck shit
February 16th, 2007 at 3:35 am
i think justin should shut his gothic mouth and im like d the liger
February 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am
I think people should do something special with wolves, make them look cute and cuddly while at the same time fierce looking like they really are. Wolves are my favorite animal. But with the crossbreeding, go careful, don’t overdo it please. Let at least some of the animals rest in their own pure breeding, but making new dog breeds would be nice, but still think carefully on making a cool wolf hybrid. Thank-you, you’re all awesome! ~red-head-hottie~ :)(:
February 24th, 2007 at 3:42 am
I think you’ve all ignored the most important question… How do they taste..?
February 24th, 2007 at 6:37 am
suck it
February 26th, 2007 at 12:12 am
There is no way that hybrid can mate with another hybrid the chromosones are messed up!
February 26th, 2007 at 12:12 am
There is no way that hybrid can mate with another hybrid the chromosones are messed up!
February 26th, 2007 at 10:47 am
i liked alot of your opinions and really enjoyed them i would appreciated if anyone knows if they has ever been a crosshybrid between a hamster and a guinea pig,please write me aat my
e.mail address
thank you,
Alfredo Larios
February 26th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
I think its great that is actually a “TOP 10″ for hybrod animals.
cool page but.
I dont undestand how can you actually tell from the pictures the difference between a dog and a wolf, jeeez.
But lets be honest here, isnt the 2 day old cama one of the cutest animals you have ever seen?
I think so.
But listen to me, im talking about how cute the animals on here look and most of you guys are talking about the chromosones and all that science junk!
IF I COULD CROSS ANY ANIMAL I WOULD CROSS A .. liger and a zony because then it would be 4 animals together.
that would be coooooool.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
”
Mikael Bergkvist said
June 19, 2006 @ 4:18 am
Ok, the dog and the wolf are of the same species, so that’s strictly speaking not a hybrid, and it’s not very uncommon for them to breed at all. Happens all the time in northern scandinavia, sweden, where I live. ”
a lion and a tiger are in the same family too u doufus [reply to 1st post]
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Just to clarify for those who have commented that they think it’s terrible for people to create hybrids and that it’s unnatural and we should just leave animals/nature alone - it does happen in nature too - without any human interaction so it’s not a horrible thing. There are several feline hybrids, Savannahs, Chausies, Safari’s, Toygers, Bengals, they have the look of minature wild cats, some have spots and some stripes - I think they are very cute. In these hybrids the males are usually sterile until the 5th generation also. In some like the Safari cat - it is a mix of a wild Geoffroy cat and a domestic cat, their offspring are much larger than the original cats, the Geoffroy is a small wild cat. Alot of these kittens from the first generation are premature because of the different gestation periods. The Savannah cat is a mix of an African Serval and a domestic cat - they are the largest domestic feline today - they are beautiful!
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:41 am
This is all F’d up. Animals r people 2. Those guys (and girls) r seriously messed ^! I think that it would b cool 2 have a dog/bear……… : )
March 11th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I love all of the cute animals
March 13th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
YO tis waz of da hiz hoz! Tis waz how i raze ma animals from da hood.Aight Aight Aight. Tis waz tight 2 da fa shiz naux.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:41 am
go.. Liger… best breed i seen… have u guys seen a
Panda Dog..? pretty cute..
March 15th, 2007 at 4:11 am
I thought it was very cool looking at the diverse animals and seeing how they compare with other snimals that are very similar or alike. I found it very interesting to look at.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Nice im gonna post on my blog and link back here
March 17th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
those photos are artificially - fake!
The mule is the most common breed.
The rest is fake.
Did I tell you that I have seen a photo of a Lochstein? Breeding the Loch Monster with Frankestein.
March 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
i think that forcing an animal to have the baby of anouther species should be concidered rape! it is a crule and unhumain act how would you like me to squirt you full of rat sperm u filthy bastards!
March 19th, 2007 at 1:14 am
I like what CARBON had said he said it right on the Nose, Good Job CARBON!
this is what he said.
To anyone that says ‘who are we to play with DNA?! it’s against God!’ i say to you: ‘Shut your preach-hole, you arrogant ass!’ How do you know what God wants? Does he tell you over coffee in the morning while scratching his backside, in his boxers? it’s pompous and presumptious of YOU or ANYONE to speak for GOD. You are not God’s personal press secretary, so get over yourself and keep the moral high ground to your personal life. Something as awesome as gene-splicing / stem cell research / DNA Hybridization could be the first step to us finally evolving out of the dark ages where we still bitch and moan, kill each over over something as petty as ‘religion’. It can lead to greater technologies that will propel us years technologically (probably to at least where we aught to be right now). An end to cancer? Childhood Diabetes and Leukemia? Aids? You don’t think God wants us to evolve and triumph over these things? You had better be pretty sure of yourself before you make such an assumption with such certainty. If God created us in ‘his image’, would we not be best to create as he has done? I don’t understand the reasoning of religious people anymore. Their lives must be very trite, boring, uninspired, meaningless and hopeless. It’s O.K. to kill people of other religions because it’s ‘In the name of God’… but it’s not O.K. to create? /me takes 4 asprin.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Dude Then we got comments Like Nico Posted June 19 he’s like the third or 4th comment after the pics he said.”mankind does not deserve to be caretaker of this planet.” what a fucking idiot does he truly think that. Well you Dumb Ass. If we dont WHO WILL ? The damn Ligers oh no wait the damn Human chimp, what’s he called humzee something lik that. what ever we have the right ,we are here no one else you IDIOT!
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I think tigons are soooooo cute. They are very majestic animals. I also think that people should stop mistreating all the animals in the wild it just makes me sooo MAD.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Does Jason fail to realize the CANIS in all forms of his definitions of wolf and dog? Canis is latin for canine, therefore the dog and the wolf are from the exact same family, it’s common sense! Besides, where do you think the canis domesticus came from? the wild? Men were the ones to domesticate the breed. Don’t try to sound smart.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
wolves are canis-lupus. dogs are canis-familiarise … wolfdog hybrids are just that… not only that… humans have bred dogs that what they consider perfection for certain purposses shep dogs guard dogs and so on … had man not started breding dogs in the first place their may just have been one kind of dog to this day…. canis lupus familiaris is what you get when you beed a dog with a wolf … so no bull dogs nor any other dog would be canis lupus familiaris //
now lets see what would happen if you cross canislupus with leapuslupus …. that would be a wunny wolbit wouldnt it ????
March 26th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
one more thing the only way to get canishomoerectis is to breed canishomoerectis to canishomoerectis not to be confused with lycanthopes that do not exist in the way myth and ledgend would have us to believe but that just the subject of my book currently being writen .. my ideas are somewhat different as the world will soon have the option to see. … this is intended for the one who tried to make a man dog … was un sucessful dog did not like it but he injoyed it… disturbed young man you might say
March 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
“I’m ashamed of being human”, “our species does not deserve to exist”? Who writes that kind of thing, just becuse we crossbred some animals? Look, stupids, the primary, defining characteristic of the human species is its ability to manipulate its environment, its not “playing god”, its performing the evolutionarily-derived maneuvers that have allowed a species with no natural weaponry, prolonged infancy and a weak physiogeny to become the world’s apex predator. What I find amazing is that enough people share my nostalgia for the natural world, that these other species, which are not useful in a practical sense are able to exist at all. Remember, you ancestors “screwing with things” is what allowed you to exist and therefore have the privilege of finding the rest of us so objectionable.
March 30th, 2007 at 5:46 am
ANIMAL CRUELTY!!! Don’t mess around with mother nature.. there might be consequence
March 30th, 2007 at 8:53 am
It was very funny to read what so many had to say. Someone refered to the idea, many believe God made man in the image of him well maybe the joke is on us and we are all hybrids. Believe it or not this could be the way we all began. So many people want to think this is something new the laugh is on them. It isn’t ! People are just getting board and want something to do. But this is only one persons opinion.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:51 am
These animals are so cute
April 8th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
CARBON: Your “opinion” is a true example of over simplification. I’m not a very religious person, but I am a man of science. How has hybridization of animal species helped us better ourselves as humans? This does not help us understand genes better than we already do. With modern science we can accurately predict weather or not two species from the animal kingdom our capable of hybridization with out actually testing it. I don’t think these people are trying to play God, but they definately aren’t going help “bring us out of the dark ages.” Our science is so far beyond this type of testing…it is pointless. If you are just another non-beliver trying to bash someone’s religious beliefs, save it!
April 10th, 2007 at 4:15 am
this is so flippin sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these are really cool!
April 10th, 2007 at 4:17 am
lmao!!! i thought the Wolphin was a wolf and a doulphin!!!! lmao!!! it was very cool. great job.
keegz
April 11th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
couldn’t anyone come up with anything more original than zonkey, zony and zorse? Those names just sound stupid. So does liger and tigon for that matter.
Scientists probably shouldn’t be messing around with nature like this, artificially inseminating animals that can’t breed the natural way. Huge differences in animals disallowing them from breeding the natural way is nature’s way of preventing this kind of thing in the first place. People should stop f***king around with nature.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Whoever is arguing that these experiments are inhumane is an idiot. This is the pinnacle of scientific animal research and experimentation. If you’re going to argue, please take your dumb religion out of it, because in this day in age, religion is getting pushed out of politics more and more. Quite frankly, a lot of the newer generations don’t even believe in “God”. The only reason you people use religion as a scapegoat is because there aren’t any proven facts for argument, and you idiots have so much belief in it that the smart people who you argue with don’t wanna take the time to explain to you why it’s a bunch of bullcrap. Please, I’m asking you to not say anything if you’re going to have to use that 3-letter word in your argument, because it completely nullifies your point. Anyway, I’m fascinated at what these people are creating.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
fascinating yes, sick yes, dont like to think about how some of the reject animals may have suffered in the name of facination.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:38 am
thats just wrong
April 18th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Wheres the ChaLigers?(Cheetah+Ligers)
April 19th, 2007 at 6:56 am
wow some crazy anilals but I herd some of this animals are sterile.I wonder why?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
people are messed up! why in the world would people do this to animals?!?!?! why don’t you do it with a crocodile in see if you like that! Or maybe you should try it with your grandma and see how the results come out!
April 20th, 2007 at 9:26 am
What a fascinating read.
To all of you wondering about crossing humans with other species:
please read this book “The Island of Doctor Moreau” by H.G. Wells
April 20th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
when i saw these pics I thought wow. The most amazing ones were the zonky, zorse, zony and wolfin. God help you all!!!
April 26th, 2007 at 3:16 am
When I saw these pics I was so horrified that some people as cruel as this could put animals lives in danger.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Has anyone watched the tv series “Dark Angel” ?
Its main characters are all human/animal hybrids with superhuman strength & abilities.
Maybe those who are forcing the hybrid breeding of animals are fans of this show.
“Dark Angel” is a work of fiction. Hybrid breeding doesn’t give Superpowers - just freaks!Just ‘cos these scientists like pretending to be God - doesn’t make them God.
end rant.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Ya’ all need to know that the crossing animals resulting in “hybrids” in my eyes is just like the crossing races for humans. I don’t see anything wrong with either. If an animal wasn’t meant to be then it ain’t gonna be carried full-term by the dam. And hybrids being sterlie is as much of a possiblity as a pure-bred. What most of you don’t know is one-third if not more of the human population is infertial and two-thirds of couples can not conceive without help.
I myself own two beautiful wolfdogs and they are the smartest animals I have ever had the pleasure of adopting into my family. For those of you that don’t agree with these crossing and are bible thumpers ask yourself way would god let this happen and when you can’t answer it, ask yourself if you know anyone that is a mutt themselves. I am a mutt, I am native american, german, irish, and god knows what else, am I an Abomination since i’m not a pure-bred?
All I have to say is great over yourselves!!!
May 9th, 2007 at 1:26 am
this is so coo
May 9th, 2007 at 7:28 am
[...] Hybridization Debate V1.0 A interesting link: Top 10 Hybrid Animals - Hemmy.net, A source of varied interests I had no idea about some of these. I of course knew about the famous Liger Also, anyone have any [...]
May 10th, 2007 at 12:45 am
The Zony is sooo cute. Along with the liger.
May 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Well my science class is doing a hybrid progect and im doing a “Monkurel” witch is a monkey and a eastern fox squirrel put together! well its a fun progect! i hope you could do it someday!
Luv,
Missy
May 14th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
[...] out these hybrids… Top 10 Hybrid Animals - Hemmy.net, A source of varied interests [...]
May 16th, 2007 at 1:03 am
the zonkey’s are assom and i want one hahahahahahahahaha i like eggs and chi chi’s
May 16th, 2007 at 1:29 am
i really dont give a crap about any of this but lets through this in for instance. for all we know god was just a man right i mean we are scientist speaking here the world was created in the big bang not by a man claiming to be our god.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:35 am
One person said all dolphins are whales. Then proceeds to say a false whale is not a dolphin but a whale. I’m confrused by that logic.
May 17th, 2007 at 12:51 am
so all we are doing is being exactly like the man claiming to be god. which is just a scientist. that is all he was a man that loved science and hide it to gain the popularity of thousands.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
WHo ever is mating these animals please tell me why youre doing it?
May 18th, 2007 at 6:32 am
If i get a Zony, I’ll name it zany!
May 18th, 2007 at 11:53 am
we have bought zonys after looking at this page there names are ziggy and tomarto zause
we love them they are so fast we take them in jumping comp and have one many times,
thanks for showing us these because we wouldn’t have them now !!!!
thx bye
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
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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
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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??
November 29th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Snakes are not immune to their own poison. Tease a Rattle Snake long enough and they will strike themselves and cause their own death.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:48 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. YEA RIGHT LOL
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
These animals are so FREAKY but cool at the same time!
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
These animals are SO FREAKY and awesome at the same time! Peace!
December 4th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
the animals look fucking awsome
December 12th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I sow the most cruel thing at a fare….they put a ligar in a cage and then left it thier with no food or water…I DESPISE PEOPLE WHO ARE CRUEL TO ANIMALS!!!
December 13th, 2007 at 8:03 am
This is sick. People should not play God. Plus havnt we done enough damage to animals already. Oh and by the way people are not in any way superior to animals. Animals are superior b/c they are genuine and sincer and dont have evil/ bad intentions. LEAVE ANIMALS ALONE YOU SICK FUCKS! Fuck people
December 13th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
This is so wrong. Dont play God. And no we dont have the right to do what we want with animals, we are not superior. They have rights. Who would want to hurt and experiment with such sincere and genuiene creatures.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:53 am
and these animals are doomed to horrible genetic problems and suffering in captivity…..
December 20th, 2007 at 5:50 am
wow.. year n half.. and the thread goes on!
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:25 am
all they need to make now is a gorilla bear, that would be awesome.
December 24th, 2007 at 6:46 am
a gorilla bear would be so cool
i wonder what a cross would be for a seal and a penguin would be
December 28th, 2007 at 11:24 am
this is kinda funny. i mean seriously. but these are almost all crossbreads… totally sweet looking ones at that. i think a lot of the people interested in this would get a kick out of reading crichton’s new book (sorry for the shameless plug) it’s a pretty good read and has an interesting semi-fictional take on transgenetic uses.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
the blacck and white leopon is photoshoped nice try though
January 10th, 2008 at 8:46 am
You guys do realize that you could never cross breed a cockroach to a turtle or anything else so radical as that. The DNA is too different. Chimps and humans can’t breed together, our DNA does not match close enough, PLUS it’s unethical. It will never happen as long as some of the world is morally inclined. George W. Bush is not part chimpanzee, but one of the best presidents this country has ever had in such a time of crisis. You people should be ashamed of blatantly calling out the president on a forum about animal hybrids. Talk about being low.
As for the crossbred animals not being able to breed, this is most of the time for their own benefit. Most of the animals will be circus or zoo animals, living a life that would not be suitable for unwanted or extra offspring. Just think about it, would you rather have one liger in the zoo, or three li-liger/ti-tigon kittens laying around, perjaps mutated even further?
January 11th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Marvelous site, Havent laughed so much in ages, hey what about crossing a chicken with an octopus then we could all get a leg to eat! Also I know of a few welsh people that spend a lot of time shagging sheep, not sure of their intentions but believe its more for pleasure than to create a new species
January 11th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i think wolves and dogs are very differant not ever in the same class i raise wolf / malumute wolf / german shepard wolf/ husky hybyids image if i crossed with a poodle or rat terrier a pug or even a bull dog now all of a sudden you got a mut on your hands only shepards and husy / malumutes are good crosses for a wolf the rest of the dogs types are are a world differant shepards and husky only mimic wolf in appearnce not in manner or action muck differant ans a house cat and a lion i speak from experience from owning one full blooded wolf several hybrids husky and shepards i can see it all take place on diffent levals
January 13th, 2008 at 8:43 am
i think these animals are pretty awsome
ok dudes these are freakin awsome!!!!!!!!!!
so dont doubt us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:41 am
cross breed humans and apes you get bigfoot
January 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am
it is really sad that these animals are being bred. Aren’t people thinking about how this animals would live? It’s like cross breeding is destroying their natural abilities to cope with our harsh environment. Most of the breeders are just doing this for entetainment and if for a noble purpose, it is still a disaster because not all people are thinking the way they think. they might use their ideas in a way that will harm these animals or even us. Let us be open minded with this kind of issue. though they may help in some ways, but let us think of the long term effect to the environment, the biodiversity and to anything concerned. Though i am taking up biology, i am against this process. It is gradually killing the animals unconsciously.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:04 am
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I WILL RUB IT ON MY EARS
January 30th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Yeah……………………… We dont Have the right to surpass GOD…. by experimenting dis Animals…. but duhhhhhhh…… People can do everything just wish a karma Okey….
January 31st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
i own a half dingo half cattle dog
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 am
Isn’t a Wolf Dog a Huskie. And the Hybrid Pheasant could be the Golden Amherst Phesant… Dontcha think.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
dat:ya u can. the reason ppl say u cant is because there is a hybrid. dogs are a different species, canis familiaris.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
members of the same family dont have to be able to mate together. wolfdogs are possible because they are in the same genus.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:14 am
My favorite pic is the cama It is soooooo CUTE!!!! I cant wait until the next time this is posted
Kimberly
February 18th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Dude chill out. Some of these hybrids happen naturally in nature. Humans have been breading animals for desirable qualities for hundreds of years. Hell, animals have been breading themselves! They will look for the strongest, fastest, biggest, loudest mate - whatever traits they desire - and mate with that one.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
My favorite one are the wolf dogs! They are very cute!
February 19th, 2008 at 5:17 am
i wonder wat the offspring of female white tiger n male white lion will look like.will it be white liger?n how big n beautful will it be?guys,do u know anyone who tried?
February 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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February 20th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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February 21st, 2008 at 1:04 am
Just to make it clear, dogs and wolves are NOT the same species. Dogs are Canis familiaris while wolves are Canis lupus. So they are in fact hybrids…they are however VERY closely related genetically and do frequently interbreed naturally.
February 21st, 2008 at 5:40 am
All this back and forth about whether it’s a species or not… WHATEVER!!! All I know is that one of those Dog/Wolf combos attacked me one time when I was at a dinner party at someone’s house for NO REASON. I was waiting inside the house to use the restroom when he lunged at me and grabbed my arm. I immediately jumped on him and began strangling his throat while he still had my forearm in his grasp. The stupid fucking owner of the house (and dog) came in and got MAD AT ME for trying to kill her dog. I returned to the party (outside on the deck) with blood dripping down my arm. People who own dogs like that are idiots.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:59 am
These comments about the wolf /dog thing…its abit too far for my liking. A wolf bred with a dog is basicly a husky..witch is a type of dog…
My friend had a husky witch was 99% wolf..but it was still a dog..soo there aint much difference between the two types…
I mean think about it…if its 99% wolf…and it aint even a wolf how do you know these speices are so different…or even different atall. Just because it has a different name and slighty different features, doesnt mean its a different speices. A Husky doesnt look atall like a sausage dog…but they’re still dogs for f**k sake…
Also…how do we actually know about what animals are orginal. Cause if we came from monkeys…then we’re hybrids aswell. So who can say what is right and what is wrong. A hourse could have been a something before it was a hourse…but we don’t have this type of evidence. For all we know…every animal ever to stand on this planet…could be a hybrid. So don’t say “crossing animals is wrong…”, because you don’t know f**k all.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Ok I might have been abit hasty…maybe we do have some evidence were animals came from…but at one stage or another…we/ they have made a cross-breeding to get to were we/they are now.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:41 am
make a whale/bear aka. a brale
March 1st, 2008 at 4:57 am
how is a sausage dog a dog
March 1st, 2008 at 5:01 am
dog and wolf are 2 sImilar species, you have more than 99 percent my DNA but does that make you me no.. humans have 99 percent chimp DNA but noone ever said we are chimps..so there (to D!
March 1st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
platypi are natural not hybrids
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 am
hybrids dont have to be rare
March 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
i’m have to do a report about liger*-*)
March 5th, 2008 at 6:25 am
I declare that “D!” skipped a few too many Biology classes. How do we know they’re different species he asks? Well there’s this amazing thing called DNA that we use to discover whether they’re separate species. And as for the comment of the horse having possibly been something before it was a horse… Guess what it was! A horse originated from a Hyracotherium (a horse like animal which existed around 55 million years ago). So mabey looking into a little biology, or science in general, would help before making such a strong statement.
March 6th, 2008 at 4:52 am
This is insane. We need to stop cross-breeding these animals. And to all the people that thinks these are ‘cute’ I wish you to die.
This is UNHUMANE YOU FUCKERS.
IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY.
SCIENTISTS, YOU NEED TO DIE.
I FUCKING HATE THIS PLANET.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am
this isnt wrong unless its forced by people
but i think its pretty cool
i wish that they did saber-tooth with a lion
but saber-totths are dead
March 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
those zonkys are so cool!
how can you think ther like evil or something??
ther beautiful!
March 14th, 2008 at 3:45 am
mixing hybrids shouldn’t be done. As it only will great problems for there species to evolve or even survive on their own. why not just alternate resources to repair the ozone layer or findings that can actually help Eath.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am
it would be cool if they made a cross between a Pheasant and a duck to create a PHUCK.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:28 am
these pictures are GREAT. After reading some of the posts, i have had mixed feelings about mixing hybrids. i mean, they look extremly cute, but is this what god has intended? before we get too carried away, we should think to ourselves…… is this nessesary??????????
March 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
wtf?
the li-liger looks like a normal tiger
March 15th, 2008 at 7:41 am
ed borasky and dude- if no one has told you aids was formed because people in africa did some crazy stuff with monkeys so unless they are going to make the off-spring develop outside the body and use external fertilization that probably want happen very soon.
nico I agree, why are we the care takers of this planet, look what weve done. I am 13 and i know this should not be going on.If you were a parent would you want to have a chimp child, i dont think so
March 21st, 2008 at 12:18 am
they have tried cross breeding humans and chimps but have failed over and over again, but they are planning to advance their knowledge of cross breeding these species and have success
March 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
sex
March 27th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I really thinkl that all this inbreeding is disgusting. To create white tigers, means that the offspring has a 25% chance of being good enough to show. And 75% of those has defects in their immune system that cause them to die very young. Thats on one out of sixteen cubs born, if the pregancy is successful, will be shown in a zoo. But then, pregancys are sucsessful only about a third of the time. That means that a perfect white tiger comes along one out of every forty eight tries. Those odds mean that all the other cubs that lived, but had phisical flaws are uthinized. Forty seven are killed for just one cub.
Having that many killed just in the breeding of two tigers, the same species, is just unethical and grotesque. Now, breeding two compleatly different species alone would be a feat. Having the pregnacy be successful, then having the cubs be born alive, then having the cubs survive illnesses, then having the markings right, then having them reach to full adult hood must be one out of hundreds.
These numbers are just immense. No human should ever kill that many for that one cross. There is not real reason to breed for that particular cross besides just something people look at, say ‘cool’, and move on. Breeding these animals by mistake which is just impossibal, or breeding them and taking what ever comes out of it, deformed or not, would be just barely acceptable, but to kill all but the perfect ones is just barbaric. These animals should not be bred.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Mankind is not the keeper of this planet. It takes care of itself. It may get terribly sick because of mans lack of concern but it will most certainly take care of itself in the long run. Only man is so conceited as to believe he can control mother earth. Arrogance! B.S.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I would think by now that most thinking humans with tripple digit I.Q’s. have enough knowledge to know that man and his endeavors in tangling with mother nature (Gods creations) are both complete failures. Man has failed at trying to mimic God (mother nature) and he has done nothing but damage to our “spaceship earth”. God forgive us for our arrogance in thinking that we know better than you what is good for us here.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Why do THAT with the poor animals and SPECIAL with the LLAMA AND THE CAMEL that is just forcing them to do wHat they dont want that is just mean why do that with the animals. What if a GORILLA AND A HUMAN HYBRID WOULD YOU LIKE THAT??? I THINK NOT!!! SO WHY DO THAT WITH THE ANIMALS. IF IT JUST HAPPEN IN AN ACCIDENT THE OKAY. BUT IF SOMEONE ARTIFIAL INSEMINATION AN ANIMAL THAT IS JUST MISTAPE. DO YOU THINK ANIMAL FROM DIFFERENT SPECIES HYBRID?? SO DONT DO THAT!!! STOP DOING THAT PEOPLE!!!!! THAT IS JUST CRUEL!!! ={
April 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
What a read! Some of these comments have had me in stitches, thanks for the laughs guys!! Who knew hybrids could cause such a ruckus. Oh, I can’t forget to mention the spelling and grammar…lol
April 8th, 2008 at 3:52 am
you guys know that a bonobo is actually ours closet relativive it can learn easier than a chimp. the whole species also prefers to walk upright. they can walk upright for long distances and have the same sexual behaviors as humans. they are so aimilar to humans that zoo keepers get disturbed that they actually can communicate by writing without being taught. this is one of the reasons that they are rarely observed in zoo.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:37 am
I’m just waiting to see a cross between a black panther and lion, tiger, or cheetah. Bet that would be kewl lookin, huh? :3
April 15th, 2008 at 6:57 am
I’m reading the comments now, and I’m beginning to think of what most of you are saying.
Yes, there are ethical issues to be worked out, we get it, but don’t freak out.
Science will [almost] always have a reason to see what can and can’tcross-breed. I’m sure it’s to find out how closely related a species would have to be to be able to interbreed because perhaps there is a species out there with desirable traits that could make a human live longer, or more prone to diseases? That would be a plus dontcha think? And that would be a fairly good reason to do all this.
Also, for those of you who say this is animal cruelty, the parents aren’t being tortured. *rolls eyes* An egg cell is taken from the mom, a sperm cell from the dag, both are put in a pitri dish, swirled around, and put into the mother’s womb. Simple. And painless [sorta.] And yes, some crosses don’t work out and the poor baby dies, but they may not have been killed, per se. If the world thought this was cruel and sickening, it would be against the law and the people who attempted to cross the animals would be in jail for animal cruelty and such. So no need to get all worked up. Especially here. The maker of this site has nothing to do with the inbreeding of animals, just explaining and showing us the pictures of the animals. Kay?
~ Unknown, Age 14, Bio student
April 15th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Oops, typo in my last post. It’s supposed to say “Less Prone” instead of “More prone”
Please don’t think I want us to be more prone to diseases.
Also, perhaps the cure for cancer is the genes of a different species and we can only be able to use the gene if we had 99.99% genetic similarity to us humans. Just a though.
Yours truely,
~Unknown1251
April 19th, 2008 at 6:43 am
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April 21st, 2008 at 2:18 am
Hay thx for putting this on it really helped me with things for my homework.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:06 am
i wanna cross breed a load of animals like cross breed one with another and keep doing that and have an animal (if you can call it that) that has every animal gene in it
wierd
May 5th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I want to see what a human - Chimapanzee would look like, a Humanzee. I know it could happen as genetically humans and chimpanzees are closer than tigers and lions.
Check out wikipedia. I think it must have happened
May 5th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
[...] GRIZZLY BEAR PLUS POLAR BEAR MAKES PIZZLY BEAR. DNA analysis has confirmed that a bear shot in the Canadian Arctic in 2006 was a half-polar bear, half-grizzly hybrid. While the two bear species have interbred in zoos, this is the first evidence of a wild polar bear-grizzly offspring. And now a new pizzly bear has been spotted on Victoria Island where thirteen grizzly bears are living much more northernly then usual. Jim Martell (pictured at left), a 65-year-old hunter from Idaho, shot the bear on the southern tip of Banks Island (see Northwest Territories map), the CanWest News Service reports. Wildlife officials seized the bear after noticing its white fur was interspersed with brown patches. It also had long claws, a concave facial profile, and a humped back, which are characteristic of a grizzly. Now the genetic tests have confirmed that the hybrid’s father was a grizzly and its mother was a polar bear. read on here >> [...]
May 8th, 2008 at 1:18 am
i think it very wrong that these scientists r doing these things, i wonder if they have a normal life with children n spouses.Why interfere with gods creation?Jeez! I’m sure they know that by doing these ‘amazing hybriding’ really weakens the species.To me its just not right,so thumbs down for these ’super einsteins’
May 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Ok just a few things..
First of all, I don’t understand why do artificial insemination on animals of different species.. thats just weird! If they like to get freaky on their own, thats their business! But in the other hand, more power to animal testing and experimentation (saves lives).
Second, some of these bloggers are pretty lame.. if you don’t like what you see, don’t look! Whats with all this “Lets not play god now” its crap and hypocritical!! Everyone plays god once in a while and others swallow it! “Oh Im so ashamed of being a human” WHO F*CKING CARES.. If ur so ashamed, put and end to it. GOD! Don’t like science? boy are you in the wrong planet! God gave us the tool, I say use them! If were gonna complain about experimentation, lets take care of Michael Jackson first..
Third, Bush is an idiot, no one should ever try to duplicate that, and
Finally, That Bulldog Shih-tzu comment was F******* hillarious..
I rest my case!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
oh and by the way, wikipedia is not a very reliable source.. with a membership anyone can edit the information!
May 12th, 2008 at 5:20 am
I knew there had to be a Ti-Liger, Ti-Tigon, Li-Tigon, Li-Liger
May 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I’ve heard a lot of talk about evolution. However, hybrids tend to show the limits of evolving. Sure, some evolving has gone on but how many millions of years do some people add on to each instance of evolving species to explain how it happened? How much time would you have to add on to get these different species to actually be able to reproduce? (which most hybrids are not capable of?)
Also, have you noticed that when species hybridize, it is possible to LOSE the diversity of the species. Take for example, the barred owl an