10 most amazing hybrid animals

[Rahul92]

1.ZEBROIDS
A zebroid (also zedonk, zorse, zebra mule, and zebrule) is the offspring of any cross between a zebra with female animal from the equidae family.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.

2.LIGER
This amazing cross bread between male lion and female tiger result to hybrid a Liger.they are the biggest of all the big cats, growing to almost the lion and tigers combined size.

3.WHOLPHIN
This amazing hybrid is a result of mating of a female bottlenose dolphin with a male False Killer Whale.These remarkable animals have been known to occur in the wild, but so far there are only two living examples of wholphins in captivity, and they both call the Sea Life Park in Hawaii home.

4.CAMA
A cama is a hybrid between a male dromedary camel and a female llama, produced 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.

 

[Rahul92]

5.LEPON
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.

6. Toast of Botswana
It is the hybrid offspring of a sheep and a goat. Although sheep and goats seem similar and can be mated, they belong to different genera in the subfamily Caprinae of the family Bovidae. Sheep belong to the genus Ovis and have 54 chromosomes, while goats belong to the genus Capra and have 60 chromosomes.

7.Wolf Dog
A wolfdog is a canid hybrid resulting from the mating of a wolf and a dog.

 

[Rahul92]

8.Cheetoh
The Cheetoh is a breed of domestic cat, derived from crossings between specific Bengal cat and Ocicat bloodlines. Being a new breed, it is rare. Because it is partly derived from the Bengal, a domestic–wild hybrid cat, the Cheetoh is itself a hybrid.

9.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.

10.Zorse
A zorse is a cross between a zebra stallion and a horse mare. The zorse takes the color or dominant color gene of the mare and the zebra sire gives it stripes

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[KS]

There is also the Tigon - male Tiger and female Lion.

 

[blank_quest]

What will happen when Tigon and Liber mate

 

[Razor]

What will happen when Tigon and Liber mate

Lol, this is getting crazy.

Liliger

Male tiglons and ligers are sterile, but female hybrids can produce cubs.

 

[Razor]

@Mad Indian : Explain how this is happening man ? How can inter-species breeding take place ? Elucidate the advantages and disadvantages ? How or why is say the lion persuaded to mate with a tiger, which is a different species and hence should not be subject to the the lion's carnal desire ?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The mule is till the most useful hybrid.

Benson Mule Days®

 

[Tolaha]

@Mad Indian : Explain how this is happening man ? How can inter-species breeding take place ? Elucidate the advantages and disadvantages ? How or why is say the lion persuaded to mate with a tiger, which is a different species and hence should not be subject to the the lion's carnal desire ?

Carnal desire between two different species? I think I have heard this before! But I wasn't aware it could result in reproduction! That's unbelievable! Probably explains why some folks remind you of dogs and donkeys!

 

[civfanatic]

@Mad Indian : Explain how this is happening man ? How can inter-species breeding take place ? Elucidate the advantages and disadvantages ? How or why is say the lion persuaded to mate with a tiger, which is a different species and hence should not be subject to the the lion's carnal desire ?

I was under the impression that this type of breeding takes place almost exclusively in captivity and via artificial insemination. If a tiger and a lion were to meet in the wild, 99 out of 100 times the tiger would not try to mate with it but would simply kill the lion (a tiger is much larger and more powerful than a lion).

 

[Razor]

I was under the impression that this type of breeding takes place almost exclusively in captivity and via artificial insemination. If a tiger and a lion were to meet in the wild, 99 out of 100 times the tiger would not try to mate with it but would simply kill the lion (a tiger is much larger and more powerful than a lion).

Dude, I got this from the net.

A liger is the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion is called a tigon. Both are usually sterile, as the parent species have different numbers of chromosomes (meaning that the hybrid cannot produce functional sex cells), but occasionally a female will be fertile. Whilst these animals are 'man-made' in that they are not known to occur naturally in the wild, they are NOT the result of artificial insemination as some people seem to think. A lion and tiger are simply housed together, often from a young age, so that they are accustomed to each other and will mate when the female comes into season.

Their mating rituals are very similar. The male knows the female is in heat from her scent - she releases certain pheromones that inform him of her condition. You will often see male cats checking if females are in heat using the 'flehmen' reaction - a grimace in which the male pulls back his lips, baring his teeth, and sticks out his tongue. This draws scent over the Jacobson's organ in the roof of the mouth, which produces a sense somewhere between smell and taste and is especially useful in analysing pheromones. The female also 'flirts' with the male, rubbing up against him, flicking her tail across his face, and rolling on the ground in front of him. They will mate every fifteen to twenty minutes for at least three days. The penis of all male cats is covered in backward-facing barbs which cause pain to the female when withdrawn - this is thought to help stimulate ovulation in the female, as cats are induced ovulators (this means that their bodies require the stimulus of mating before they release eggs). It's also the reason that female cats often turn on their mates, snarling and clawing, when they dismount.

Note that reputable zoos frown on the breeding of hybrids such as ligers and tigons, as they have no value from a conservation point of view and are taking up space and resources that could be used to breed endangered species. They are basically freaks bred to persuade a gullible public into paying out to see them.
Source(s):
I used to be a zookeeper and have studied animals all my life.

Source: Is a "liger" a created by artificial insemination or do animal cross breed species on their own? - Yahoo! Answers

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Has there ever been any liger produced through natural means? That is to say, intercourse between the lion and tiger parents or are they all artificially inseminated? I'm just wondering if they have ever tamed a lion and a tiger so much that they would go against the natural order and have intercourse themselves.
This question is not asking whether or not liger's occured in the wild. I'm talking about a domesticated envrionment, here, I'm just talking about the natural form of procreation.
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Stacy Had this To Say
Yes, Ligers have been produced (in zoos, of course), through "normal" mating of a lion and tiger. Ligers have been known in zoos since the late 1800"²s, long before artificial insemination technology was available.
Also, the roles of zoos have changed quite a bit since then. It used to be popular to have oddities in zoos that would attract paying customers, but these days zoos are more about breeding and preservation of endangered species. I don't think a zoo would undergo the expensive and difficult AI process to produce a sterile animal.
So yes, tigers and lions, in the absence of a partner of their own species, will have sex. I guess the "natural" order is more than about what species you are or what continent you're from.

pumpkinB Had this To Say
From wikipedia:
"According to The Tiger, Symbol of Freedom rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild.[3] Under exceptional circumstances it has been known for a tiger to be forced into ranges inhabited by the Asiatic Lion, Panthera leo persica, which is a different species as the tiger, Panthera tigris. This may have occurred in the Gir Forest in India where the ranges of Asiatic Lions and Bengal Tigers overlap. This combination of species in the wild however is considered improbable.[4]"
Some reports have been made of seeing these in the wild, just outside of India, and the word Liger was entered into usage in the 1930"²s (way before napoleon dynamite was around)

Source: www.liger.org

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Ligers are very rare. This is because wild animals do not, as a rule, mate outside their own species, and in any case, the wild ranges of lions and tigers do not overlap. So for lion to meet tiger requires a human to introduce them. Even then, most responsible zoos will not encourage the creation of hybrid animals which do not exist in nature. (For the same reason, ligers, as 'artificial' animals, do not have a proper taxonomic latin name.) There is also an ethical issue, in that genetic diseases and cancers are more common in these hybrids, and in any case, liger males are sterile. In fact, ligers are rarer now that they have been for over a century, as they used to be bred by victorian menageries as a commercial attraction. There is even a record from 1837 of a liger being presented to Queen Victoria by an Indian princess. Attempts during the 1930s to create hybrids by artificial insemination were not particularly successful, and the ligers of today are invariably the result of live matings.

Source: www.knowyourcat.info

So it's probably not artificial insemination.

 

[civfanatic]

^^I am no zoologist or lion/tiger expert! My field of study deals with advanced primates!

 

[mki]

here is male monkey + donkey + paki pig and arab woman..

 

[Mad Indian]

@Mad Indian : Explain how this is happening man ? How can inter-species breeding take place ? Elucidate the advantages and disadvantages ? How or why is say the lion persuaded to mate with a tiger, which is a different species and hence should not be subject to the the lion's carnal desire ?

Species in modern biology is defined as the group of animals capable of inter-breeding.

A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, the difficulty of defining species is known as the species problem. Differing measures are often used, such as similarity of DNA, morphology or ecological nichehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

So By dfn, when we say a species of Lion, we mean that Lions which give birth to lions capable of reproduction.

So when there is breeding between species, offsprings may or may not be produced based on the genetic differences and similiarities between the species in question. But the catch is that they are infertile. Most of the products of interspecies breeding will result in defective organisms, for the lack of some genetic material in them compared to the animals of same species birth!

Also, note that both Lions and Tigers belong to the same genus Leo, though they are seperate species.

And there is no such thing as carnal desire in animal kingdom. Pleasure and other such things associated with sex are exclusive to very small group of animals like Chimps, Humans, Dolphins(not sure) . Lions/tigers reproduce when the time is right for them to reproduce , "the time" being controlled by the periodically changing levels of hormones in them. Also, pheromones play a very important role in bringing them together. So when "the time" is right, and the male/female lion/tiger and tiger/lion found themselves without partners, they mate with the ones closest to their species

I am not an expert but this is what I could think of regarding this issue...

 

[Yusuf]

Funny after all those years of camel & donkey sex Pakis yet to produce a hybrid. Oh wait the Talibunnies would qualify?

 

[SPIEZ]

After seeing this thread

 

[Known_Unknown]

Interesting! And great thread! I remember reading a few years ago that humans and chimpanzees may not be able to inter-breed because they have different number of chromosomes. Apparently that's not true!

Humanzee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Humans have one fewer pair of chromosomes than other apes, since the ape chromosomes 2 and 4 have fused into a large chromosome (which contains remnants of the centromere and telomeres of the ancestral 2 and 4) in humans.[3] Having different numbers of chromosomes is not an absolute barrier to hybridization. Similar mismatches are relatively common in existing species, a phenomenon known as chromosomal polymorphism.

The genetic structure of all the great apes is similar. Chromosomes 6, 13, 19, 21, 22, and X are structurally the same in all great apes. Chromosomes 3, 11, 14, 15, 18, and 20 match between gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. Chimps and humans match on 1, 2p, 2q, 5, 7–10, 12, 16, and Y as well. Some older references will include Y as a match between gorillas, chimps, and humans, but chimpanzees (including bonobos) and humans have recently been found to share a large transposition from chromosome 1 to Y that is not found in other apes.[4]

This level of chromosomal similarity is roughly equivalent to that found in equines. Interfertility of horses and donkeys is common, although sterility of the offspring (mules) is nearly universal (around 60 exceptions have been recorded in the whole of equine history[citation needed]). Similar complexities and prevalent sterility pertain to horse-zebra hybrids, or zorses, whose chromosomal disparity is very wide, with horses typically having 32 chromosome pairs and zebras possessing between 44 and 62 depending upon species. In a direct parallel to the chimp-human case, the Przewalski horse (Equus przewalskii) with 33 chromosome pairs, and the domestic horse (E. caballus) with 32 chromosome pairs, have been found to be interfertile, and produce semi-fertile offspring, where male hybrids can breed with female domestic horses.[5]

Very interesting indeed! So will a human-chimp hybrid mean the death of religion (or at least of the Abrahamic faiths) as we know it? After all, if humans are so utterly different and separate from other animals, how can an ape-human hybrid be explained?

Were a Humanzee to be born, would the teachings of the Abrahamic faith apply to him/her? Was he born in Sin? If he mated with another chimp, the resultant offspring would be a 2/3rd Chimp & 1/3rd human. Would the story of Adam and Eve mean anything to him/her? What would be the intellectual ability of these offspring?

I'm shocked to see such little investigation and research into this by the scientific community. The knowledge we gain from these experiments could change the entire basis of organization of human society, culture, ethics etc!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Cogito Ergo Sum

"Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am")

-- René Descartes

"I think, therefore I think I am"

-- Known_Unknown

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The mule is till the most useful hybrid.

Himalayan pack mules on the highway in Ladakh, India

 

[IBSA]

I'm shocked to see such little investigation and research into this by the scientific community. The knowledge we gain from these experiments could change the entire basis of organization of human society, culture, ethics etc!

The detached stretch above gives the answer why these experiments didn't were continued.

Religious prejudices against any possibility to approach human specie with other monkeys as our most near relatives than that God, which may shake this beliefs