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Just One Drop – How Does It Apply To Hybrid Human/animal Embryos?

liger — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:26 +0000

The UK parliament legislation to allow animal/human hybrids for experimentation.
I was wondering how the ‘just one drop’ principal works for this — can just one drop of animal DNA make the embryo an animal, or does just one drop of human DNA make the embryo human?

What Status Would A Hybrid Human/animal Receive?

liger — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:17:33 +0000

If people and animal genetic borders brokedown. What status should would the hybrids receive.
This is a question of maesureing tolorence. It has been determined possible to mix human and animal genetics. No one has done this yet, but it may be just a matter of time before a half-human/ half-animal baby is born.
What status would that baby receive?

What Is The Most Unusual (but Viable) Hybrid Animal?

liger — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:17:15 +0000

Hi. I know a dog breeder, who tells me that it is perfectly possible to cross a very large dog, let’s say a great dane, with a very small dog, let’s say,. a chihuahua. Well obviously the great dane would have to be the mother, but if you arranged matters, the puppies would be viable.
So this got me thinking, would the same thing work with birds and/or fish? Could you cross a goose with a chicken, for instance? Or could you cross a pike with a carp? What is the most unusual cross which would produce viable hybrid offspring?

What Would The Religious Implications Of An Animal-human Hybrid?

liger — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:19:56 +0000

This is already being done in the lab. If this research was allowed to be continued to a point where living animal-human hybrid offspring were created, what would the religious & moral implications be?
Would these creatures have souls? Are they subject to judgement from god? Do they have original sin? How should they be treated? etc…

Which 2 Different Species Of Animals Would You Like To See Breed A Hybrid Animal?

liger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:54:50 +0000

for example when a lion and tiger produce a ligon that is a hybrid animal

What Percentage Of Genes Do Two Animals Have To Have In Common In Order To Hybridize?

liger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:17:02 +0000

Real Answers Only Please

Examples of Hybrid Animals

liger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:08:22 +0000

Dog hybrids are crosses between different breeds and are often bred selectively.

Hybrid Iguana is single cross hybrid, result of natural inbreeding from male marine iguana and female land Iguana since late 2000s.

Equid hybrids

Mule, a cross of female horse and a male donkey.
Hinny, a cross between a female donkey and a male horse. Mule and Hinny are examples of reciprocal hybrids.
Zebroids
- Zeedonk or Zonkey, a zebra/donkey cross.
- Zorse, a zebra/horse cross
- Zony or Zetland, a zebra/pony cross (”zony” is a generic term; “zetland” is specifically a hybrid of the Shetland pony breed with a zebra)

Bovid hybrids

Dzo, zo or yakow; a cross between a domestic cow/bull and a yak.
Beefalo, a cross of an American Bison and a domestic cow. This is a fertile breed; this along with genetic evidence has caused them to be recently reclassified into the same genus, Bos.
Zubron, a hybrid between Wisent (European Bison) and domestic cow.

Sheep-goat hybrids, such as the The Toast of Botswana.

Ursid hybrids, such as the Grizzly-polar bear hybrid, occur between black bears, brown bears, Kodiak and polar bears.

Felid hybrids

Savannah cats are the hybrid cross between an African serval cat and a Domestic cat
A hybrid between a Bengal tiger and a Siberian tiger is an example of an intra-specific hybrid.
Ligers and Tigons (crosses between a Lion and a Tiger) and other Panthera hybrids such as the Lijagulep. Various other wild cat crosses are known involving the Lynx, Bobcat, Leopard, Serval, etc.
Bengal cat, a cross between the Asian Leopard cat and the domestic cat, one of many hybrids between the domestic cat and wild cat species. The domestic cat, African wild cat and European wildcat may be considered variant populations of the same species (Felis silvestris), making such crosses non-hybrids.

Fertile Canid hybrids occur between coyotes, wolves, dingoes, jackals and domestic dogs.

Hybrids between Black Rhinos & White Rhinos have been recognized.

Hybrids between spotted owls and barred owls

Cama, a cross between a Camel and a Llama, also an intergeneric hybrid.

Wolphin, a fertile but very rare cross between a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin.

A fertile cross between an albino King Snake and an albino Corn Snake.

The Wurdmann’s heron, a cross of the white heron and the great blue heron.

At Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom, a cross between African elephant (male) and Asian elephant (female). The male calf was named Motty. It died of gut infection after twelve days.

Cagebird breeders sometimes breed hybrids between species of finch, such as Goldfinch x Canary. These birds are known as Mules.

Gamebird hybrids, hybrids between gamebirds and domestic fowl, including Chickens, Guineafowl and Peafowl, interfamilial hybrids.

Numerous Macaw hybrids are also known.

Red Kite x Black Kite: 5 bred unintentionally at a falconry center in England. (It is reported that the black kite (the male) refused female black kites but mated with two female red kites.)

Hybridization between the endemic Cuban Crocodile (Crocodilus rhombifer) and the widely distributed American Crocodile (Crocodilus acutus) is causing conservation problems for the former species as a threat to is genetic integrity. [2]

Blood parrot cichlid, which is probably created by crossing a Gold Severum and a Midas Cichlid or Red Devil Cichlid