Comments on: What Are All The Animal Hybrids?

By: brandonb

brandonb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:32:45 +0000

Answering this question is, well, impossible. Many hybrids, like those you listed, can be forced by humans. Many, on the other hand, are natural. Because natural hybrids are rare, it is very unlikely they have all been documented.
Off the top of my head:
Tiger trout (brook/rainbow trout)
Tiger muskie (northern pike and muskie)
Mule deer/whitetailed deer
Loggerhead/hawksbill sea turtle (I found one of these once)
grey wolf and domestic dog
red wolf and coyote
Mallard and black duck
Mallard and pintail

By: fucose_m

fucose_m — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:47:51 +0000

Dennis Rodman
Rosie ODonnell
Ted Kennedy
Several birds form hybrids.

By: Ahdunno

Ahdunno — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:26:10 +0000

Mule

By: Professor Armitage

Professor Armitage — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:29:42 +0000

I know there’s a bee-wasp hybrid but I can’t for the life of me remember which one it is. It could be the yellow jacket, which is officially considered a wasp but it has the yellow circles from a certain yellow and black wasp, and orange circles too, presumably from the honey bee.

By: ginny gray

ginny gray — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:39:53 +0000

There are also polar bear/brown bear hybrids, as well as hybrids between Asian and African elephants. These elephant hybrids are of exceptional interest because this hybridization is not only across species but across GENUS. Artificial processes have produced geeps and cammas. Geeps are a cross between goats and sheep, and cammas are crosses between llamas and camels. Hybrids between one-humped dromedaries and two-humped Bactrian camels also exist. Additionally beefalo are crosses between cattle and American bison, coydogs and coywolves are crosses between coyotes and dogs or wolves, and wolf-dogs are self explanitory. Leopons are leopard/lion crosses, and jaglions are jaguar/lion crosses. Pumapards are the result of cougar and leopard matings. Caracals and servals (both are long-legged african cats) can also hybridize. Domestic cats can hybridize with most small wild cat species. There are also numerous intraspecies hybrids, such as Amur/Bengal tigers and Borneo/Sumatran orangutans. Many closely related parrot species also hybridize, as well as closely related frog species, and closely related fish species. Bass frequently hybridize in the wild, and mallard ducks mate with numerous duck species. Chinese geese, greylag geese, and domestic geese need no captive situations to hybridize, as well. Nor do wild boars and domestic pigs. Whitetail deer have been known to hybridize with mule deer. Most tragelaphines (African spiral-horned antelope) hybridize frequently in captivity. The usual offspring are lesser kudu/sitatunga, lesser kudu/bushbuck, sitatunga/bushbuck, and sitatunga/bongo. The acheivement of producing an elu (eland/greater kudu cross) was especially important. Elands can hybridize with cattle, so the elu exposed the close relationship antelope have with cows. Spider monkeys can also hybridize between species. Well, those are all the hybrids I can think of right now. I hope that helps! ^_^