What Is The Most Unusual (but Viable) Hybrid Animal?
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?
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An Indian and an African elephant produced a calf in Chester zoo.
These would all produce offspring but not all would be able to breed themselves..
Lion + Tiger.
Horse+ Donkey
Horse + Zebra,
Zebra + Donkey.
Crocodile + Alligator.
Jaguar + Leopard.
Llama + Guanaco
Llama +Alpaka
Guanaco + Vicuña
Giraffe + Okapi
Camel + Dromedary.
A chimera has been born a cross between a goat and a sheep, a geep.
Some might not want to breed naturally but it would be possible to perform artificial insemination ..but to what purpose?
Lion/Tiger,Donkey/Zebra,these have all ready produced
young.
A Camel / Llama crossbred
What you seem to be forgetting is that a dog is a dog….the same species even though they are different breeds they are still the same genetically. Other animals cannot cross breed unless they are closely related…such as a tiger and lion (both in the genus, Panthera). However, when a hybrid is produced it is always sterile.
In this day and age,anything I suppose but its wether they would be morally and socially accepted xxx
Well that all depends on what you mean by viable. If you mean that the offspring lives through birth and beyond, then I would have to say the oddest mix I ever saw was a coon/cat. It was born to a female cat a friend of mine had, my friend THOUGHT it got into a fight with the coon, and was quarenteened for a couple of weeks, they found out she turn up pregnant, and the thing that was born was kinda weird looking. The muscle structure was a lot like a coon, but the range of motion was restricted, and it didn’t have “hands” the way a coon does. They ended up having to put the animal down when it started reaching maturity, because it was VERY agressive, and attacked just about everything that came near it.
If you mean by “viable” , an offspring capable of producing offspring (not born sterile) then the oddest mix would have to be a Liger, which is a Lion/Tiger hybrid, with the Lion as the father and Tiger as the mum. (the reverse would be a “Tion”)
Well, an interesting fish hybrid is the Parrot Cichlidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Parro…
It is a cross between two different species, of which the resulting hybrid is then crossed with another species, and the resultant parrot cichlid is viable – it can breed.
Ashley
The zeborilla!
It would have to be the jackalope in the Western US.