Hybrid animals?!?

Question

i have a question...does anybody else know a hybrid animal that is real?for example,a liger.it's a mix of a lion and a tiger.it's real.i want real hybrids of animals.and give a link

it's an emergency.need it on school.

Answer 1

The Tigon is a cross between a male Tiger and a female Lion.

I don't have any links, but I can explain if you'd like.

Though you may be thinking "That's what a Liger is..." you would be wrong. A Liger is a cross between a Male Lion and a female Tiger.

It may not seem like a big change, but it's more than meets the eye. There are imprinted genes in both the Tiger and Lion species that only appear in their hybrid offspring, which is why the Liger is the largest cat on the planet.

Male Ligers and Tigons are impotent and are incapable of bearing offspring, however females can be impregnated by Tiger and Lion alike.

Tigons do not generally get larger than their largest parent, it is assumed that the imprinted gene for increased growth is only present male Lion DNA and not present in Tiger DNA.

Tigons are more rare today than they have been in the past; this is thought to be merely a trend in mating rituals passed on through genes and that the Tigons will eventually repopulate. For more information on this, just search out Tiger and Lion mating rituals. They are more different than one would think.

Hope this helps, take care.

Answer 2

Don't you kids have wikipedia anymore?

Answer 3

A cross between a gharial and a crocodile is called a crocorial.

A cross between a horse and a donkey is called a mule.

A cross between a dog and a wolf is called -- he he he Phantom's Devil

A cross between a homo erectus and a homo sapiens is called an Irishman. Apologies to my Irish girlfriend.

Answer 4

There are many hybrid animals, the most famous of which is the mule, a cross between a male donkey and female horse. The offspring of a male horse and female donkey is called a hinny.

You mentioned ligers, which are the offspring of a male lion and female tiger, and there are also tigons - the offspring of a male tiger and female lion.

The Bengal cat is the result of breeding a domestic cat with the leopard cat. There are wolf-dog hybrids, coyote-dog hybrids (coydogs), camel-llama hybrids (camas), whale-dolphin hybrids (wholphins), zebra-donkey hybrids (zeedonks), leopard-lion hybrids (leopons), jaguar-leopard hybrids (jaguleps) and many more.

The majority of hybrids are sterile, a result of the parent species having different numbers of chromosomes. Occasionally a female will be fertile - this has happened in mules and ligers, for example - but this is almost unheard of in males. If two different species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, it shows that they are very closely related. Wolf-dog hybrids are an example of this - the dog is the direct descendant of the wolf, and the two are still so close genetically that their offspring are themselves able to breed.

Answer 5

Tigon

Liger

Mule

Zebra/horse cross

Wolf/dog hybrid (although that doesn't really count as they are the same genetic makeup)

coydog (coyote dog hybrid)

sandwhooper (sandhill / whooping crane hybrid - I used to work with one at the international crane foundation - I can tell you more about these if you want)

Kangaby (kangaroo / walaby hybrid)

Grey/black squirrel hybrid (they're in my yard)

Cerval/domestic cat cross

Most hybrids are infertile.  Because of the mixing of different genetic make-ups, the chromozomes get all screwed up and any eggs or sperm that are produced are unable to support life.

The closer you get genetically, the more often there are hybrids (african/asian elephants kept in Zoos, for example), the farther away you get, the harder it is to create a cross successfully.

Answer 6

Try the following links by clicking on them-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_anim...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_anim...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_hybrid