Species and Hybrids

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Species and Hybrids
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What is a species?

• A species is a group of organisms which can
  breed and produce fertile offspring.

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Hybrids

• Sometimes animals of different species mate and
  produce offspring which are not fertile

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Mule

• Cross between a horse and a donkey.

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Liger
Offspring of a male lion and female tiger.
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Liger
Offspring of a male lion and female tiger.
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Tigon

• Cross between female lion and male tiger.

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Liger

• Ligers are the cross of a male lion and a
  female tiger, and they are the largest of all
  living cats and felines. Their massive size may
  be a result of imprinted genes which are not
  fully expressed in their parents, but are left
  unchecked when the two different species mate.
  Some female ligers can grow to 10 feet in length
  and weigh more than 700 pounds. Ligers are
  distinct from tigons, which come from a female
  lion and male tiger. Various other big cat
  hybrids have been created too, including leopons
  (a leopard and a lion mix), jaguleps (a jaguar
  and leopard mix), and even lijaguleps (a lion and
  jagulep mix).

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Zorse

• Cross between a zerbra and a horse.

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What do you called a cross between a zebra and a
donkey?!
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Zonkey

• Cross between a zerbra and a donkey.

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What do you called a cross between a whale and a
dolphin?!
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Wholphin

• A cross between a false killer whale and an
  Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wholphins are
  hybrids that have been reported to exist in the
  wild. There are currently two in captivity, both
  at Sea Life Park in Hawaii. The wholphins size,
  color and shape are intermediate between the
  parent species. Even their number of teeth is
  mixed a bottlenose has 88 teeth, a false killer
  whale has 44 teeth, and a wholphin has 66.

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What do you called a cross between a camel and a
lama?!
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Cama

• A cama is a hybrid of two animals from
  different worlds camels from Asia, and llamas
  from South America. The two species exhibit many
  differences, but camels and llamas are both
  camelids descended from a common ancestor that
  evolved in North America during the Palaeogene
  period. Camas were produced via artificial
  insemination to create an animal with the size
  and strength of the camel, but the more
  cooperative temperament of the llama.

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What do you called a cross between a cow and a
buffalo?!
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Beefalo

• Beefalo are the fertile offspring of domestic
  cattle and American bison.

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What do you called a cross between a grizzly and
a polar bear?!
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Grolar Bear

• The offspring of a grizzly bear and a polar
  bear, a grolar bear is one beast you dont want
  to meet in the woods. Interestingly, unlike many
  hybrid animals, grolar bears are known to occur
  naturally in the wild. Some experts predict that
  polar bears may be driven to breed with grizzly
  bears at an increased frequency due to global
  warming, and the fact that polar bears are being
  forced from their natural habitats on the polar
  ice.

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• Clockwise A female hybrid, male hybrid, polar
  bear and brown bear.

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Big Cat Hybrids
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Jaglion
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• Species
• A species is a group of organisms which can
  interbreed and produce fertile offspring.