Animal crossbreeding has been in practice for over 100 years. The reasons for this practice vary for each researcher/sponsor, likewise, the results. Some Researchers out of pure quest to better our life and protect the particular animal specie, dedicate their life into the research, while others do not have any genuine reason for doing so. Likewise, the outcome has come in various forms, depending on how you want to view it.A hybrid that comes as dangerous to some would be viewed as weapon by another party.

Join me on this trip into the curious mind of man and what they have created:

Ref:list25,wikipedia and Khunzpedia

1) THE LIGER
The liger is the world’s biggest Cat at almost 12ft tall on its hind legs and weigh twice the weight of a wild lion or tiger.
Liger is the hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. They enjoy swimming, which is a characteristic of tigers, and are very sociable like lions. Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species.

2) THE TIGON
A tigon or tiglon is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion (Panthera leo). Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. The tigon is not currently as common as the converse hybrid, the liger, but in 1961, Gerald Iles wrote that he had been able to obtain three tigons, but he had never seen a liger.
The tigon's genome includes genetic components of both parents, thus they can exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots—lion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father. Any mane that a male tigon may have will appear shorter and less noticeable than a lion's mane and is closer in type to the ruff of a male tiger. It is a common misconception that tigons are smaller than lions or tigers. They do not exceed the size of their parent species because they inherit growth-inhibitory genes from the lioness mother, but they do not exhibit any kind of dwarfism or miniaturization; they often weigh around 180 kilograms.

3) THE KILLER BEE
This is the hybrid offspring of European honey bee and the African bee .The Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees, but instead the offspring became even more aggressive and highly defensive bees which escaped into the wild in Brazil in 1957. Since then, they have spread throughout all South, Central and North America.

4) LILIGER
The liliger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a ligress (Panthera leo × Panthera tigris). The first hybrid was born at the Hellabrunn Zoo in 1943.
According to Wild Cats of the World (1975) by C. A. W. Guggisberg, ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile, but in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an 'Island' tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The female cub, though of delicate health, was raised to adulthood.
In September 2012, the Russian Novosibirsk Zoo announced the birth of a "liliger" named Kiara. Kiara was born to 8-year-old female liger Zita and male African lion Sam. In accordance with Haldane's rule, male tigons and ligers are sterile, but female hybrids can produce cubs. On May 16, 2013 the same couple produced three more female liligers: Luna, Sandra, and Eva.
A liliger was born in the United States from a male lion named Simba and a female liger named Akaria at 6:18 am on November 29, 2013 at The Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Foundation in Oklahoma. At approximately 3 am on November 30, 2013, the ligress gave birth to two more cubs.

5) HINNY
The converse hybrid between donkey and horse, the hinny is the offspring of a horse stallion and a jenny donkey. Like mules, hinnies come in many sizes but they are much rarer than mules as jennies and stallions can be choosier about their mates than horse mares and donkey jacks and even if they do cooperate, female donkeys are less likely to conceive when bred to a horse.

6) CAMA
The cama is a hybrid between a male dromedary camel and a female llama, and has been produced via artificial insemination at the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai. The first cama was born on January 14, 1998. The aim was to create an animal capable of higher wool production than the llama, with the size, strength and cooperative temperament of a camel.

7) JAGLION
Also known as jaguon, the jaglion is the offspring between a male jaguar and a female lion. This mounted specimen is on display at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Hertfordshire, England. It has the lion’s background color, brown, jaguar-like rosettes and the powerful build of the jaguar.

ZONKEY
The Zonkey is a hybrid animal that is created by cross-breeding a male Zebra and female Donkey, as one that has a male Donkey and female Zebra parents is known as a Zedonk. Like many other animal hybrids around the world including the Mule and the Liger, however, the Zonkey is a sterile creature meaning that it cannot produce offspring of its own. Unlike the Liger though, it is actually quite possible for Zonkeys to live in the wild as Zebras and Donkeys are naturally found in close proximity to one another in parts of Africa. Although they are very rare, cases of wild Zonkeys have been reported but the majority of them today are found in zoos around the world and are bred as tourist attractions.

9) RHINO
Interspecific hybridization has been confirmed between the black and the white rhinoceros. New studies suggest it is possible that these species are kept separate by geographical boundaries rather than genetic differences. Native to Africa, the black rhino is classified as critically endangered and three of its subspecies were already declared extinct.

10) LEOPON
A leopon is a hybrid resulting from the crossing of a male leopard with a lioness. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards. These hybrids are produced in captivity and are unlikely to occur in the wild.[1]
The first documented leopon was bred at Kolhapur, India, in 1910. Its skin was sent to Reginald Innes Pocock by Walter Samuel Millard, the Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society. It was a cross between a large leopard and a lioness. Two cubs were born, one of which died aged 2.5 months, and the other was still living when Pocock described it in 1912. Pocock wrote that it was spotted like a leopard, but that the spots on its sides were smaller and closer set than those of an Indian leopard and were brown and indistinct like the fading spots of a juvenile lion. The spots on the head, spine, belly and legs were black and distinct. The tail was spotted on the topside and striped underneath and had a blackish tip with longer hairs. The underside was dirty white, the ears were fawn and had a broad black bar but did not have the white spot found in leopards.

Cool

Awesome

very interesting facts.

nice read, things like this should be making fp not the selfies of a thot

What of a "Zorse" (hybrid of Zebra and Horse) OP?
Also, aren't there any sea creatures or aves that fall in this category?

Interesting facts BTW!!!!



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biosystech:
What of a "Zorse" (hybrid of Zebra and Horse) OP?
Also, aren't there any sea creatures or aves that fall in this category?

Interesting facts BTW!!!!



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Zorse, zebonkey, zedonk, zenkey, zebra mule, zonkey, and zebmule are all known as Zebroids and they are offspring of any cross between zebra and other equine (horse, donkey and zebra).

There is hybridization of a female Bottlenose Dolphin and a male False Killer Whale. However false killer whale are also part of the dolphin family, same as Orca the largest of the dolphin family and often called the killer whale.

Broiler is an example of bird hybrid. Before the development of modern commercial meat breeds, broilers were mostly young male chickens culled from farm flocks. Pedigree breeding began around 1916. A hybrid variety of chicken was produced from a cross of a male of a naturally double-breasted Cornish strain and a female of a tall, large-boned strain of white Plymouth Rocks. This first attempt at a hybrid meat breed was introduced in the 1930s and became dominant in the 1960s. The original hybrid was plagued by problems of low fertility, slow growth and disease susceptibility.
Modern broilers have become very different from the Cornish/Rock hybrid. As an example, Donald Shaver began gathering breeding stock for a broiler program in 1950.The breeds crossed are Cornish Game, Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire, Langshans, Jersey Black Giant and Brahmas . A white feathered female line was purchased from Cobb. A full scale breeding program was commenced in 1958, with commercial shipments in Canada and the US in 1959 and in Europe in 1963.

Wow,very educative

This should be on FP

healthserve:
This should be on FP

It won't

Unless Oups includes Hybrids of Lalasticlala pets"SNAKES"

MrBONE2:

It won't

Unless Oups includes Hybrids of Lalasticlala pets"SNAKES"

Hahahahaha. I think that guy has a snake obsession though. This is highly informative and we should encourage learning and critical reasoning with educative threads on the FP