Check out these 10 awesome hybrid animals! Some
are naturally occuring, while others have been bred. Includes wonders
like the Zebroid, Liger, Beefalo, Leopon among others!
A
zebroid (also zebra mule and zebrule) is the offspring of any cross
between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In
most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and
zebra mare, called a zebra hinny, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have
been bred since the 19th century.The zebroid showed in the picture
above, Eclyse, is a very unusual one, because of her coloring. With her
über distinct makings, it's really hard not think she's a Photoshop
mock-up.
Liger = Lion + Tiger
The
liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a
female Panthera tigris (Tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera
tigris × Panthera leo. A liger resembles a giant lion with diffused
stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian
Tiger is the largest pure sub-species. Like tigers, but unlike lions,
ligers enjoy swimming. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger
and a female lion is called a tigon.
Beefalo = Buffalo + Cow
Cama = Camel + Llama
This
hybrid animal, the product of breeding a llama and a camel, has been
the only creature of this kind since her birth in 1995. Camas are
humpless and have the long fluffy coat of a llama. Their ears are half
way in length between camels and llamas, but they have the strong,
desert-ready legs of a camel.
Leopon = Leopard + Lion
The
Leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard with a female lion. The
head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the
body carries similarities to leopards. The first documented leopon was
bred at Kolhapur, India in 1910.
Savannah = Serval + Domestic Cat
The
Savannah Cat is created by breeding an African Wild Cat, called a
Serval and a domestic cat, usually an exotic looking domestic cat such
as a Bengal, Oriental Shorthair, Egyptian Mau, or a Serengeti's. The
offspring created by this combination are large domestic.
Grizzly Polar = Polar Bear + Brown Bear
Also
known as Grolar Bear, this bear hybrid is a rare ursid hybrid that has
occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of
this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a
strange-looking bear that had been shot on Banks Island in the Canadian
arctic.
A number of polar bear hybrids are described as Ursid
hybrids, a term that designates any hybrid of two species within the
Ursidae family. Polar bear hybrids with Grizzly bears have been reported
and shot, but DNA techniques were not available to verify the bears'
ancestry.
Toast of Botswana = Sheep + Goat
An
unusual case of a sheep-goat hybrid was reported by veterinarians in
Botswana in 2000, called the "Toast of Botswana". The animal was born
naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep that were
kept together.
The hybrid was intermediate between the two parent
species in type. It had a coarse outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long
goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body. Although infertile, the
hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and does when they
were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He
was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a
nuisance.
Blood parrot = Midas Cichild + Red Devil fish
The
Blood parrot (also known as bloody parrot and blood parrotfish) is a
hybrid cichlid. The fish was first created in Taiwan in around 1986. Its
parentage is unknown, but the most commonly speculated pairings are
midas cichlid with the redhead cichlid. This hybrid cichlid has various
anatomical deformities, one of the most obvious, and also deadly,
deformities is its mouth, which only has very narrow vertical opening.
This makes blood parrot very hard to feed. Many die eventually because
of this. Cichlid enthusiasts have called for their removal from the
market and organized boycotts against pet stores that sell them.
Hybrid Pheasant = Golden + Amherst Pheasant
The
Golden Pheasant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady
Amherst's Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors
from its parents.
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