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16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:43pm On Feb 08, 2017
Genetic hybrids in the animal world exist when animals of differing species create offspring together. There are a long list of hybrids from various animal families, including:

*Felid hybrids

*Equid hybrids

*Cetacean hybrids

The reason that a lot of people aren’t aware of the more obscure animal hybrids is because they tend to be infertile. However, that doesn’t mean some strange hybrid animals don’t exist.

Here are 16 hybrid animals that you probably didn’t know existed.


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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:45pm On Feb 08, 2017
1. A tigon is the result of a male tiger and female lion mating. Tigons exhibit visible characteristics of both parents, some having both spots from the mother and stripes from the father.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:46pm On Feb 08, 2017
2. A grolar bear, or ‘pizzly bear,’ is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred in the wild and in captivity. The hybrid animal is a cross between polar and brown bears. While they appear to be a split between the two animals, they are closer to polar bears behaviorally.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:48pm On Feb 08, 2017
3. Beefalo or cattalo are the cross between buffalo and cows. Accidental crosses were noticed as long ago as 1749, but the breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:49pm On Feb 08, 2017
4. Ligers are the offspring of male lions and female tigers and are the largest of all known extant felines. Ligers only exist in captivity where they are deliberately bred as the habitats of lions and tigers do not overlap in the wild.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:52pm On Feb 08, 2017
5. Jaglions are the incredibly rare occurrence when jaguars and lions mate. Two jaglions were born in 2006 at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary in Barrie, Ontario as the result of a close friendship between the two species unintended by the zoo.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:54pm On Feb 08, 2017
6. Narlugas are the offspring of narwhals and belugas. Narwhals and belugas are the only two members of the monodontidae family of whales, which is why they are able to crossbreed, but sightings are rare.



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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:55pm On Feb 08, 2017
7. Hinnies are the product of a male donkey and afemale horse, which make them basically reverse mules. However, hinnies are slightly smaller and far less common than mules.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:56pm On Feb 08, 2017
8. The coywolf or woyote is a hybrid descended from coyotes and gray wolves. They tend to be larger than coyotes, but smaller than wolves, sharing behavioral characteristics of both species.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by Nobody: 9:57pm On Feb 08, 2017
wtf... End time hybrid.. shocked shocked

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:57pm On Feb 08, 2017
9. Zebroids are the offspring of a zebra and any other equine. While zebroids are rare, they have been around for a long time, even Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 9:58pm On Feb 08, 2017
10. A wholphin is the extremely rare mix of a female common bottlenose dolphin and a male false killer whale. Wholphins are very intermediate between both parents when it comesto their characteristics. Bottlenose dolphins have 88 teeth and false killer whales have about 44, which ends up making the wholphin have 66.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:00pm On Feb 08, 2017
11. The hybrid between cows and wild yaks creates either a dzo if the offspring is male or a dzomo if female. They exist mostly in Tibet and Mongolia and are both stronger and larger than cows and yaks.


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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:01pm On Feb 08, 2017
12. Savannah cats are a cross between a serval and a domestic cat. They can grow quite large, weighing up to 25 pounds and behave strangely more like dogs.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:02pm On Feb 08, 2017
13. A cama is a cross between a male dromedary camel and a female llama. The cama didn’t exist until 1998 when it was produced via artificial insemination with the goal of making the animal more capable of higher wool production.

Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by rottennaija(m): 10:03pm On Feb 08, 2017
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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:03pm On Feb 08, 2017
14. Geeps are the hybrid offspring of a sheep and a goat. While the two species seem similar, they are very different and rarely occur naturally. Most hybrids between sheep and goats die while they’re still in embryo form. ‘Sheep-goat chimera’ is an animal that has been artificially produced bycombining embryos of the two animals.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:04pm On Feb 08, 2017
15. Mulards are the hybrid offspring of Pekin and muscovy ducks. Due to muscovies having a tendency to intermingle other domestic duck breeds, interbreeding does occur. However, mulards are mostly commercially produced on farms for meat and foie gras.

Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by frostland(m): 10:04pm On Feb 08, 2017
wow I love the liger it looks big, hope they are nt tinking of crossing man and any wild animals

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by josephine123: 10:04pm On Feb 08, 2017
nice one op
Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by Nobody: 10:05pm On Feb 08, 2017
Kontinuu
Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by DeeCherry(f): 10:07pm On Feb 08, 2017
16. The blacktip shark hybrid is the result of an Australian blacktip shark mating with the common blacktip. This shark was discovered recently and until then, there were no known hybrid shark species.

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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by whitecloth: 10:10pm On Feb 08, 2017
INTERESTING
Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by Nobody: 11:34pm On Feb 08, 2017
An unusual, rare, peculiar hybrid between a banana and orange produces a money-miss-road, trash-talking, hoe-husband president

Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by uckennety(m): 1:15am On Feb 09, 2017
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Re: 16 Unusual And Rare Hybrid Animals by Nobody: 6:53am On Feb 09, 2017
Wow,i never knew they such animal hybrid. nl increasing my knowledge since...

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