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Twisted Nature: Craziest Animal Hybrids
Published by Amit Goyal in Animal
September 29, 2008
Did you know that animals called camas, ligers, tigons or zorses exist? They do. They’ve been around for as long as man has, although they’re extremely rare. This list of hybrids will have you flipping through your biology books!
Remember those ancient riddles? They went something like,
“What would you get if you crossed a chicken and a centipede?”
Drumsticks for everyone!
Ah yes, the wondrous human intellect. What’s ever more wondrous, is the biological equivalents of those riddles…
What would you get if you crossed a horse and a donkey?!
A Hinny
Hinny – Horse(M) + Donkey(F)
Hinnies are the offspring of a male horse (stallion) and a female donkey (jenny). The hinny is sterile. Hinnies are similar to mules in that they are generally more intelligent than horses, and more cooperative than donkeys. Both are also healthier and less expensive to feed and maintain than horses. This is a trait these hybrids get from their donkey heritage. The donkey is a notoriously hardy creature that, in the wild, survives on a harsh diet in a desert environment.
The male hinny can and will mate, but the emission is not fertile. Male hinnies are usually castrated to help control their behavior by eliminating their interest in females.
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Cant wait to see the falcon and duck combo :p
COOL!!
Cool article, well put together
nice:)
I like the Zorse. Interesting article. Thank you for sharing this with us. I guess a lion and a horse would not work out well.
Wow, this was something wonderful to read and see the pics. Thank you for doing such a superlative job on both.
hilarious!!
Wow! Interesting! Great job! I never thought of this subject before and it took me by surprise. Very creative!
WOW!!! im gonna go google for some more right now
These are bizarre. Very cool
Nicely researched. I loved the zorse. The cama was cute small but whatever does it look like full grown?
That’s a mature Cama! The growth genes are obtained from the llama and hence get suppressed..
More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cama_(animal)
My poodle “got it on” with a chiuahua – the result – 3 Choodles.
Thanks for sharing.
AWESOME!! ‘STUMBLE’d
Why? why why why why why? Oh well, good article.
don’t forget the lion + tiger = “Liger”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59BXI
It’s on the second page my man,
http://www.purpleslinky.com/Humor/Animal/Twisted-Nature-Craziest-Animal-Hybrids.276907/2
rofl at post 1 by shelly
Wouldn’t the horse and donkey be a honkey?
Amazing. The Cama is so cute.
I gotta agree with Shelly – to an extent. I was thinking the mixing of a Pheasant and a duck…. but Falcons work, too. And HINNY – should definitely be named HONKY. That way I could tell all my black friends that I have 2 pet honkies in my backyard. he he heee
This is a great article. Thank you for sharing. I love it! Jax
chicken & duck would be nice a chuck
All you can eat!
hey that polar bear thing was a lie because a grizzly bear is a
polar bear its just that the grizzly bears went in to colder places and adapted to the cold.
did not read it but awsome pictures
Interesting, but the article about the Cama has an error. Llamas have the same foot structure as a camel, not a cloven hoof. It is a tough but flexible pad with sharp tonails, just like the camel. A camel’s foot is much wider than a llamas, however, enabling it to more easily travel across loose sand (or for the Bactrian camel, snow).
Also, as far as a duck-falcon hybrid, that would not be possible without extensive laboratory work. The only animals that can hybreed naturally are animals which belong to the same Family, what the Bible refers to as a kind. Chickens, guineas and peacocks, dogs, wolves, and coyotes, horses, zebras, and donkeys, camels, llamas, and alpacas, etc. Fertility is determined by choromosonal compatibility. (Horses have 64, donkeys have 62, mules have 63 resulting in sterility.)
the grolar bear thing is not a lie, jackass. yes, far enough back, they had a common ancestor, but they are completely different species. which have now mated to make another. i’m writing a research paper on it now. grizzly bears are NOT polar bears, they don’t even have the same bone structure, let alone all the obvious physical characteristics. not even close to the same bear! well… close enough for viable offspring, but you can’t call them the same thing!!!