【Source: Night's Watch on the Wall ID: watcher_on_the_wall】
Legends and stories around the world are indispensable to gods, birds and beasts, they are often a synthesis of different creatures, take the Chinese national totem dragon, its image includes antlers, bull's head, donkey's mouth, shrimp eyes, elephant ears, fish scales, human whiskers, snake belly, phoenix foot. The various PS gods have inserted imaginary wings into genes and created countless hybrid creatures out of thin air.
But the following 18 kinds of mixed race children in the animal kingdom are all real! And most of them are the product of natural mating, and it is difficult to imagine what wonderful creatures humans will make with the advancement of genetic engineering.
Lion Tiger = Male Lion + Female Tiger
Although it is rumored that there are wild lions and tigers in nature, the lions and tigers that can be confirmed so far are all cross-bred in artificial environments. They grow fast and are the largest cats in the world. The largest lion tiger weighs 410 kg.
Tiger lion = male tiger + female lion
OK, both lions and tigers have reproductive abilities, guess what their offspring are called? That's right, Lion Lion Tiger, Lion Tiger Lion, Tiger Lion Tiger tiger and Tiger Tiger Lion (my tongue is knotted... ）
Savannah cat = African serval cat + domestic cat
This cat is the product of mating male and female cats, they have a gentle personality, like dogs, like wagging their tails, holding frisbees, and are not afraid of water... The only downside is that it is very! expensive!
Leopard lion = male leopard + female lion
Wild leopard lions have not yet been found in nature, only artificially bred individuals.
Jaguar Lion = Jaguar + Lion
The reproductive ability of felines completely impressed me, lions and tigers are basically pediatrics, and the real ghost animals are male leopard lions + female lion (American) leopard = Leoligulor
Zebra = zebra + horse
Like cats, equine animals are very chaotic, zebras can mate with the first generation of other horses of the opposite sex, and the offspring are collectively called zebroid. Above this is a zebra horse, as well as a class donkey (see below), a donkey zebra...
Class donkey = zebra + donkey
Kneeling for the scientists... Fortunately, the spotted donkey, like the mule, has no fertility, otherwise humans would have lost their naming ability very quickly.
Donkey mule = stallion + female donkey
In addition to the most common mule, the horse mule (male donkey + mare), there are also donkey mules that are one size smaller. Scientists are still debating whether this discrepancy is genetically caused, or whether the mother donkey's womb is smaller than the mare's (it's a shame that I didn't achieve my childhood dream of becoming a scientist...). ）
Beefalo = bull + female American bison
This hybrid cattle are 200 years old, they are healthier than regular domestic cattle, and grazing has less ecological impact. Unfortunately, with years of artificial breeding, there are only four herds of American bison left in nature that are not genetically contaminated with domestic cattle.
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Similarly, this hybrid cattle are also healthier and less susceptible to disease than domestic cattle. But for fear that hybrid cattle would contaminate the genetic pools of European bison, the project was suspended, and only Poland is still conducting small-scale breeding experiments.
Calf = yak + cattle
Calves have higher meat and milk yields, and their service capacity is close to that of yaks. Like the European and American bison, the yak gene pools of the Qinghai-Tibet and Mongolian plateaus are no longer pure.
Goat = goat + sheep
Yes, you guessed it right, and sheep. But whether it's a goat or a goat, it's not easy to give birth to one of the offspring of this cross-genus hybrid (sheep genus, 54 chromosomes and goat genus, 60 chromosomes) in most of the stillbirths. This is not the same as the chimera of goat and sheep embryos.
Camel mud horse = male camel + female alpaca
This variety is only 17 years old and was originally the product of artificial insemination in Dubai's breeding gardens. So far, only 5 heads have been bred. In fact, if it is introduced to China, it can have a more down-to-earth name, Camel Mud Horse.
Little Wolf Wolf (such a cute name must have been taken by me) = coyote + wolf
Coyotes, also known as the North American Wolf, are more primitive than their close relative, the gray wolf. North American wolves mate with gray wolves, eastern wolves, red wolves, and the wolf cubs born are naturally called little wolves ~ binggo, and there are indeed wolf wolves...
Cetacean = male or false killer whale + female bottlenose dolphin
Pseudo-killer whales actually belong to the dolphin family under the suborder Toothed Whale, so in theory, cetaceans should be easier to reproduce. But in reality, they are very rare. The first cetacean was born in Tokyo and survived only 200 days; currently only hawaii has one in Ocean Park.
Annu whale (I made it up blindly) = narwhal + beluga whale
Both species belong to the same horned cetacean family, which also grow in the waters near the Arctic Circle, and their hybrid offspring are mostly active in the North Atlantic. Watch it laugh so kawaii, I want to hear what its monologue says.
Mulard = male green-headed wild duck (or domesticated Peking duck) + female wart-nosed perch duck
Ducks of these two different genera are like horses and donkeys, and the offspring born cannot be bred for food. Most of the ingredients for the famous French dish foie gras actually come from this hybrid duck, not the goose.
Grizzly polar bear = male grizzly bear + female polar bear
Yes, there are also polar grizzly bears (male polar bears + female grizzly bears), and what they have in common seems to be: they look dirty... Grizzly bears and polar bears are genetically close and have overlapping habitats, but grizzly polar bears in nature are rare, possibly because they have a tendency to avoid each other. In fact, I guess it's probably a polar bear that the grizzly bear is dirty: mud play Kai...
The above are all mixed-race stars in the animal kingdom, who do you think has a higher appearance?
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