Hybrid Animals You Didn't Know Existed
By
Michael Avery in
Nature
On 27th September 2016
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.
#1 Tigons are born when a male tiger mates with a female lion.
They can have both tiger stripes and lion spots.
#2 Ligers are the result of a male lion breeding with a female tiger.
#3 A grolar bear is a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly.
#4 Jaglions are extremely rare, as jaguars and lions live on separate continents. But in an Ontario zoo, two of these unusual animals were born.
#5 Beef ranchers crossed buffalo and cattle to create the Beefalo, which has a leaner meat than beef.
#6 A coywolf is the hybrid result of a coyote and a wolf mating.
#7 When a narwhal and beluga mate, they create the very strange-looking narluga.
#8 The rare zebroid is the result of a zebra mating with any other kind of equine animal.
