7 Amazing Hybrid Animals Hybrid animals may sound like science fiction, but they're not. Hybrids are typically the topic of our own secret dreams. Said dreams usually revolve around owning a gorilladillo (a cross between a gorilla and an armadillo). You wouldn't think that the animals below are real, but there are many living examples of such creatures. Unfortunately, most (not all) hybrids end up being sterile so they cannot be bred even further. That doesn't mean we can't clone an army of Ligers, though! 1. Savannah Cat A Savannah cat is a cross between a domestic cat and the serval, a medium-sized, large-eared wild African cat. The unusual cross became popular among breeders at the end of the 1990s, and in 2001 the International Cat Association accepted it as a new registered breed. A Bengal breeder, Judee Frank, crossbred a male serval, belonging to Suzi Woods, with a Siamese (domestic cat) to produce the first Savannah cat (named Savannah) on April 7, 1986. 2. Liger The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris). Thus, the liger has parents of the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon. While the Siberian tiger is the largest pure sub-species, ligers are believed to be the largest of all known extant felines. Ligers exist only in captivity or zoos because the habitats of the parental species do not overlap in the wild. 3. Leopon A leopon is a hybrid resulting from the crossing of a male leopard with a lioness. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards. These hybrids are produced in captivity and are unlikely to occur in the wild. The first documented leopon was bred at Kolhapur, India in 1910. Its skin was sent to Reginald Innes Pocock by Walter Samuel Millard, the Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society. 4. Grolar Bear A grolar bear is a rare ursid hybrid between Grizzly and polar bear 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 near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic. With many suspected sightings and three confirmed cases, theories of how such hybrids might naturally occur have become more than hypothetical. 5. Wholphin A wholphin or wolphin is an extremely rare hybrid born from a mating of a female common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with a male false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). The name implies a hybrid of whale and dolphin, although taxonomically, both are within the "oceanic dolphin" family, which is within the "toothed whale" suborder. The first recorded wholphin was born in a Tokyo SeaWorld, but he died after 200 days. The first wholphin in the United States and the first to survive was Kekaimalu, born at Sea Life Park in Hawaii on May 15, 1985; her name means "from the peaceful ocean". 6. Sheep-goat Sometimes called a geep or shoat in popular media, is the hybrid offspring of a sheep and a goat. Although sheep and goats seem similar and can be mated, they belong to different genera in the subfamily Caprinae of the family Bovidae. Sheep belong to the genus Ovis and have 54 chromosomes, while goats belong to the genus Capra and have 60 chromosomes. Despite widespread shared pasturing of goats and sheep, hybrids are very rare, indicating the genetic distance between the two species. 7. Zebroid A zebroid (also zedonk, zorse, zebra mule, zonkey, and zebmule) 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 dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century. Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works. Visit our Channel for Top Attractions: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChallengeYourBrain Please Subscribe to our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ChallengeYourBrain Download this music for FREE: http://bit.ly/MeizongDawnofLight This track's license, Creative Commons Attribution, requires attribution. If you use this song in a video, cite the creator using the info below: Dawn of Light (Original Mix) by Meizong is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. http://bit.ly/MeizongDawnofLight https://youtu.be/v5J4K1ewoFw Meizong Social Links: https://soundcloud.com/dj-meizong https://www.facebook.com/MeizongOfficial https://twitter.com/MrMeizong More info about the license: http://bit.ly/CreativeCommonsAttribution Visit Music For Monetize Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MusicForMonetize

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