16 Crossbred Animals You Didn’t Know Existed

By Qunki Team | animals and pets

Bored of watching same animals in the zoo, national parks, and jungle? Though continuously new species are discovered to know more about animal kingdom some are not discovered they are made. Hybrid animals are made now. Hybrid is a thing made by combining two different elements, plants or animal to make a new thing having a characteristic of both.

Decades Ago hybridization of seeds was done to cultivate good crops. Now hybridization of the animals is done. Hybrid animals are made via vitro fertilization or somatic hybridization; however, the resulting cells are not able to develop into a full organism.

The naming of hybrid animals depends on the sex and species of the parents. Name starts with male parents name and ends with female parents name.

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

1 TIGON

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A Tigon is a hybrid cross between a male tiger and female lion. It exhibits visible characteristic of both parents, spots from mother and stripes from the father. The color of their coat ranges from pale ocher to yellowish brown. It does not exceed the size of their parent species. Tigon often weighs around 180 kilograms (400lb). The male tigon does not have a full mane but can retain some ruff. The female is capable of giving birth. They are prone to cancer and other illnesses and have a short life span and are said to be more aggressive than ligers. They enjoy swimming.

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2 GROLAR BEAR

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Grolar bear is a hybrid species of bear, created by interbreeding of grizzly bear and polar bear. They are also known as pizzly bears and are evolved from the same ancestors 150,000 years ago. A same number of chromosomes(74) and their genetic similarity ensure production of fertile offsprings. The first grolar bear was observed in the wild in 2006. Grolar bear can reach 40 to 60 inches in height, 78 to 120 inches in length and 400 to 1,500 pounds of weight. It has thick, creamy white fur with brown patches around eyes, on the legs and paws. Grolar bear has the wide face, long neck, hump on the shoulders and large claws on the feet. They are weaker swimmer compared with polar bears.

3 BEEFALO

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Beefalo are a hybrid of male cattle and female bison.It contains 37.5% genes of bison and 63.5% genes of domestic cattles. They are also known as cattalo . Beefalo can reach 55 inches in height and 1,500 2,000 pounds of weight. Beefalo is very small at birth with an average weight of 40-60 pounds and reaches sexual maturity slightly later in life and can reproduce until the age of 25 years. It has the bovine like body without the hump and has a higher tolerance to diseases and ability to survive in the areas with the cold climate that are not suitable for domestic cattle. Beefalo is mostly used as a more protein and less cholesterol meat. They are also valuable source of milk.

4 LIGERS

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The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. The body of liger resembles that of lion and tail of a tiger. The tigress often requires a C-section performed when giving birth to a liger because the cub is bigger than a tiger. The first liger cub was born by an accident back in 1799. The maximum recorded age of a liger is 24 years. Ligers are the biggest cat in the world, they grow at a rate of 1kg every second day, thus by the end of their first year, they can weigh up to 165 kg. The mouth of a liger is about as big as the shoulders of a man. It can run with the speed of 80kmh. Ligers are highly socialized animals and love to swim.

5 JAGLIONS

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A jaglion is also known as a jaguon which is a hybrid result of mating a male jaguar with a lioness. It has the lions background color, brown, jaguar like rosettes and the powerful build. The length of their body is 3-3.5m. Two jaglions were born in 2006 at Bear Creek Sanctuary, result of close friendship between the two species from their childhood.

6 NARLUGAS

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Narlugas are the offspring of male narwhals and female belugas. Narwhals and belugas are the only two member of the monodontidae family of whales that is why they can crossbreed.

7 HINNIES

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Hinny is a hybrid product of a male donkey and a female horse. They are slightly smaller than mules in part because donkeys are generally smaller than horses. Hinnies grow in various sizes but are restricted to being about the size of largest breed of donkey. Hinnies are difficult to obtain because of the differences in the number of chromosomes of horse (64) and the donkey (64).

8 COYWOLF

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Coywolf is the hybrid product of coyotes and gray wolves. It has a thick coat that can be blondish or dark blackish in color. Coy wolf has bid skull, wide, powerful jaws, short, round ears, long legs and strong wolf like body. It can reach 4-5 feet in length and 35-45 pounds of weight and sexual maturity at the age of 2 years. Coy wolf has an average lifespan of 3 to 5 years in the wild and around 10 years in the urban areas. They are a social animal and live in a group of 3 to 5 animals.

9 ZEBROIDS

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A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine. Many times when zebras are crossbred, they develop some kind of dwarfism. They are more resistant to certain diseases such as sleeping sickness. Zebra stripes tend to show up on at least part of the hybrids body.

10 WHOLPHIN

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Wholphin is a marine mammal created by cross breeding of bottlenose dolphin and false killer whale. It grows very fast and reaches the size of one-year-old dolphin only a few months after. Baby wholphin depends on the mothers milk until the age of 9 months. After that period, it starts to consume fish. It can reach 12-22 feet in length and around 600 pounds of weight and have 66 teeth. Wolphin has dark gray skin, whales like eyes and large body. The average lifespan of wholphin is around 40 years. The first born and the oldest known wholphin is kekaimalu.

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