Friday, September 22, 2006

Hybrid Animals, Strange Nature


A grolar/pizzly hybrid is the product of a grizzly bear and a polar bear. Although the two bears are genetically similar, they tend to avoid each other in the wild. During 16 April 2006, a hybrid bear was shot dead by Jim Martell,a hunter from the United States, in Canada. It was the first time a hybrid was found in the wild where previous records of grolars or pizzlies have only been found in zoos.

A grolar, pizzly displayed at the Rothschild Museum, Tring, copyright Sarah Hartwell


Domestic Tamworth pigs are crossbred with wild boar to create 'Iron Age Pigs'. The hybrids are tamer than wild boar but less tractable than domestic swine and generally become specialist pork sausages. Most of them are bred for the specialist meat trade.


Leopon


A Leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard and a female lion. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the bodies carries similarities to leopards. The most successful breeding programme was at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan. Leopons are larger than leopards and likes to climb and enjoy water.


A Golden Pheasant


A Lady Amherst Pheasant



The Golden Phesant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady Amherst's Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors from its parents.


A Cama is a hybrid between a camel and a llama. They are born via artificial insemination due to the huge difference in sizes of the animals which disallow natural breeding. A Cama usually has the short ears and long tails of a camel but the cloven hooves of a llama. Also most noticeably is the absence of the hump.


Cama 2 days old

Cama 2 years old

16 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:07 PM

    nt wait to see the cross between an ape and a human....oh wait... I forgot its already been done. We have Hitlary Clinton already.

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  2. Anonymous4:58 PM

    Some people shouldn't be allowed to use computers...

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  3. Anonymous7:20 AM

    It's funny, most people would tend to make that comparision with our current president.

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  4. Anonymous11:42 AM

    hillery clinton isn't a cross between a human and ape shes a cross between a bitch and a camel

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  5. Anonymous9:18 PM

    ha! never heard that one before

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  6. Anonymous11:34 AM

    if Hilary is that bad then how the hell can u justify bush ??

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  7. Anonymous1:37 PM

    the same cant be said about our current president but it sure as hell can be said about hilary clinton... a bitch and a camel

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  8. Anonymous3:16 PM

    Well, at least Hilary Clinton can put a coherent sentence together, and doesn't make American electors look stupid to the rest of the world.

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  9. Anonymous10:44 PM

    arent we supposed to be commenting on the animals?

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  10. Anonymous10:48 AM

    there was a human chimp actually. humanzee. it had like 45 chromozones rather than 46 for humans and 44 for chimps.

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  11. Anonymous3:23 PM

    Yes, that humanzee is George Bush. :)

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  12. Anonymous4:56 PM

    No it's not the same! George Bush and Hillary crossed makes a Gillary everyone knows that.

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  13. Anonymous9:23 PM

    we already have a cross between humans and apes ther called black people!!!

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  14. Anonymous5:52 AM

    You're all a bit racist, aren't you?

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  15. Anonymous7:34 PM

    This stuff is Wrong GOD CREATED ALL MAN KIND IN HIS IMAGE AND GOD CREATED ALL ANIMALS.. Humans need to stop expertimenting with the LORDS CREATION.

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  16. Anonymous3:01 AM

    Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

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