• From Hinnys to Narlugas, we count 10 crazy hybrid animals that actually exist.
10 – Hinny, • You’ve probably heard of mules, but
did you know if you breed a male horse and a female donkey instead of a female horse
and a male donkey, you get a whole other animal called a Hinny?
• This is actually the case with most, if not all, hybrid animals.
• The difference between the two is that Hinnys look more like horses and are smaller,
the size difference is thought to be because of donkey wombs being smaller than horses’.
• Funnily enough it’s actually quite rare to happen without artificial insemination
since stallions and jennys are both much more picky about their mates than the other respective
sexes.
Ya know what this really reminded me of?
That Spanish song that is about a burro. 9 - Leopon,
• A leopon is what happens when you cross a leopard
with a lion and it has spots and a mane, although the spots are smaller and faded and the mane
isn’t as thick or majestic.
• The first person to breed a leopon wasn’t super successful, the lioness bore two cubs
and one of them died months after its birth, luckily the other survived for much longer.
• All leopons were sterile until recently, when someone managed to breed one with a lion-jaguar
hybrid, which is called a leoliguar which unfortunately I couldn’t find any pictures
of, so I drew you an amazing picture of one instead.
8 - Cama, Do you like camels, do you like llamas?
Well then have I got the animal for you, this little cutie-pie is a cross between a camel
and a llama and it was created to be extra fluffy so we could get more wool out of them.
• When the first cama was still young it was riley and generally misbehaved, especially
once it reached sexual maturity where it tried to bang other llamas and a guanaco, whatever
that is.
• Unlike many other hybrids, camas are fertile and have successfully been bred with other
camas in order to make many fluffy camas. 7 - Narluga,
• If you don’t like fluffy then maybe a narwhal crossed with a beluga might interest
you, I mean sure it doesn’t have a unicorn horn like half of its parents do, but it’s
still so happy to see you.
• This is one of many, many arctic hybrids that have spawned naturally because of the
melting ice caps, it seems that the hybrids are much more robust and better suited to
deal with the relatively hot arctic. 6 – Wholphin,
• When you take a false killer whale, one of the dopiest looking animals around, and
cross it with a dolphin you get one weird looking mammal-fish, it seems that very little
of the grace of the dolphin gets carried over in this situation.
• It’s very hard to get a wholphin to exist, it’s difficult to conceive and tends
to die not long after being born, but one survived long enough to have offspring, making
3-quarter dolphin wholphins. 5 – Zebroid,
• Zebroid is the collective name for any zebra that’s been bred with any other equine
animal, you know like donkeys or horses.
• The more specific names are amusing, try saying zedonk, zorse, zonkey, zebra mule or
zebmule without smiling, okay maybe the last two aren’t that funny but still you get
my point.
• Zebras have between 32 and 46 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, yet they can still breed
with relatively few problems, which I think is pretty damn amazing.
4 – Grolar Bear, • What are the two coolest bears?
If you answered correctly you should have said polar and grizzly and they have been
merged together through the power of sex into one of the cuddliest looking killing machines
on Earth.
• This is another one of those hybrids that were caused by climate change and it’s pretty
astounding to see just how well it survives in comparison to polar bears.
• But this animal brings up an unfair point, why do bears have to be cute?
It’s like they’ve evolved specifically to make humans want to hug them, thus providing
them a free meal.
3 – Geep and the Sheep-Goat Chimera, • A geep is a cross between a goat and a
sheep and it’s amazing they can exist at all since they’re in totally different genera,
which is the plural for genus by the way.
• But there’s an even more amazing animal, instead of breeding a sheep with a goat a
scientist merged the embryos of the two animals in order to create
a chimera.
• The chimera has patches of wool and patches of goat fur and no, it really isn’t from
science fiction, I just want them to somehow make a dog-cat chimera next just to see what
it’d look like.
2 - Jaglion, • Take a jaguar bump it into a lion for
long enough and you’ll either have one dead cat and one alive cat, or several months later
you’ll get a jaglion.
• It’s pretty crazy to see a lion with such vivid markings on it, it almost looks
fake, but the internet tells me it’s real and why the internet ever lie about something
like this?
• I just think someone needs to figure out how to make one a household pet, because I
want one, I mean it’d protect the house way better than any dog could, and its pretty
damn cool when you go around telling your friends “yeah I got a jaglion and no you
can’t pet it”.
1 – Liger and Tigon • I’m sure you’ve heard of ligers before,
but that doesn’t mean they’re not amazing animals, I mean you take the two of the coolest
animals and merge them together and it comes out looking even cooler than you’d think
it would, it doesn’t lose its main and the stripes are as vivid as a tiger’s.
• Unfortunately since they live nowhere near each other it just never happens naturally.
• Crazy enough, ligers actually grow bigger than either tigers or lions, whereas tigons
only grow to the size of a female tiger.