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Tiglon?

14:14 / 07.01.02

Anybody ever seen a tiglon? Apparently a forced crossbreed between a lion and a tiger breaking the species barrier. Any zoos that house these critters? Is it not a bit sick to cross these two big cats? Anyone know of any other weird/cool crossbreeds?

16:34 / 07.01.02

Mules.

Cross between a horse and a donkey.

17:08 / 07.01.02

Yorkshire Scottish Terrier. Cross between a noble hunting dog and a hampster.

13:46 / 08.01.02

I'm pretty sure people did similar things with horses and zebras, but I can't remember what the offspring were called. Not quagga, that's its own (extinct) animal.

Dude! Check this list out! I totally forgot about beefalo.
I used to know a whole litter of wolf dogs, but that's not quite the same, I don't think. Maybe. The offspring weren't sterile, I didn't think.

Oh, and here's a great page with photos of all theses odd hybrids.

whale+dolphin=wolphin

shetland pony+zebra=zetland

and if you're curious, we're genetically closer to chimpanzees than horses are to donkeys.

think about it.

13:58 / 08.01.02

It would be cool if a zonkey was a cross between a zebra and a monkey...but it isn't...

15:58 / 08.01.02

A chimpmanzee?

A humanzee?

Who's gonna volunteer?

Zoom.

18:11 / 08.01.02

No it would have to be a chiman

tom-karika nukes it from orbit

21:09 / 09.01.02

Some of these things look pretty ill

I think I have a chiman sitting next to me, btw. Actually, maybe he is just a chimp

[ 10-01-2002: Message edited by: K=[Karika] ]

12:28 / 10.01.02

Check out a little way back. This guy is one hell of a tool.

QUOTE:
All our War Orders were in secret code. A sophisticated system capable of controlling thousands of warheads and delivery vehicles during an all-out global war.

It is so obvious that the human genetic code, which is vastly more sophisticated, is the Creation of God the Creator.

Oh yeah, obviously. I love how these people are always saying "obviously". Because people who dont question things will just think "Oh, he said obviously, if I question him I will look stupid so I'll just shut up."

*pain*

16:23 / 10.01.02

I hate to admit it, but this genetic distance between man and chimp has me intrigued. I wonder if there've ever been any experiment? You could make a super-hero if you had someone with a human "intelligence" and a chimp's agility and strength.

Or am I just a really sick man?

Zoom.

17:00 / 10.01.02

A monkey. . with four asses.

Thiassi

18:34 / 10.01.02

If we get to the point where we can make the offspring viable and fertile, then what I think we should do is attempt to cross lions with successively smaller felines until we create a male housecat with a mane. Of course, it would probably be easier to do this with genetic modification.

19:12 / 10.01.02

Why?

tom-karika nukes it from orbit

21:18 / 10.01.02

Genetic distance? I share 50% of my genes with a bannana, and any other living organisms based on eukaryotic cells. However, funny enough I am not keen on reproducing with either chimp or bannana, and so will shut up now.

Thiassi

21:48 / 10.01.02

I'm sorry, but if you can't see the inherent value in mini-lions, there's nothing I can do to help you.

10:15 / 11.01.02

Well, the more I think of it...no wait... the research should be geared towars producing viable monkey butlers...after all, priorities...

Thiassi

07:20 / 13.01.02

I will concede that monkey butlers are more important than mini-lions.

14:06 / 15.01.02

Last season Jay Leno had a Ligger (lion/tigger)on his show..that thing was massive..huge...im talking like He-man's Battlecat huge...but sadly not green. (I kept yelling "By The Power Of Greyskull" at the tv but nothing happened)

02:10 / 16.01.02

Battle cat only appears when you hold aloft your magic sword and sound like a broadcaster from the fifties...

19:28 / 17.01.02

But I do sound like a 50's announcer! Ok so i didnt hold aloft my magic sword..but I did have a potato peeler and im sure it made my neighbour dissapear...isnt that close enough?? What more do they want from me???

12:31 / 10.03.04

Coming back to the subject of monkey-men hybrids, how about the orang-u-man?

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

13:20 / 10.03.04

Actually, thiassi, the Maine Coon comes pretty close to having a mane. My cat is one, and she has a pretty convincing ruff. I imagine that through some selective breeding, a cat with a mane could be produced. Getting the rounded ears of the lion might be a bit of a problem though.

16:15 / 10.03.04

Soooooo happy, I get an excuse to go on about recently extinct species and strange genetic mutations.

This website has stuff about white lions and other weird variations Cool Mutant Animals Website

Quagga's are a recently extinct species which looked a bit like zebra's with a tan and they're breeding them back! Breeding Program Website

I gotta post a picture of this Tiger as well

This is the Javan tiger, sadly extinct. I think he's a fantastic looking predator, his stripes are all distorted by those strong, scary looking muscles. All other tigers look kinda pussy in comparison.

09:40 / 11.03.04

There is a guy in Bedfordshire who has sold the world's most expensive cat - a cross breed between a domestic cat and a feral one.

Esmond Gay's Sarez Bengals

14:27 / 11.03.04

Ah...but you're missing the coolest part of lion/tiger crossbreeds. LIGERS ARE HUGE!!!. A Tigon occurs when a male tiger breeds with a female lion, and there's nothing too spectacular about them. A liger is bred the other way around but often end up about TWICE the size of a regular lion/tiger. Check out this picture.

15:13 / 11.03.04

Quagga's are a recently extinct species which looked a bit like zebra's with a tan and they're breeding them back!
Sorry, but I can't let this one slip by. To claim that scientists are attempting to breed Quagga's back into existence is bad science and just plain wrong.

Once a species goes extinct, that is it. There ain't no going back. The website claims that because the Quaggas are currently believed to be a subspecies (a notion that holds a whole heap of caveats, taxonomy is pretty far from being an exacting science, in the past 15 years we've gone from 5 kingdoms to two domains...) of plains zebra that it might be possible to breed them back into existence.

Simply put this is not possible. You can attempt to produce a new breed of plains zebra which looks like a Quagga but it won't contain any Quagga genetic material, it will be an entire diferent modern offshoot of plains zebra (one that will probably be more accurately termed a breed than a subspecies since it will not have evolved difference, but been bred for them).

17:17 / 11.03.04

... soREE!

Yes, yes, so I got my specifics wrong, but at least I linked it to a site that would put you right, eh? I wasn't claiming to be an expert, I was just sharing my excitement.

17:42 / 11.03.04

Great...so how long before we get our Kwisat Haderach?

05:47 / 12.03.04

My cat has a mane.. a huge one. If I had a picture, I would post it.

Much cooler than the Bengals are of course Scottlish Folds: a cross between a cat and a monkey, no?