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Jolty the Joltik
joltymcjolterson
23 November 2012 @ 11:46 pm
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Hello again! For today's post, we're going to take a look at some interesting animals. These guys may all look pretty different from each other, but they've got a few things in common. The first is that their parents definitely look nothing much like each other, the second is that some of them can't have babies of their own, and the third is that they're interspecific hybrids! The reason a few of these animals are sterile is because of the number of enes they have. For instance, when it comes to mules, one of the most commonly seen hybrids, horses have 64 chromosomes to the 62 chromosomes that donkeys have, and their offspring end up with 63 chromosomes. As a result of this, they don't tend to be able to produce viable gametes, though on some occasions, female mules have been observed to be pregnant with children of male donekys.

Hybrids also aren't necessarily all unable to have kids, though! Some entirely new species have come about as a result to them, such as the American red wolf (though whether this actually qualifies as a species is in question) and the lonicer afly. Hybrid plants are also extremely common and many often seen crop species came from hybridisation. The animals we're looking at today, though, don't really fall into this category. Also, hybrids such as beefalo are fertile, and can have babies of their own. Still other hybrids, like the africanized honey bee, have been terrifyingly successful.

And on with the pictures!


zonkey (zebra/donkey)


perlin (peregrine falcon/merlin)


mule (donkey/horse)


ligger (lion/tigress)


dzo (yak/cow)


beefalo (cow/bison)


savannah (serval/domestic cat)


wolphin (killer whale/dolphin)


blood parrot (midas cichlid/red head cichlid)


mulard (pekin/muscovy duck)


imperial pueblan (banana california kingsnake/pueblan milksnake)


hybrid pheasant (lady amherst's pheasant/golden pheasant)

Aaaand of course-



















Spiders! No hybrids here, I'm afraid, but hopefully this little guy's bugged out face will make up for that. Today's spider is Ligurra latidens, and it's found in the mangroves of Southeast Asia, primarily around the Malay Penninsula. As you can see for the first picture, it's also really really tiny. The spiders in the first and second pictures are also female. The last picture, though, has a male spider. He does have quite the fabulous moustache, I think!


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