Let us see how many crossbreeds we can list. Not subspecies - only full species crosses. Can be a photo attachment of one you have seen yourself, or a link to one you found on the internet. (Note - by posting these, we are NOT necessarily condoning them. Most of us agree that these animals have no conservation value and no serious zoo should be doing this. I just thought it would be interesting for observation sake).
I am going to start things off with a new one I just found at a snake farm and zoo outside of San Antonio - a serval/caracal cross. Texas Snake Farm, Petting Zoo, Exotic Animal Park And another unusual cat hybrid (mentioned before on ZooChat) - lion/black jaguar. Bear Creek Sanctuary - Jaglions
Anybody particularly interested in hybrids should read "Mammalian Hybrids" (Annie P. Gray; second edition 1972).
Apparently a zoo in Japan produced a sloth bear/sun bear hybrid in the 60's. It looked kind of like a very elongated sun bear. Also have heard of a sitatunga/bongo hybrid. It was female with sitatunga patterning and bongo horns.
I think that a few years back in East Berlin, a hybrid was born between scimitar and Arabian oryx. This animal then went on to produce a further hybrid with an addax.
I've heard about the jaglions before. I don't get their explanation pertaining to producing them. How do you accidentally get a lion and a jaguar to produce cubs?
That's my thinking. Funny thing is, most people who read the "accidental" explanation probably see nothing strange about it. People are pretty naive.
There is a gibbon hybrid at Wingham, but of which species I can't recall at the moment - can anybody help?
The male Jaguar and female Lion had been brought up together from cubs, and when separation was attempted, they'd both exhibit stress, so were put back together. According to Bear Creek, everything was done so no cubs were produced, but Nature had her own way; as most women seem to! XD
There was indeed a triple antelope hybrid in the Berlin Tierpark; I saw it myself. I believe it was actually an (addax X scimitar-horned oryx) X Arabian oryx hybrid.
for birds it can be supplemented with "Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World" from 2006 by Eugene M. McCarthy. It lists about 4,000 (four thousand!!) different bird hybrids. Both wild and captive. Overall birds are the best known animal class but there is no reason to assume hybrids are rarer in other classes. A strange hybrid that happened by mistake was the babirusa-pig hybrid in Copenhagen zoo. Before it happened no one believed they could or would breed because they are not closely related at all. There are photos in the zoochat gallery for Copenhagen zoo.
When I was younger I had a canary that was possibly a linnet mule *G* Actually bought him thinking he was a female, only to have him start singing his head off shortly after. Compared to most canaries he was green and skinny, but a great singer. He possibly had some roller canay in him too by his song. I currently have several orchid hybrids *G* Have also looked after a Bengal cat (domestic cat with a dash of Asian Leopard Cat)
Several years ago I visited Payson Zoo (Arizona - thankfully now closed) that had a mule deer - white tail deer cross. The parents were rescues from Arizona Game and Fish who assured the zoo owner they would not interbreed. Whoops! That same zoo also had a coyote - domestic dog cross, although I did not hear how that one happened.
Hybrid macaws for the pet trade here: Hybrid Macaws, About Hybrid Macaw Parrots, Types of Hybrid Macaws
I think the less said about these the better. I cannot see any benefit from deliberately crossing the various Macaw species. The resulting birds aren't, to my eyes at least , very beautiful, and the colours are often muddy unlike the pure species.
