Lions can mate with tigers?
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Lions can mate with tigers?
Post #1Video footage of the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
I first found out about this tiger/lion hybrid offspring from a Discovery Channel documentary on big cats, (lions, tigers, cougars, and then ligers).
Wikipedia link..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
Interestingly if you reverse the sexes, a male TIGER mating with a female lion, then you'll get a 'tigon' or 'tiglon'.
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Re: Lions can mate with tigers?
Post #2Another fact about the ligers and the tigons.. the males are mostly sterile , while the females are fertileAngel wrote:
Video footage of the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
I first found out about this tiger/lion hybrid offspring from a Discovery Channel documentary on big cats, (lions, tigers, cougars, and then ligers).
Wikipedia link..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
Interestingly if you reverse the sexes, a male TIGER mating with a female lion, then you'll get a 'tigon' or 'tiglon'.
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Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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I just finished watching the whole video. What was that creepy part at the end that talked about making a human/chimp baby?Goat wrote:Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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Not sure, but why do I get the feeling that someone out there is willing to try it if no one hasn't already? Get ready for planet of the apes!Darias wrote:I just finished watching the whole video. What was that creepy part at the end that talked about making a human/chimp baby?Goat wrote:Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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Not sure if that is possible at this point. However evidence does show that after the chimp/human lines diverged, there was some swapping of DNA for a few hundred thousand years.Darias wrote:I just finished watching the whole video. What was that creepy part at the end that talked about making a human/chimp baby?Goat wrote:Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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On the other hand, Lllama and Camels have been separated by well over a million years due to geography, and it IS possible to create viable (i.e. fertile) offspring by use of invited fertilization.
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I'm sure scientists won't have to take the mating route, but will just need DNA samples from each species and foster them in a laboratory and engineer the DNA sequences to accept each other to create hybrids of all types. Reminds me of the movie, The Island of Dr. Moreau (spelling on last name may be off)Goat wrote:Not sure if that is possible at this point. However evidence does show that after the chimp/human lines diverged, there was some swapping of DNA for a few hundred thousand years.Darias wrote:I just finished watching the whole video. What was that creepy part at the end that talked about making a human/chimp baby?Goat wrote:Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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On the other hand, Lllama and Camels have been separated by well over a million years due to geography, and it IS possible to create viable (i.e. fertile) offspring by use of invited fertilization.
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It might very well be possible, at least via in-vitro fertilization, to create a human-chimp hybrid. The offspring would definitely be infertile in that case.
The question is why would we? We'd create a sentient and probably considerably intelligent creature doomed to live as a lab rat, maybe even subjected to cruel experiments, and I don't see how it would be scientifically useful.
The question is why would we? We'd create a sentient and probably considerably intelligent creature doomed to live as a lab rat, maybe even subjected to cruel experiments, and I don't see how it would be scientifically useful.
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Island of Dr. Moreau.Darias wrote:I just finished watching the whole video. What was that creepy part at the end that talked about making a human/chimp baby?Goat wrote:Yes, it is exactly like Mules. If nature keeps on taking it's course, and man doesn't screw things up by making the two species extinct, eventually, they would not be able to have fertile offspring at all .. then would not be able to have any offspring at allDarias wrote:So are they kinda like... mules -- who can't really have cubs of their own?
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