Monday, October 4, 2010

Amazing Hybrids



These two pictures that you are seeing are real, unlike many of those stupid photoshopped hybrids. The Frist one is a Zorse ( Zebra+ Horse) and the second one i a Wholphin ( Killer Wale+ Dolphin). Just to clarify, i did not make up these names.

Theres really not much to it. For the Wholphin story, it took place in Hawaii Sea Park. A dolphin was placed in the same pool as a 2,000-pound male false killer whale. Waht resulted was a wholphin, a hybrid that was "intermediate to its parents in some characteristics, like having 66 teeth compared with the bottlenose’s 88 and the 44 of the false killer whale, a much larger member of the dolphin family."

These hybrids are rare but they do happen, but they are usually only in animals of the same family.
Reading this, i dont know if you have the same question, but i immediately wondered if we could cross breed with monkeys since they are in he same family as humans.
I looked it up and scientifically, it was proven that we can't b/c our genes/chromosomes dont match, but they whale and dolphin dont match and looked what became of them?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Wait, so the DNA of the whale and dolphin wasn't supposed to match up and produce a hybrid, but it did? Then maybe there is hope for humans and monkeys...although in retrospect, maybe I shouldn't write "hope." I'm pretty sure a hybrid between a human and any other animal would be an awful idea. Talk about debates of civil rights and who is entitled to them!

Ariana Sacchi said...

I read about these types of animals a couple of months ago, and I thought it was really interesting. It was interesting to see how these animals mix and what the result is.