What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

[Pinch Paxton]

The opposite halves of the gene pool. With Tigers, and Lions you get Ligers, and Tions. Tions have a mane! Or is it Tigons?

 

Tygons and Ligers ...found that.

[Sayonara]

And then a Tyranodile and a Crocosaurus mate to produce a Crocodile (or close ancestor of, anyway)?

[Pinch Paxton]

Yeah, I think it actually takes about 11 generations to get 100%, or 3 generations to get 90% crocodile.

 

Zebras can also mate with donkeys, and you get a Zonkey. It's another natural mating.

[mooeypoo]

Zonkeys!?

 

 

okay.

 

Many replies were added since i was here the last time and I have lots to say but I need to read them all properly first... I just... wanted to make sure I read "Zonkeys" right.

 

O.O

 

I'd love to get information of cross breeding in NATURE, pinch. I didn't know those things existed in nature.. but I believe you. Can you give me any info? a website? anything?

 

 

~moo

[Pinch Paxton]

Big things ...Ligers!

 

 

http://www.stripeymaney.com/ligers/

 

http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-mammals.html

 

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/923817/detail.html

[Sayonara]

They do, it's just that they're the result of 1-in-a-trillion type mating events.

 

Maybe if every tiger mated only with lions, and so on, you'd end up with a small population of survivable ligers and tigons, but few of those would be capable of reproducing. It's also assuming that no lion-lion or tiger-tiger matings occur any more, which is one hell of an assumption.

 

Here's a captive liger: http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm

 

You'll notice the info about non-sterile mules - search on this site for a story about one mating successfully.