Genetically modified animals (part 2)

Last weekend something on TV caught my attention. It was a new animal created by man, let's say in laboratory. The documentary was very interesting and made me do a little research on the net. I find some very odd animals like the liger, the zebroid or the leopon. Of course they have chosen related species for creating this new animals and you will never see this :


But with some luck, you can see the liger (a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress). It is the largest of all known felines. Male Ligers are sterile while the females are often fertile. A liger can live over 20 years and can attain huge size (over 3 meters long and over 500 kg weight). Yep is not the kind of house cat, right? Like the liger we have the Tigon (a male tiger and a female lion). I know that this animal is likely to have occurred without human help (there are several testimonies that Liger exist since XVIII - XIX century), but today we find ligers only in captivity ("created by humans"). And this is not all, the situation gets more complicated with the appearance of Ti-Liger, Ti-Tigon, Li-Tigon, Li-Liger (a hybrid among the hybrids. It is a cross breed between a male tiger and a female liger/tigon or a male lion with a female tigon/liger.)







The next animal that caught my attention is the zebroid family (Zorse, Zonkey, Zony - funny names :D). Yep, you guess what animals were used in this pairing.

a) A zorse is the result of crossbreeding a horse and a zebra:


b) Zonkey - is the result of crossbreeding a donkey with a zebra.


c) Zony - is the result of crossbreeding a pony to a zebra.






In the next parts i will post more new animals like Iron Age Pig, Wolf Dog, Leopon Wolphin and many others. Till next time, Cya all !!! :D.