Ligers, Zonkeys and other hybrids

jbnbsn99 said:
Chlidonias, did you really just link to an anti-evolution creationist site? Tell me you didn't do that.
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there's nothing wrong with anti-evolution creationists. They are God's children too.

If you scroll down the page there are notes on hybrids with references. All quite kosher.

EDIT: ooo if you go to one of their other pages (http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v5/n1/mammalian-ark-kinds) there's a photo of the long-beaked echidna at Moscow Zoo taken by Zoochatter alexkant which they've lifted from the zooinstitutes website.....
 
MisterKS said:
The fact that their population keeps on depleting at a very alarming rate, without any increase in their population, makes us aware that some are falling into the endangered species list: Endangered Animals Information: Causes of Endangerment and Saving the Endangered Animals -
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Random! :rolleyes:

Quote from this link "Animals endangered have to be taken care of for their medicinal values. If once they are lost, they cannot be replaced. Tiger bones are used as an effective cure against some deadly diseases like cancer."

WTF? :eek:
 
Because places like that breeding Panthera-hybrids *always* say that kind of thing, just like places breeding white tigers do.... :rolleyes:
 
nanoboy said:
Why does the article call the birth of the cubs "a conservation success"?
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that's the place that is trying to produce sabre-tooth tigers by crossbreeding lions and tigers. As I think I said in another thread "it's science in action" (or something along those lines).
 
Chlidonias said:
that's the place that is trying to produce sabre-tooth tigers by crossbreeding lions and tigers. As I think I said in another thread "it's science in action" (or something along those lines).
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Shut your mouth! Really? The same facility featured in the Louis Theroux documentary?
 
ligers....

How would you even think you might produce Sabre-toothed Tigers that way?
 
Ligers....

Following the same logic, they could cross a big dog with a wolf and hope to get a Dire Wolf. Actually, they're doing just that.....
I'm just going down the garden to cross a fat pigeon with another fat pigeon to see if I get a Dodo.
 
sigh, you people just don't understand science. If you cross one species (or "breed") with another species then the result is a different species. Hence why there was room on the Ark -- after the animals came out they had a massive, er, "breeding party" and produced a whole lot of new species which weren't on the Ark to begin with.

You can't cross a dog and a wolf to get a new species, you need to cross a hyaena and a wolf. Then you would get your dire wolf. Same for the pigeons: fat pigeon plus fat pigeon just equals a really fat pigeon baby. You would need a fat pigeon bred with a demoiselle crane. There's your dodo parentage right there.
 
Ligers....

And there was me planning to cross the Dire Wolf with the Dodo in the hope of breeding a Redneck American Creationist. That's another theory shot to hell; I have so much to learn.
 
FBBird said:
And there was me planning to cross the Dire Wolf with the Dodo in the hope of breeding a Redneck American Creationist. That's another theory shot to hell; I have so much to learn.
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well the funny thing with bird-mammal breeding attempts, is that the daddy bird needs to fertilise the lady mammal from inside. So if you see the dire wolf apparently devouring the dodo do not be alarmed, it is just nature's way, and in several months time your dire wolf will lay a nice clutch of eggs.
 
Of course some hybrids are rather useful the Bengalese finch Lonchura striata domestica is often used to foster other finch eggs, especially if the parents lay a lot of eggs but don't always incubate them, or are rare and removing a clutch of eggs can result in another clutch.
 
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