Species Crossbreeds

[nanoboy]

I think the less said about these the better. I cannot see any benefit from deliberately crossing the various Macaw species. The resulting birds aren't, to my eyes at least , very beautiful, and the colours are often muddy unlike the pure species.

I totally agree with you, but I was only mentioning it in the context of the thread.

I wonder if there are any records of tigers mating with lions in the wilderness of India and environs?

 

[OrangePerson]

There is a gibbon hybrid at Wingham, but of which species I can't recall at the moment - can anybody help?

Don't know about Wingham but they occur in the wild and sing a song which is a mix of the two species, lar and agile I think it was that were mentioned.

 

[Yero]

In Antwerp Zoo, in the late 1960s a male bongo impregnated two different sitatunga females (no female bongos were available), resulting in two female hybrids named "bongsi's"; at least one of those hybrid females mated with a male sitatunga, resulting in a female "3/4 sitatunga" or "sibongsi" - and to top it of this female also mated with a male sitatunga, resulting in a "sisibongsi" - tiy can see a picture of this sisibongsi on the website http://www.beeldbankzoo.be/; just type "sisibongsi" in the search window (labeled as "zoeken") in the top left corner.

also at Antwerp zoo, mona monkeys cross bred with blue monkeys (cercopithecus mitis doghetti) in about the same period. A pictrure pof this hybrid can also be found at the same website mentioned above (enther "hybride" in the search window. I'm sure hybridisation between different species of guenons, spider monkeys, macaques etc occurred frequently in the past. (not to mention bird hybrids - see also some of the examples at the same website above)

Dierenrijk Eindhoven, the Netherlands also houses hybrid gibbons.
Osnabruck Zoo, Germany, houses brown bear-polar bear hybrids.
And don't forget the hybridisation between Sumatran and Bornean orangutans.

 

[jenjen]

Keikamalu is the result of a False Killer Whale
who mated with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lives at Sealife Park Hawaii.


Kawili'Kai is the result of Keikamalu
(False Killer Whale x Bottlenose Dolphin ) mating with
a bottlenose dolphin. She is 3/4 dolphin and 1/4 whale.


Bullet is the result of a Short-beaked Common Dolphin
who mated with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lives at Seaworld San Diego.


CJ is the result of a Short-beaked Common Dolphin
who mated with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
he is Bullet's halfbrother and lives at Discovery Cove.


Aries is a backcross of CJ who mated
with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
he lives at Discovery Cove.


Bao was the first hybrid in the world
between a Rough-toothed Dolphin
and a Bottlenose Dolphin.
He lived at Sea Life Park in Hawaii.


Kuri-Chan was the first hybrid in the world
between a Risso's Dolphin
and a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lived at Enoshima Aquarium in Japan.


Purine is the result of a Risso's Dolphin
mating with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lives at Beachland in Japan.


Raisu was the result of a Risso's Dolphin
mating with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
He lived at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Japan.


Pop is the result of a Pacific White-sided Dolphin
mating with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lives at Shinagawa Aquarium in Japan.


Mint is the result of a Pacific White-sided Dolphin
mating with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
He lives at Marine World Umino Nakamichi in Japan.


Marron is the result of a Pacific White-sided Dolphin
mating with a Bottlenose Dolphin.
She lives at Marine World Umino Nakamichi in Japan.

 

[Badgerman91]

Colchester Zoo in England had a Zedonk called Shadow whom sadly died a few years ago...

 

[Tim May]

Colchester Zoo in England had a Zedonk called Shadow whom sadly died a few years ago...

Three zedonks were actually born at Colchester; for many years the three hybrids could be seen in a field with their black donkey mother.

A photograph of one of these hybrids, as a young foal, features on the dust jacket of Annie P. Gray’s book “Mammalian Hybrids”.

 

[Hix]

There is a spectacular hybrid between the Redwinged Parrot and the Australian King Parrot - the offspring all look the same (i.e. different parentage) and are fertile. Males are more brightly coloured than females.

I've looked for a photo on the internet but found nothing, so I'm attaching a photo of one I saw at the Gunnedah Bird Sale.

 

[Shirokuma]

According to the recently published book on the zoo's history, in 1936 a hybrid oryx was born at Bristol Zoo. It was born through a caesarian operation with the assistance of the Obstetric Department of the Bristol Royal Infirmary as it would have been too large at birth due to the mother being an Arabian oryx which was mated with a much larger scimitar-horned oryx.

 

[Monty]

There is a spectacular hybrid between the Redwinged Parrot and the Australian King Parrot - the offspring all look the same (i.e. different parentage) and are fertile. Males are more brightly coloured than females.

I've looked for a photo on the internet but found nothing, so I'm attaching a photo of one I saw at the Gunnedah Bird Sale.

That looks good for $300

 

[Ituri]

I'm looking for solid information about any captive crosses between Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) and Coyotes (Canis latrans). If anyone has any leads I'd love to hear about it.

 

[6647]

I thought you meant whole species formed from hybridization that are (supposedly) genetically different enough to have formed it's own species. For example, the beginnings of many cichlid species, plus what some scientists think was the cause of the Red Wolf or the Great Skua.

 

[Tim May]

I'm looking for solid information about any captive crosses between Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) and Coyotes (Canis latrans). If anyone has any leads I'd love to hear about it.

In her book “Mammalian Hybrids” (2nd edition 1972) Annie P. Gray records “a series of controlled experiments” which resulted in two hybrid litters between a male coyote and a female wolf.

She gives the reference to a paper by G. B. Kolenosky (1971) “Hybridization between wolf and coyote” in "The Journal of Mammalogy" (52: 446 – 449).