Liger may be the most commonly known hybrid animal, but there are a few more that would fascinate you. Read on to know more about such hybrid animals with portmanteau names.
Leopons
Leopons are larger than your average leopard and are brown-spotted, reddish-yellow creatures nearly as big as a lioness. This wild hybrid of leopards and lions is mostly produced in captivity, but the possibility of one in the wild is quite there given leopards and lions cross paths quite often. Male leopons have beards and manes.
Wholphins
Kekaimalu, meaning‘from the peaceful ocean’ is the only confirmed wholphin at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. Although there are many reports of people witnessing them in the wild, she is the only one living as proof. Her parents are a 2000-pound false killer whale and a 400-pound Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Kekaimalu has a daughter born in 2005, Kawili ‘Kai, whose father is a male dolphin.
Cattalo
Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones, a Kansas resident cross breeder in 1906 cross bread American bison and domestic cow and had Cattalo. Cattalo is hybrids having a bison appearance and are well equipped for the harsh winters of the Great Plains. However, Cattalo soon became a menace as they destroyed the vegetation and habitats of some animals.
Zonkeys
Charles Darwin quoted them in the 1859 edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’; This donkey and Zebra hybrid just like mules are born sterile. But their population did not grow naturally as no one can breed them with any other including a Zonkey. They are mostly found in Mexican and Italian Zoos.
Camas
Dr. Lulu Skidmore and her team at Dubai’s Camel Reproduction Center in 1999 tried to create an animal with Lama and Camel to understand if the hybrid can have the best features of both species. But they could not create one naturally and used artificial insemination to create a male cama.
Yakow
This bovine hybrid is quite common in Nepal and is stronger and bigger than both Yalks and Cows. At high altitude areas, Yakows are very useful as they give considerably more milk and they have cow’s agility and Yalk’s thin air forbearance.
Coywolves
Also known as woyotes, they’re a western coyote and eastern grey wolf hybrid. Born in the wild, coywolves as a result of coyotes moving into southern Ontario, a wolve stronghold. The hybrid has longer legs, bigger paws, and bushier tails and they hunt in packs.
Isn’t this an amazing realm of hybrid animals?
