2006-07-27 05:37:02 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
or maybe a rhino?
2006-07-27 05:44:29 · update #1
with the horse, i mean.
2006-07-27 05:44:50 · update #2
In order to be defined as the same species, two animals must be able to breed and produce FERTILE offspring. Yes, a horse and a donkey can mate and produce a mule, but the mule is sterile so the horse and donkey are still different species. Also, in captivity, lions and tigers can cross breed, but in the wild they are isolated by continents os we still consider them different species. Now, not only are a horse and a narwhale different species, they aren't even that closely related that you would be able to get them to cross. So, no there is no way for this to happen. A rhino is closer related, but is still very distantly related to a horse.
On a lighter note, I'd like to know exactly where this mating would occur.
2006-07-27 06:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Some science-fiction authors have put stuff like this in their stories; a cat with human hands (he liked to play with matches), and animals that have human vocal cords. Gene splicing isn't that advanced yet, but it'll probably happen someday.
On another note, have you seen the goat with just one horn in the middle of it's head? It's on a commercial for gum with Snoop dog. It (or one like it) was advertised in a circus within the past 15 years or so as being a unicorn.
One more thing: maybe you could write a science fiction story about the crossing of the two animals!
2006-07-27 14:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by Crystal L ™ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a great idea! It might take some perfecting though. You might end up with a mer-horse.
Just to clarify, a narwhal is one of those beautiful white whale things, yeah?
2006-07-27 12:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by Rae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what if you added dna from the narwal horn (tooth) and then crossd the dna of a fertile egg (undeveloped colt)
2014-05-15 16:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by kacy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breed them? No. But you could in theory take the genes that make the narwal horn and put them into a horse embryo and make your self a real life unicorn.
2006-07-27 16:48:45 · answer #5 · answered by xoil1321321432423 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would probably be easier to genetically engineer a horse that grows a horn in the middle of its forehead.
And by easier, I mean "still technically impossible at the present time".
2006-07-27 13:06:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man, I love to see a horse get the horn
2006-07-27 12:41:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOT close enough.
No guarantee that the horn (which is a tooth by the way) would magically appear where you wanted it too. Then there's the problem of making it white...
2006-07-28 21:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by lrad1952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...that is not a horn the narwhal sports, but rather a tusk...
besides, just because you've never seen a unicorn, that doesn't mean they don't exist...
2006-07-27 12:42:41 · answer #9 · answered by old timer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm no scientist, but probably not now, but in another 50 to 100years time YES
2006-07-27 12:41:52 · answer #10 · answered by Vagabonda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋