can a cardinal mate with a dove?

Question

I once saw a show where tiger mated with a male lion to create -you guessed it a liger.
LOL no jk

This is good that the probably would not mate with one another because they would have a hard time assimilating their offspring

Answer 1

Ignore what Guddy says, he is talking rubbish. Most birds and animals will happily mate with animals outside their own species and produce young. The young of such animals are called hybrids.

For birds to hybridise they have to be fairly closely related to start with. Cardinals and doves are no more closely related than humans are to deer. You wouldn’t expect a human and a deer to be able to mate and produce babies would you? So no, cardinals and doves can’t interbreed.

However there are many different species of animal that CAN interbreed and produce offspring. But the different species need to be fairly closely related, far more closely than human and deer… or a cardinal and a dove. For example we can interbreed horses and donkeys to produce baby mules, and we can breed cattle and buffalo, or camels and llamas. And the same is true of birds. While cardinals can’t be bred with doves we quite frequently find other hybrid birds in the wild.

Ducks are particularly noted for forming wild hybrids and many if not all north American mallards for example are of mixed species ancestry (see the first link below).

Humans also produce hybrid birds in captivity. Chickens are commonly bred with pheasants or guinea fowl to produce hybrids, and occasionally chickens are crossbred with turkeys.

Answer 2

I'm sure it's possible, just as a human can mate with a donkey, but the result will not yield any offspring, in all probability. There have been some cross species matings with decent results, the most famous is the mule (horseXdonkey) and I have heard of lion/tiger hybrids and mouse/rat hybrids being accomplished. You could watch the movie "King Kong" which is said to be the greatest interspecies love story ever told. (or did you mean a Catholic priest mating with an anti-war activist?)

Answer 3

sure, it fairly is totally obtainable for them to be pals. On greater advantageous than one party, i've got considered a bluejay or in line with probability a number of them and an identical male cardinal, brilliant around one yet another each now and then. I take it that cardinals and bluejays do no longer suggestions one yet another's employer.

Answer 4

they could...but it would not happen in nature, and even if it did, there would be no offspring as they are different species, they don't even share the same genus. Some birds that are very similar, in the same genus...such as some warblers, or buntings can interbreed with other warblers and buntings or different species, resulting in a hybrid. However, the hybrid offspring would be sterile and could not reproduce.

Answer 5

it is only possible by artificial insemination or any biotecnological methods. but naturally not only birds but all organisms have specificity towards their own species and mating is a very specific kind of interaction which requires specific hormones or pheromones to be secreted by one partner so that the other one can identify it.

So it may not be possible naturally, but artificially now its even possible to mate a snake with you.

Answer 6

They could, technically, but it is unlikely because birds have a strong attraction to their species, and generally will not mate with another. But it is always possible.

Answer 7

No. At least they could not cross breed. Not closely enough related.

Answer 8

birds of a feather

Answer 9

I think so.