Is there any species that can sucessfully mate with another species. i.e chimp and cow? zebra and sheep?

Answer 1

yes! if you cross breed an ant with a man you get a MANT!! there awesome

Answer 2

The very definition of a species is the smallest subdivision of a particular subset of animals that can still produce fertile offspring.

Therefore a member of one species cannot successfully mate with a member of another species. A mule is a result of a mating between a donkey and a horse, but it is not a successful one, as the resulting offspring is sterile.

Note to "Goffy": Chinchillas are South American rodents the size of red or gray squirrels found in North America, and are a group of their own species.

Answer 3

Only very closely related animals that have the same number of choromsomes and are members of the same genus. So, no a chimp and cow would never happen, nor would a zebra sheep be born.

Answer 4

Sometimes two very similar species can mate, like lions and tigers or horses and donkeys. The offspring of cross-species mating are ALWAYS sterile, because part of the definition of a species is that two animals that can mate and produce fertile offspring are the same species.

Answer 5

I don't usually give frivolous answers, but (a) it's now Christmas Day and a bit of jollity seems appropriate, and (b) I can't resist this one, so ...
Taking your examples, you'd get a chow, or a zeep (or shebra).
If you crossed a skunk with an owl, you'd have a bird that smells but doesn't give a hoot.
If you cross a sheep and a kangaroo, you get a woolly jumper.
If you cross a worm with an elephant, you get huge holes in your lawn.
If you cross a canary and an anaconda, you get a sing-a-long.
If you cross a chicken with a cow, you get roost beef.
If you cross a centipede with a parrot, you get a walkie-talkie.
If you cross a dinosaur and a pig, you get Jurassic Pork.
If you cross a chicken and a duck, you get a bird that lays down.
If you cross a cow and a duck, you get cream quakers.
And finally, if you cross a hungry cat and a roast duck, you get a duck-filled fatty puss :)
Merry Christmas !

Answer 6

Animals are usually unable to interbreed successfully, a few can hybridise but the offspring are almost always infertile.
Plants are another matter and hybrids are potentially more common than purestrain forms. In this case the Genus is what is imortant rather than the species.

Answer 7

Any sperm from any animal would have to be " keyed " to penetrate the zona pellucida of the other animals egg. Naturally, they would have to be genus close, to do this. Some of the examples you have been given fulfill this requirement. Sperm have chemical " keys " to species and variant type eggs. Non-species and not close variants would be denied access to the egg.

PS If animals do cross breed, they usually are hybrid and not enviable with unmatched chromosome numbers. This does make producing progeny difficult, as chromosome do not meioticly match up.

Answer 8

It depends on what level of genetics you refer to. Similar species cross and create hybrids...
(by the way, the first part of the name is generally the father, and the last part is the mother.)

Mule, a cross of female horse and a male donkey.
Hinny, a cross between a female donkey and a male horse.
A "Zeedonk", a zebra/donkey hybridZeedonk or zonkey, a zebra/donkey cross.
Zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross
Zony/zetland, a zebra/pony cross ("zony" is a generic term; "zetland" is specifically a hybrid of the Shetland pony breed with a zebra)
Dzo, zo or yakow: a cross between a domestic cow/bull and a yak. See also Bovid hybrids.
Beefalo/cattalo, a cross of an American Bison and a domestic cow. This is a fertile breed; this along with genetic evidence has caused them to be recently reclassified into the same genus, Bos. See also Bovid hybrids.
Zubron, a hybrid between Wisent (European Bison) and domestic cow.
Sheep-goat hybrids, such as the The Toast of Botswana.
Ursinae hybrids, such as the Grizzly-polar bear hybrid, occur between black bears, brown bears, Kodiak and polar bears.
Savannah cats are the hybrid cross between an African serval cat and a Domestic cat
Fertile Canid hybrids occur between coyotes, wolves, dingos, jackals and domestic dogs. Dogs and wolves may be considered the same species, making wolfdogs a non-hybrid.
Hybrids between Black & White Rhinos have been recognized.
Hybrids between spotted owls and barred owls
Ligers and Tigons (crosses between a Lion and a Tiger) and other Panthera hybrids such as the Lijagulep. Various other wild cat crosses are known involving the Lynx, Bobcat, Leopard, Serval, etc.
Bengal cat, a cross between the Asian Leopard cat and the domestic cat, one of many hybrids between the domestic cat and wild cat species. The domestic cat, African wild cat and European wildcat may be considered variant populations of the same species (Felis silvestris), making such crosses non-hybrids.
Cama, a cross between a Camel and a Llama, also an intergeneric hybrid.
Wolphin, a fertile but very rare cross between a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin.
A fertile cross between an albino King Snake and an albino Corn Snake.
At Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom, a cross between African elephant (male) and Indian elephant (female). The male calf was named Motty. It died of gut infection after twelve days.
Cagebird breeders sometimes breed hybrids between species of finch, such as Goldfinch x Canary. These birds are known as Mules.
Gamebird hybrids, hybrids between gamebirds and domestic fowl, including Chickens, Guineafowl and Peafowl, interfamilial hybrids.
Numerous Macaw hybrids are also known.
Red Kite x Black Kite: 5 bred unintentionally at a falconry center in England. (It is reported that the black kite (the male) refused female black kites but mated with two female red kites.)

Regarding sterility vs. fertility...

"Interspecific hybrids are bred by mating two species, normally from within the same genus. The offspring display traits and characteristics of both parents. The offspring of an interspecific cross may be sterile. Sterility is often attributed to the different number of chromosomes the two species have, for example donkeys have 62 chromosomes, while horses have 64 chromosomes, and mules and hinnies have 63 chromosomes. Mules, hinnies, and other normally sterile interspecific hybrids normally cannot produce viable gametes because the extra chromosome cannot make a homologous pair at meiosis, meiosis is disrupted, and viable sperm and eggs are not formed. However, fertility in both female mules and hinnies has been reported with a donkey as the father."

There is another type of cross species breeding called Chimera, which does not occur naturally. You can find more information on the link below.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 9

The definition of a species includes that it is biologically distinct so in theory the answer is no.

*However*, as god has a sense of humour he likes to play with the mind of scientists and 'bend' the rules occasionally, i.e. sometimes close is good enough!

i'm sure others will give numerous examples!

Answer 10

The cross-breeding of lions and tigers does not work well, as the offspring are sterile and short-lived. However, I think it is true that modern day bison are actually hybrids of bison and cattle.

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Heh, heh... researching this further on the 'Net, I see that the bison in Yellowstone are actually cattle/bison hybrids, as are most modern day bison. The meat from them is called "beefalo". Even more interesting, I think, is that yaks have also been cross-bred with cattle and bison, in the latter case producing "yakalo". No, I am not making this up - see the following Web page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovid_hybrid

Answer 11

Rabbits and Guinea pigs that where chinchillas come from. What would be good would be a Monkey and some sort of large bird giving you flying monkeys and also a chameleon and a badger crossed with a kangaroo. giving you a badger that's tough as hell that can change colour and box on it's two legs