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Hybrid Animals

What do you get when you mix a cow and a buffalo? A beefalo. What do you get when you mix a zebra and a horse? A zorse, of course. These may sound like silly jokes told by a preschooler, but these animals do exist and there are many other combinations of animals. A hybrid animal is the offspring of two different species or populations (Wikipedia). There are already hybrid animals in existence that occur in nature and some that are being created by science. In this paper, some examples, characteristics, problems, and ethical considerations of hybrid animals will be discussed.
There are many types of hybrid animals in existence today. The liger has recently become popular due to the movie "Napoleon Dynamite," in which the protagonist proclaims ligers to be his favorite animal (www.nationalgeographic.com/news). The liger is the offspring of a lion and tiger and there have been reports of its existence since 1861 when Darwin commented on this phenomenon in his book, The......


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