{"id":603605,"date":"2024-05-30T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/?p=603605"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:06:40","slug":"animal-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/podcast\/animal-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"143\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9.png 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9-768x137.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9-150x27.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep9-696x124.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/7619e4c6-5de6-4851-af07-0e3d42e75f7d\/episodes\/94a15a6b-50c5-43e1-b78c-fb476d6e30b3\/embed?theme=light-gray-blue\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Have you ever wondered what would happen if you crossed a tiger with a shark? Nope that\u2019s not what a tiger shark is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Today, I\u2019m exploring the mystery of hybrid animals. Animals whose parents are members of different species. We\u2019re not talking Griffons, which are half Eagle, half lion, but there are some hybrid animals out there that are quite real.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"591\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-601959\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Podcast_Visual1-696x411.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What a surprising discovery had on Emma\u2019s trip to Spain! Hybrid animals? Isn\u2019t that\u2026 impossible? Don\u2019t hybrid animals come from mythology? Complete fiction?! How can there possibly \u201cpizzly bears\u201d out there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>THE QUESTION OF THE DAY:<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><em><strong><strong><em>Do hybrid animals really exist?<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603612\" style=\"width:764px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_zorse-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yes! Some of these hybrids might be encouraged by humans, but others happen completely normally in nature \u2013 like the coywolf: the baby of a wolf and coyote, or the mule \u2013 a hybrid of the horse and donkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most, but not all, of these hybrids are sterile. The liger or tigon (lion x tiger) and jalion (jaguar x lion). Two ligers can\u2019t have another liger baby, but a coywolf <em>can!<\/em> Wolfdogs are also fertile, barely a hybrid species, because of how close the two animals are genetically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some types hybrid animals (that are not sterile) have been bred specifically by humans to \u201ccreate\u201d new species. The Savannah cat breed for example, is a hybrid of the African Serval and the Domestic Cat, while the Bengal breed is a hybrid of the wild \u201cleopard cat\u201d and regular housecats.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"408\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah-768x313.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah-150x61.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pod_Seval-to-Savannah-696x284.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of cool hybrids out there, like the zorse (horse x zebra), beefalo (bison X cow), cama (camel x llama) and so many more! Are there any we haven\u2019t named that you can think of? Let us know!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"88\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Save-A-Message.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50049\" style=\"width:225px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Do you have a fun animal mystery you want us to explore?<\/strong><strong><br>Let us know in the comments in the Earth Rangers App!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what would happen if you crossed a tiger with a shark? Nope that\u2019s not what a tiger shark is. Today, I\u2019m exploring the mystery of hybrid animals. Animals whose parents are members of different species. 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