Definitions
- Liaisons: A close working cooperation that leads to a relationship between 2 different species of animals.
- Niche: A position or role taken by an animal within its community.
- Hybrid: An animal that was bred by 2 different animal species
- Trainers at Hawaii Sea Life Park were shocked when a female bottlenose dolphin gave birth to a hybrid wholphin.
- The wholphin resembled the male false killer whale, which the bottlenose dolphin shared a pool with.
- There are many human-bred animal hybrids like zorses (zebra-horse), beefalo (bison-beef cattle), and mules (donkey-horse).
- Natural occurring hybrids have many long-term problems like where the offspring cannot reproduce. Another problem is that they hybrid offspring will usually be outnumbered and out-competed by non hybrid parent species.
- Some positives from hybrids are that the offspring might be able to adapt to environment conditions that its parents couldn't live in.
- Another example of hybrids is the sand sunflower, the desert sunflower, and the puzzle sunflower. These three hybrid species are all offspring of the common sunflower and prairie sunflower.
- Hybrids may be able to survive in nature if they change their niche from their parents.
- Biologists, after the discovery of hybrid animals, must now reshape their picture of species as independent units.
- I think it is interesting how animals can naturally have hybrid offspring just by living in the same pool or area.
- I never knew that animals could mate with an animal of another species without human breeding.
- It is fascinating that the hybrid offspring can have similar characteristic combinations of both of its parents.
- How does the mind of animals work to make it decide whether to mate with an animal of the same species or of a different species?
- Which characteristics does the offspring inherit from its parents?
- How often do animals naturally have hybrid offspring?
- Can any 2 species of animals mate and have hybrid offspring or only specific combinations?
- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14creatures.html?ref=science
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I think breeding different animals together can be a useful technique for different things. Scientists should be able to breed many different animals, if they mate with each other, new species can be invented for different foods.The different types of food that feeds the animal can also have an impact on the type of species. Overall, I think your post is very good
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely useful information, and it changes the way scientists think about biology now. However, can any two species be bred to create a hybrid? This is interesting because the hybrid offspring has its own niche, which many scientists need to determine. Your definitions helped me to understand the summary, and the questions you raise are very valid, leaving the reader with the same questions as yours.
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