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disproved in 1953, when a 15 year old liger was successfully mated with a male lion. The cub survived intoadulthood, despite having poor health.

At Jungle Island, a theme park in Miami, you can see Hercules. Hercules is a huge liger, with a weight reachingover 410Kg. Hercules holds the Guinness World record for being the largest big cat in the world. He is veryhealthy and is expected to live a long and happy life.

3) Zebroid (zebra and horse)A zebroid is the offspring of across between a zebra and anyother equine, usually a horse or adonkey. There are zorses,zonkeys, zonies and a host ofother combinations. Zebroids arean interesting example of hybridsbred from species that have aradically different number ofchromosomes. For instance,horses have 64 chromosomes andzebra have between 32 and 44(depending on species). Even so,nature finds a way.

4) Cama

A cama is a hybrid of two animals fromdifferent worlds camels from Asia,and llamas from South America. Thetwo species exhibit many differences,but camels and llamas are bothcamelids descended from a commonancestor that evolved in North America

during the Palaeogene period. Camaswere produced via artificialinsemination to create an animal withthe size and strength of the camel, butthe more cooperative temperament ofthe llama. The unlikely fertilization wasa success, but the result wasn't quitewhat breeders had hoped. Camasexhibit a camel-like temperament, but

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they are attracted to female llamas. (Proof that opposites really do attract!)

5) Beefalo

Beefalo are the fertile offspring ofdomestic cattle and American bison.Crosses also exist between domesticcattle and European bison (zubrons),and yaks (yakows). The name given tobeefalo might be the most suggestive,since the breed was purposely createdto combine the best characteristics ofboth animals with an eye towardsbeef production. A USDA studyshowed beefalo meat, like bisonmeat, tended to be lower in fat andcholesterol. They are also thought toproduce less damage to rangeland

than cattle.

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