Remember the moment in NAPOLEON DYNAMITE when our endearingly awkward teen hero proclaims the liger “pretty much [his] favorite animal ever” due in no small part to being bred for its magical powers?
Well, have a gander at the lead photo in this tour of 18 hybrid animals that, incredibly, actually exist today. Yes, that is indeed what happens when a Daddy Lion and Mommy Tiger love each other very much. Below, feast your eyes upon a tigon, the end product when a trusting lady lion from the savannah comes down with a case of jungle fever makes some sweet humpity-bumpity with a studly tiger.
Awww, yeah. Nature, baby.
To be a bit more accurate, yes, a number of these curious wild “oopsies” grew from various and sundry species apparently not always being especially picky about whose Rod A goes into whose Slot B. That’s how we end up with curiosities such as the coywolf, a not-infrequent-at-all blending of the closely genetically aligned wolf and coyote. In other instances, however, we get creations such as the savannah cat, a mixed breeding of domestic cats with servals that are questionably legal to own and highly expensive.
Hey, Mother Nature, whatever twists your Twizzler.
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- Jaglion (Male Jaguar + Female Lion)
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- Zonkey (Zebra + Donkey)
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- Zebroid (Zebra + Any Other Equine)
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- Mulard (Mallard + Muscovy Duck)
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- Żubroń (Cow + European Bison)
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- Beefalo (Buffalo + Cow)
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- Savannah Cat (Domestic Cat + Serval)
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- Liger ( Male Lion + Female Tiger)
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- Hinny (Female Donkey + Male Horse)
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- Cama (Camel + Llama)
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- Leopon (Male Leopard + Female Lion)
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- Wholphin (Male False Killer Whale + Female Bottlenose Dolphin)
Source – BoredPanda
