A Geep or Shoat is the hybrid between a Sheep and a Goat. While Sheep and Goats may seem similar, they belong to different genera in the Bovidae family. That’s why mating the two often results in a stillborn offspring and hybrids are very rare.
In 2000 at the Botswana Ministry of Agriculture, a male sheep and a female goat mated, and the offspring lived to see the light of the day. It had a rough outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long legs like a Goat and a Sheep-like body. However, it was infertile.(source)
A Dzo is a hybrid between a wild Yak and domestic cattle. The word ‘Dzo’ actually refers to the male variant while the female is known as a Dzomo or Zhom.
The Dzo is larger and stronger than it’s pa[rent species because of the hybrid genetic phenomenon of heterosis (hybrid vigor). Dzomos are fertile, while Dzos are sterile.
In Mongolia and Tibet, they are widely accepted as more productive than cattle or yaks, both in terms of milk production and meat.(source)
Coywolf, also called Woyote is genetically close to red and eastern wolves. They’ve diverged only about 150-300,000 years ago. Interbreeding between these species is becoming increasingly common. However, hybrids between Coywolfs and Eurasian gray wolves are extremely rare.
This hybrid animal is often larger than Coyotes. Eastern wolf-coyote hybrids can be seen forming more cooperative social groups and are less aggressive with each other than Pure Coyotes.(source)
A Savannah cat is a cross between a domestic cat and the Serval, a wild African cat. This hybrid animal was popular in the end-1990s. In 2001 the International Cat Association accepted it as a new breed. In May 2012, TICA accepted it as a championship breed.
The first Savannah cat was produced on 7th April, 1986 when a A Bengal breeder called Judee Frank crossbred Suzi Woods’ male Serval with a domestic cat.
Each generation of Savannahs is marked with a filial number. First generation filials are extremely difficult to produce. That’s of the huge gap in each breed’s gestation periods. Pregnancies are often absorbed or aborted. Sometimes kittens are also born prematurely. Servals can also be very picky in choosing mates. They won’t just mate with any random domestic cat!(source)
A Jaglion is what you get when you mate a male Jaguar and a female Lion. They are extremely rare as they can’t survive in the wild as very few of their males are fertile.
Two Jaglions were born in Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary unintentionally on 9th April, 2006 as the Jaguar called Diablo and the lioness Lola mated. Lola gave birth to Jahzara and Tsunami. The female Tsunami has spots, but Jahzara inherited his dad’s dominant melanism gene.(source)
