Animals of different species rarely get it on, and when they do, they rarely produce offspring. But even rarer than the ligers, zonkeys, camas, and beefalo of the world are hybrid animals capable of making babies of their own.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
– Hybrid organisms: The offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species or genera.
– Mitosis: A process of cell division that produces copies of the original cell.
– Meiosis: A process of cell dividion that produces new daughter cells with half the chromosome number of the original cell.
– Sex cell, or gamete: a cell that fuses with another cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce.
– Hemiclonal transmission: The rare occurence in which only maternal DNA gets passed along during the creation of sex cells.
Species featured in this video:
– Mule, is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare)
– Liger, is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris)
– Zonkey, is the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. Zebra hybrids are generally known as zebroids
– Beefalo, also known as cattalo, is the offspring of a domestic cattle (Bos taurus) and an American buffalo (Bison bison)
– Cama, is the offspring of a male dromedary camel and a female llama.
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Script Writer: David Goldenberg
Script Editor: Emily Elert
Video Illustrator: Chad Geran
Video Director: Emily Elert
Video Narrator: Emily Elert
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Alex Reich, Kate Yoshida, Ever Salazar, Omkar Bhagat, Peter Reich, Rachel Becker
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder
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Liger Hercules – Ed Quinn
Zonkey – Flickr user Leogirly4life
Cama – TaylorLlamas.com
Beefalo – Noah’s Ark Animal
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Ryder, O., Chemnick, L., Bowling, A., Benirschke, K. (1985). Male mule foal qualifies as the offspring of a female mule and Jack donkey. Journal of Heredity 76 (379-381). Retrieved from
C.J. Zhao, Y.H. Qin, X.H. Lee, Ch. Wu (2006). Molecular and cytogenetic paternity testing of a male offspring of a hinny. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics,123: 403-405. Retrieved from
Bucholz (2013). Colorado miracle mule foal lived short life, but was well-loved.The Denver Post. Retrieved from
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Because this life Wena.
Mules are healthy and oldest hybrid produced by humans or nature we don't know, i think they can have children if we know gene editing it will be a gift for the nature because mules are smarter than horses and donkeys
In rare instances, mules can produce foals.
Could also be a male horse and female donkey.
Pigs DO fly. The UK has bacon flown in from Denmark.
no Mojo
Because only humans have babies. Mules have colts.
Because they are a donkey and a horse 🐎 it's a breed they created that can't reproduce.
It's becouse when baby Jesus was born the mule in the Manger refused to come close to give Jesus warmth so mary cursed it and said I curse you not to ever have babys and feel that Love.
They need to breed with their own kind.
There has been a couple of incidents of births
🐴Thank you🐴
That was useless information.
You don,t change animals creatures. GOD. Made them. Exactly what their suppose to be STOP TAMPERING WITH GOD,S. CREATTION
0:36 Nigerians don't say that,lol.
We say "unless they k1ll God"
I’m sure it has something to do with the patriarchy and the 4B movement
Because I magically teleport to every male mule the second they are born and kick them in the babymaker.
Now, when pigs fly, they have to pay for two seats.
Miles ate not serial the can ms te only with male horses or male donkeys get yoir facts straight you insane not fact checking morons
So now can you explain a woman to the woke?
Because the Mule was mutant from Gaia…🤷🏾♂️
Mules prove that Evolution is not a random process of mutations. The foal of a donkey and horse is born a mule but impotent so it cannot begin a new species of itself. And these bred animals have gone on for thousand years but never has a mule by random chance been born able to procreate it's own kind . So Evolution is not a true explanation but only a partial reason why life forms vary.
Its kind of the reverse of it since chickens are actually barefoot, but in lebanon when wishing someone good health we say in lebanon "May Allah give you good health, as long as chickens are barefoot!"
Interesting. They probably can still foal because God considered them a good field work animal and knew they wouldnt cause a major imbalance in nature as far as symbiotic relationships go because they live their lives fenced in human enclosures.
I learned something new today.
hold on how did donkeys exists thousands of years ago
For the same reason Demorats can't think.
I live in turkey and I have never heard anyone say"when a fish climbs a tree" 😊
I will listen out for it 😅
Mules are so backwards they try to cough them up.
So sad this doesn't happen wi5h humans 😮
LMAO,, what a moron.
Because they are trans
@MinuteEarth — How many generations would it take before you had mules reliably reproducing with other mules?
White erasure [kGA7xUIwgT0], antiWhiteism [PLiG4iW9_vU], and antiWhite narrative [w-4R5RN4N5Y | AOgCE6tF9TQ].
Did not live long enough.
When cop comes at night.
um, a Mexicans dick isn't long enough?
Hi. You didn't need to tell me that mules cant have babies. But thanks anyway.
Nigerians don't say that
Jack Asses and Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce 👈
They are sterile
Usually they can't have babies, but there about 60 cases documented, when mules did have babies.