The world is full of surprises: unusual natural phenomena, unique body parts people have and cool stuff from the animal kingdom. In these video I'm gonna show you 16 hybrid animals you'd never believe actually exist... Nature seems to have experimented a lot!
What's the mix you'd expect the least? In this video you'll see a slug which is part plant, part animals. You'll meet a jaglion, which is a mix of a jaguar and a lion... One of the most unexpected mixture is a zebroid - a mixture between a zebra and any equine species. More hybrid animals are coming your way...
00:00The Liger is probably the most popular hybrid animal and an incredibly large cat.
00:11You won't see them in the wild.
00:13People most deliberately breed them.
00:15Lions and tigers don't even inhabit the same areas.
00:19So, a Liger is a mix of a male lion and a female tiger.
00:23And they can grow to be very big in a pretty short period of time.
00:27They're actually the biggest cats in the world.
00:30Hercules, the largest recorded Liger, is a real example of that.
00:35922 pounds and 10.8 feet long.
00:39Imagine taking him for a walk.
00:41Ligers are mostly way bigger than either of their parents.
00:44In most cases, they behave and look more like lions than tigers.
00:49But they have some tiger traits too.
00:51For example, striped backs.
00:54And they're crazy about swimming.
00:55The Tigin.
00:58Nobody could fault you for thinking the Tigin and Liger are basically the same animal.
01:03I mean, they're both a combination of tigers and lions.
01:06But a Tigin comes from a crossbreeding of a male tiger and a female lion.
01:11They're usually smaller than their parents.
01:14And definitely much smaller than their giant, could you call them siblings?
01:18In most cases, they inherit charming looks from their tiger fathers.
01:23But they get some interesting traits from their mother's side too.
01:26For example, love for socialization and the ability to roar.
01:31Hands down, one of the rarest hybrid animals in the world are wolfens.
01:35These fellas are a mash-up of a female bottlenose dolphin and a male false killer whale.
01:42Its name might make you think differently.
01:44But a false killer whale belongs to the dolphin family.
01:47They're not even related to killer whales.
01:50Wolfens are such an interesting 50-50 mix and balance of their parents.
01:54They have dark gray skin, the perfect blend of a black false killer whale and light gray dolphin skin.
02:01Dolphins have anywhere between 80 and 100 teeth.
02:05False killer whales have 44.
02:07And their hybrid young is halfway, with 66 teeth in total.
02:12What would it look like if algae and a slug paired?
02:15No need to imagine.
02:16You have a green sea slug to check the result.
02:19It lives in salt marshes in Canada and New England.
02:22And it's possibly the weirdest hybrid creature you'll see in this video, and in general.
02:27Part plant, part animal.
02:30So, some slugs seem to have been very sneaky while stealing the genes from innocent algae that they have eaten to enable them to look like this.
02:39Since they're partially a plant, they can produce the plant pigment called chlorophyll.
02:44That means these unusual slugs can even photosynthesize.
02:48That's the process plants use to turn sunlight into energy.
02:52So, they produce their own molecules that contain energy, without having to eat anything at all.
02:58When scientists first discovered it, a green sea slug was the first case of a multicellular animal that's able to produce chlorophyll.
03:07What do you get when you mix a male leopard and a female lion?
03:10You get an interesting hybrid called a leppin.
03:14These animals grow to be almost as big as lions, but they still have shorter legs, similar to their father leopard.
03:20They inherit some of his other traits too, like a love for climbing and swimming.
03:24You can have a union with a male lion and a female leopard too, and the result is called a leipard.
03:32Male lions are usually around 10 feet long and weigh about 500 pounds.
03:36The female leopard is way smaller, only 5 feet long with a weight of about 80 pounds.
03:42The difference in size here is too big, so this pairing really doesn't happen that often.
03:47Okay, how about a buffalo and a cow?
03:51When you were little, maybe you thought that they could be a good match.
03:54But in reality, the combination creates an unusual hybrid animal called a beefalo.
04:00Not many types of hybrid animals can reproduce on their own, but a beefalo can do it.
04:05When a grizzly and a polar bear get together, it results in a growler bear, or bizley bear, or grizzlar, whichever you like the most.
04:14You can see them even in the wild.
04:17These two types of bears have a mutual contempt for one another.
04:21Yep, they're not good at living together in a mutual habitat.
04:24But even though it's rare, the love can still happen and result in these cute caramel-colored hybrid growler bears.
04:32In most cases, they'll be a bit smaller than polar bears.
04:36On average, 60 inches tall at the shoulder.
04:39An approximate weight, 1,000 pounds.
04:41But they're well-equipped for surviving in warmer climates.
04:44Thanks to the genes they got from their grizzly family side.
04:48Now let's get to one pretty tough fella.
04:51The Jaglion.
04:52As its name implies, it's the hybrid of a jaguar and a lion.
04:57We don't know much about these intriguing big cats, because only a few of them exist.
05:01But there was an unintentional mixing between a black jaguar and a lioness, which eventually resulted in two jaglion cubs.
05:09One had a dark gray coat with black spots, because of the dominant melanin gene black jaguars usually have.
05:16The other one had a lion color and the rosette pattern spots that remind you of a jaguar.
05:22Yep, you already know it.
05:24There are also liguars, a hybrid of a female jaguar and a male lion.
05:29That's some colorful family.
05:31Speaking of wild cats, have you ever heard of a savannah cat?
05:35Savannah cats are in both categories of house pets and exotic hybrids, since they're a mix of a domestic cat and a wild African serval hybrid animal.
05:44We're talking about striking animals, almost as big as a domestic cat.
05:49But what gives them their exotic look are their tall bodies, slender forms, and spotted coats.
05:55These cats are extremely loyal, intelligent, and loving creatures.
05:59Here's one unexpected mixture.
06:01A zebroid.
06:03Technically, it's a name people use to describe a hybrid of a zebra and any equine species.
06:09But when you pair a zebra and a horse, their young is called a zorse.
06:15Zebra hybrids mostly look like whichever animals they've been crossbred with, but with the striped coat of a pure zebra.
06:22Most of these hybrid creatures don't even have fully striped coats.
06:25You can mostly see the stripes on non-white areas of their bodies and legs.
06:30Speaking of zebra hybrids, check out this adorable creature.
06:34It's called a zonkey.
06:36Or zedong.
06:37Zebras.
06:38Zanki.
06:38Eh, take your pick.
06:40They're mostly either tan, gray, or brown in color.
06:44You'll distinguish them by unique stripes that are darkest on their legs and belly.
06:48Unlike some hybrids, such as the liger, zonkeys can normally live in the wild.
06:54In fact, that's where you can find them, living life to the fullest across savannas and open woodland, mostly in Africa.
07:01Can you guess what a geep is?
07:03Yep, a combination of goat and sheep.
07:06And definitely one of the most adorable and cuddliest hybrid creatures in this video.
07:11Geeps are very rare.
07:13Some experts even believe it's possible that they're not true hybrids, but just sheep with certain genetic abnormalities.
07:20After all, sheep and goats do carry different numbers of chromosomes, which means cross-species mixes are almost impossible.
07:27When a camel and a llama get together, you get a cute little thing called a kama.
07:33Similar to beefalo, the kama also produces the best economic traits of both its parents.
07:39The first one was born in 1998.
07:42Kamas don't have camel humps.
07:45Their body is covered in soft, fleecy fur, similar to their llama side of the family.
07:49They can drink big amounts of water at a time, so they can survive with almost no water at all for pretty long periods.
07:57The koi wolf is a hybrid where nothing looks that unusual to most people, since the coyote and the wolf are not that drastically different in their looks.
08:06After all, these two species only diverged around 200,000 years ago.
08:11Now they're still able to mate and bring koi wolf cubs to the world.
08:15People living in eastern Canada and the U.S. might be familiar with these smart, adaptable animals that inhabit their forests, neighborhood parks, or sometimes even cities.
08:25These hybrids have emerged over the past century or so.
08:29And they've picked up the characteristics of both their parents.
08:32When a koi wolf is fully grown, it's somewhere in between the size of both parents.
08:37But it's also 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, and has a bigger jaw, longer legs, smaller ears, and a bushier tail.
08:47Check out the narluga, an extremely rare creature whose parents are a narwhal and a beluga whale.
08:53It's a pretty strange animal, but far from being lonely, they mostly live in the North Atlantic.
08:59Scientists had suspected their existence for decades.
09:01In 1990, they found an unusual-looking whale skull located in an Inuit hunter's tool shed in Greenland.
09:09People from that area said that there were other similar-looking animals, and they fit the description of neither a beluga whale nor a narwhal.
09:17People said they had gray skin, narwhal-like tails, and beluga-like flippers.
09:22Narwhals and beluga whales are similar in size, and they share a family, the monodontidae family.
09:28So, it may not even be that surprising that they're able to successfully breed in the wild.
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