Re: About hybrids




"Paul Ciszek" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <dbr3qb$2al1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> McEve <catfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Can you give an example of this?
>
> Cattle are genus Bos; the American Bison is genus Bison. These
> can be crossed to any degree; in fact, as I understand it none of
> the bison around today can be guaranteed to be be pure bison--most
> have some cow in their ancestry.

Darn, I just lost a dollar :P I might have gotten away with the bison
example, as they used to be listed as Bos, but I can't worm my way out of
wolphin....

url:http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Hybrid.htm

"fertile but very rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. "

url:http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=180415



Thanks to all that help sort this one out :)



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