06-19-2006, 08:35 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Hybrid animals
http://www.hemmy.net/2006/06/19/top-10-hybrid-animals/
This is an facinating article I read on hybrid animals. It is a top 10 list of hybrids. I had no idea there were lots of viable kinds of hybrids. I was under the impression that most that weren't ligers\tigons or mules\hinnies were unable to survive. I'm sorry for the formatting; there were lots of pictures in the article so the c\p doesn't look very good. I would encourage all who are interested to click the link so they can see the pictures. Quote:
I believe that while hybrids are pretty damn cool, I think that they should only be bred for a specific purpose or job. I don't think it is good to create them just because we can. If the animals naturally find each other and mate, let them do that. I just don't see a benefit to mankind from making most of these animals. I mean, the benefit of a mule is unmistakable, but what human good does a pizzly bear serve?
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06-19-2006, 08:39 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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These things do occur in the wild as well. There was a wild Polar/Grizzly killed about a month ago in the north...
I don't have any issue with this... and I base this mostly on the mule.
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06-19-2006, 10:28 AM | #3 (permalink) | |
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06-19-2006, 10:58 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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There was a time last year when I was fully prepared to throttle the next teenage boy who made mention of a tigon/liger and then laughed uproariously. It was some kind of obsession among the boys at the middle school where I was teaching, and they all thought there was something extraordinarily funny about it. At one point I had to tell them that the next time someone comes up and asks me "Did you know there is such a thing as a tigon/liger" would be writing a 1000 word essay on the subject.
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06-19-2006, 11:12 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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I figure they're no more useful than if we bread a grizzly bear with another grizzly bear. In captivity they don't serve any purpose aside from being nice to look at in zoos. Same with most other animals like Pandas. At least by breeding a lion and a tiger or a grizzly and polar bear we learn about the distance between two animals they genetically can be before you don't have a viable animal. There's at least some biological science behind why it might be useful to breed some of these animals.
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06-19-2006, 11:19 AM | #7 (permalink) | |
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06-19-2006, 11:20 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
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06-19-2006, 11:24 AM | #9 (permalink) |
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I don't have any problem at all with hybrid animals being bred as long as it isn't done in a labratory. I do have a real problem with scientist adding cockroach genes to tomatos and spiders to goats and pigs to humans. These things aren't natural and could end up creating super bacterias or plagues that could be devestating to the original species and other forms of life.
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06-19-2006, 11:25 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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eh... i don't have any real opinion on this matter.
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06-19-2006, 11:31 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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What's wrong with the animals that they have to mate outside their own species They couldn't get anyone in their own genus/species to pay the attention?
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06-19-2006, 11:37 AM | #12 (permalink) | |
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Was it an Austin Powers/Beavis and Butthead type of thing where we're supposed to be laughing at what an idiot the character is for doing and saying these things, but they somehow miss the point and start imitating the character as if he were "cool"? It sure has that flavor. Gilda |
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06-19-2006, 11:37 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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Damn... And I thought I was going to find an article here on how to get better MPG out of my cocker spaniel.
If the animals try to mate and it works, let them. It's another way to push evolution. And hey, can you imagine being a lion, looking over to see some sexy tiger ass, and not wanting to go over there and buy her a few drinks?. |
06-19-2006, 11:39 AM | #14 (permalink) | |
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06-19-2006, 11:43 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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06-19-2006, 11:43 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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I just have one little thing that I have to say. Toaster126's question was whether or not it was ethical to create these animals. So far, the general concensus seem's to be that it is o.k. as long as the animals can be of some USE. I could be wrong, but I always thaught that one of the basic rules of ethics/morality was never to USE something for personal gain.
With that being said, I think that it is o.k. as long it could happen in the wild naturally, but I am against creating those animals which can only be created through major unnatural gross manipulation. |
06-19-2006, 12:04 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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Some people use the point that animals would rather enjoy being left to their own devices, and I usually use a working dog as an example. Dogs are at their happiest when they are working with a pack\team\leader to accomplish things. I admit some animals don't seem to get pleasure out of doing tasks, but it seems that the more useful the animal, the more it likes doing useful shit.
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That said, I don't have an ethical problem with using animals to work (or to eat for that matter). I also don't have a problem with these hybrids if there is a useful purpose to it (beyond the "here's a monkey with four asses", "let's do it because we can" purpose). Quote:
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06-19-2006, 12:54 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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I don't have any view of ethics.
It's not much different than religion as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, what a great contrib. I knew of a couple of these - but not most of them. Quite mind-expanding ! Thanks, Art
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06-19-2006, 03:58 PM | #22 (permalink) |
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Call me crazy (Sage yer crazy) but they are doing it in the wild... I choose to call it the next stage in evolution... It may well be a future way to prevent extinction... but thats a whole new subject. I have no control over it and the ligon in the pics is stunning!
To me its no different than breeding yorkiepoos or poogles. We breed pure bred dogs to our taste and cats too and no one pitches a hissy. |
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