It’s not unusual to breed different species together, in fact, that’s how we ended up with animals like mules. However, sometimes crossbreeding looks like a Photoshopped creature rather than something that actually exists.
Check out these 14 animal hybrids that, believe it or not, are actually real.
The tigon is the offspring of a male tiger and female lion.
A zebroid is used to describe any hybrid between a zebra and an equine, and here we have pictured a zebra-donkey hybrid.
The offspring of a male leopard and a female lion is a leopon, but they are only produced in captivity and are highly unlikely to occur in the wild.
Photography: Imgur.com
Also known as a pizzly bear, grizzlar and polar grizz, this creature is a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly bear and occurs naturally in the wild.
Photography: Facebook
The Savannah is a cross between a domestic cat and a serval — a medium-sized African cat.
Photography: Wikimedia Commons
This rare hybrid between a male camel and a female llama can’t be produced in the wild but is done artificially because it produces more wool and has a more gentle disposition.
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More common than its tigon counterpart, a liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. It’s the largest of all known felines.
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The Bengal cat is a hybrid of domestic cats and Asian leopards and they originated in Bengal, India.
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A caraval, also known as a cara-serval, is the cross between a male caracal and a female serval. They’re a domesticated cat that are bred for the pet market.
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Similar to the zebroid, a zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. The zorse is a sterile breed, so it can’t breed itself.
Photography: Christa Lesté-Lasserre
While the coywolf doesn’t vary greatly from the coyote, the hybrid has slightly different behavior traits. They can interbreed and are descended from coyotes and eastern and grey wolves.
Photography: PBS.org
Beefalo are part bison and part bovine, which is a fertile hybrid of domestic cattle and the bison. They are bred for beef production.
Photography: Wikimedia Commons
This domesticated cat is a cross between a Bengal (a hybrid mentioned earlier) and an oriental shorthair cat. The goal was to create a domesticated cat that looked like a serval but without any of recent wild cat blood.
Photography: Wikimedia Commons
The coydog is a hybrid resulting from a male coyote and female dog. They are sometimes found in the wild.
Photography: wolfdogproject.com