There are wild hybridizations happening all the time! Here are five weird and wild hybrids that aren’t just cool but could teach us something too.
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1:06 Arctic Oddballs
3:43 Bouncing Baby Bears
6:01 Iguana Mermaids
8:31 Combo Sharks
10:25 Mallard Merger
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Sources:
Bears
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40512895
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379758
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/mec.13038
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4766217.stm
Sharks
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27774596/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-011-0298-6
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232804889_Detection_of_interspecies_hybridisation_in_Chondrichthyes_Hybrids_and_hybrid_offspring_between_Australian_Carcharhinus_tilstoni_and_common_C_limbatus_blacktip_shark_found_in_an_Australian_fishery
Iguanas
https://peerj.com/articles/6291/
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb05822.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6795429/#pone.0222884.ref028
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0425?rss=1
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/island-profile-santa-fe/
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/galapagos-pink-land-iguana/
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/land-iguana/
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/wildlife/marine-iguana/
Mallards
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/maps-range
https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-019-0159-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-005-4978-y
https://www.utep.edu/science/lavretskylab/Articles/2021.Lawson-et-al.JWM_ddRAD.NC.ABDU.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319550216_Hybridization_between_Mottled_Ducks_Anas_fulvigula_maculosa_and_Mallards_A_platyrhynchos_in_the_western_Gulf_Coast_region
https://www.utep.edu/science/lavretskylab/Articles/2021.Lawson-et-al.JWM_ddRAD.NC.ABDU.pdf
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mottled_Duck/lifehistory#conservation
Whales
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44038-0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/27/narluga-is-strange-hybrid-its-far-alone/
IMAGE SOURCES
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liger_couple.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_Whale_Narwhal_150.JPG
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44038-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Narwhal_hybridisation.webp
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monodon_monoceros_MuMo.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grolar.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ulukhaktok_PolarGrizz.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_arctos_horribilis_map.svg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89826295
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conolophus_subcristatus_259868.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Plaza_Island_01.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_iguana.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lissjasmin/976655762/in/photolist-7hMn3J-2uiBJs-kgtnE2-x4ZwDo
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35448775
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80359201
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31030178
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21416641
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mottled_Duck.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anas_platyrhynchos_%C3%97_fulvigula.jpg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92586570
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101755022
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:027_-_MALLARD_(Northern_x_Mexican_hybrid_male)_(12-5-2016)_farmington,_san_juan_co,_new_mexico_-a_(2)_(31325485210).jpg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31030178
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2011/12/world-first-discovery-of-hybrid-sharks-australias-east-coast
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_iguana.jpg
https://bit.ly/3BwS8yI
https://bit.ly/3uTsUqh
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