There is some interest as to whether the cheetah can breed with any one of the big cats namely either the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. With these sorts of questions you have to go to Sarah Hartwell’s website which … Continue reading →
The message on the Instagram page of Friends for Life Rescue Network is that Rosalie has been adopted. She was rescued from the streets apparently as she came into Orange County Animal Care “severely hypothermic and dying. We pulled her … Continue reading →
Friends for Life Rescue Network in Los Angeles have rescued a couple of kittens that were known to have the Manx, tailless gene but they are also American Curl and Rex cats in my opinion. They appear to me to … Continue reading →
Cheetahs can’t mate with leopards because leopards attack and kill cheetahs in the wild and in captivity there have been no matings.
Continue reading →Tigons are very real. Charles Darwin (British naturalist and biologist famous for his theory of evolution) referred to them in 1861. There’s been a lot of breeding between male tigers and lionesses in captivity. Tigons are rarer than ligers (the … Continue reading →
This is a hybrid – not anatomically but digitally. It is a nice bit of photo-editing to create a picture of a cute rabbit-cat hybrid. When you first see it it looks alright but a bit strange. Then you realise … Continue reading →
This is a picture of a Sphynx cat hybrid by which I mean a hairless cat crossed with a normal domestic cat, probably a random bred cat. The cat lives in Russia. I believe the cat is a rescue cat. … Continue reading →
What is a leopon? A leopon is a cross between a male leopard and a lioness. These hybrids have been bred on a number of occasions in zoos. There are records of them being in zoos in Italy and Japan. … Continue reading →
Here are a couple of screenshots from a camera trap video in the Florida Everglades. The camera was positioned extremely well. The cat genuinely looks like a puma/bobcat hybrid. There is no escaping that conclusion. The cat is about the … Continue reading →
Hybrid vigor (vigour) is also called heterosis. When you introduce fresh genes into a breeding program the offspring may benefit from hybrid vigor. The offspring are healthier and sometimes larger.
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