WAIMANALO, Oahu, Hawaii -- The world's only known living hybrid of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin known as a "wholphin" has given birth to a female calf.
The hybrid mother, Kekaimalu, gave birth about a 100 days ago.
Her baby female calf, yet to be named, is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths dolphin.
HONOLULU — The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.
Most certainly not "all" hybrids are sterile... otherwise there would be no variation in species. For example, the many different breeds of dogs have come about through selective hybrid breeding, if all hybrids were sterile then there would only be one species of all animals. It might depend on how far "across" the family tree the hybrids roam as to whether or not they're sterile??? Just a thought...
godisgovernment
in Kansas
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 | 01:01 PM
If every species is related, through common ancestry, then you can eventualy connect all species through breeding. The obsticals are things such as blood type and sperm size.
The reason some species breed together better, is becouse they interbreed in cycles. The wolf will breed whith the coyotee when its numbers are low. This interbreeding is common today, becouse their numbers are low (thats are fault). The evolutionary tree twist like rosebushes wrapping around each other. Its only when a species is seperated from another for a long period of time that they grow apart. The changes become to severe to be reconciable. Also species don't change untill their numbers are low, becouse of sexual preferance. If the mutant is the only one left to f-ck its more likely to breed. A coyote wont score with a wolf unless the wolf has got nothing else to screw. This is why the number of fossils during a time of great change is few. I mean do you know how rare it is for a body to become a fossil?
So low population density equals change, and less bodies equals a lower likelyhood of finding any evidence.
Now if you want a hoax, talk to those I.D. f-cks in Kansas.
If you want to find real hoaxes check the skeptic societies homepage, they will find them for you. Their cool like that.
For instance the forged test results for prayer effects, and the forged test results for cannibus addiction test.
Or how about this one, the government says condoms have a 14 percent fail rate, but thats accounting for inconsistent use. If you don't use the condom how does it fail?
They say that you have to use it correctly to get the 3 to 1 percent failure rates (failure rates are for 1 years use) but then they wont tell you how to use them. Now thats bullshit. http://www.skeptic.com is the place to go, for all your hoax finding needs. Also check the W.H.O website.
If you want to read a hoax, check out whitehouse.gov. Theyre filled with them.
Or how about this one, the government says condoms have a 14 percent fail rate, but thats accounting for inconsistent use. If you don't use the condom how does it fail?
This sounds very different to the statistics quoted by the UK government...
And my hoax finding needs are met here, thanks very much.
kainania
in mexico
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 | 05:25 PM
the wolphin is 100% real, i am a marine mammal and exotic animal trainer at the hawaii sea life park were she was born, her name is Kawili Kai which means "mix of the ocean" or "blend of the ocean" in polinesian. and ligers CAN breed
vega
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 | 07:42 PM
In addition to ligers, hinnies (that is, the offspring of a stallion and a jenny) are fertile. We don't see many hinnies around because they aren't bred often; they don't have the same size and strength as a mule and are seen as less useful.
A number of duck species also regularly interbreed and produce fertile offspring. The hybrid "picks" a species to mate with, and the genes are absorbed into one or the other species.
The "able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring" standard is a conveient and simple way of defining species boundaries. Too bad it doesn't work.
