QUOTE(frogfish @ May 7 2006, 05:38 PM) [snapback]1178099[/snapback]
Which were bred in zoos...not in the wild...The only possible wild hybrids are wolf-coyotes...but they are very rare...Dog-wolves are the same subspecies...so they are not hybrids.
Actually, you'd be surprised to know that coyotes actually present a very ecologically important problem to the red wolf
Canis rufus, which is very quickly losing it's gene pool through mating with coyotes. It's a very sad thing... and is becoming alarmingly common, because the home ranges are being pressed closely together (probably due to man... YET AGAIN! sigh). However, they are of hte same genus,
Canis, which every dog is, and so can interbreed and produce sexually viable offspring, in theory... Sometimes barriers across space and time do allow a sort of inability to interbreed successfully, but this is not the case for the red wolf, sadly.
OK, assuming that the lion and tiger home range DID cross, that does not mean you would get interspecific mating at all. They would be more likely to try to kill (and maybe eat) each other than to mate. For one thing, the red squirrel
Sciurus vulgaris isn't under threat from the grey squirrel due to breeding... it's because
Sciurus caroliniensis can "survive" better, and is also responsible for habitat destruction as well.
QUOTE(psyche101 @ May 8 2006, 01:31 AM) [snapback]1178833[/snapback]
One needs to watch oneself around a horny teenaged anything
When my wifes teenage Son walks in our door, even the fish stop swimming. They know anything that moves is in trouble.......and if it doesn't move, he will give it a damn good kick!
... or he humps it til it DOES move

oohhh, to be a teen again... erm.. I mean...
QUOTE(psyche101 @ May 8 2006, 12:09 AM) [snapback]1178717[/snapback]
The worst part of all that is that; don't Lion's lso mate like 20 times a day?? I always hoped reincarnatrion was for real and I would return as a Lion, having second thoughts now.....

yeah... and it lasts like 20 SECONDS! Man that must suck! Going by what lionesses are like... no wonder they're so narky! They must be really unfulfilled!!
I'd hate to be a lion... 20 seconds!? I'd fear for my life! Or a gorilla for that matter... oh dear, I'm slipping into vulgarity again...
Frogfish, I have to say I admire your tenacity!

Although I do kinda feel sorry for Creeper. We have a saying here, you argue like a Rangers fan (that's Glasgow Rangers), because they never back down (even when they're wrong- not that I'm saying you're wrong at all). I'm enjoying this thread... Maybe I'm sick.
RKD