Sanooja P.J

Optional : Natural Science

FMTC, Mylapore

SAVANNAH CATA Savannah cat is a cross

between a domestic cat and

the serval, a medium-sized,

large-eared wild African

cat. The unusual cross

became popular among

breeders at the end of the

1990s, and in 2001 the

International Cat

Association accepted it as a

new registered breed.

Beefalo Beefalo are a fertile hybrid offspringof domestic cattle, generally a male inmanaged breeding programscurrently, Bos taurus, and the Americanbison, usually a female in managedbreeding programs currently, Bison bison(generally called buffalo in the US). Thebreed was created to combine thecharacteristics of both animals for beefproduction.

The gayal The gayal (Bos frontalis), also known asmithun,

is a large semi-domesticated bovinedistributed

in north-eastern India, Bangladesh, northern

Myanmar and in the Yunnan Province of

China.[1]In the Adi language, gayal are called

eso; they are called subu by the Apatani and

Nyishi tribes, or often referred to as"mithun".

HinnyA hinny is a domestic equine

hybrid that is the offspring of

a horse stallion and a jenny

donkey. It is the reciprocal

cross to the more common

mule, which is the product of

a jack donkey and a horse

mare.

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger(Panthera tigris). Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. It is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon. It is the largest of all known extant felines.[1][2]

Ligers enjoy swimming, which is a characteristic of tigers, and are very sociable like lions. Ligers exist only in captivity because the habitats of the parental species do not overlap in the wild. Historically, when the Asiatic Lion was prolific, the territoriesof lions and tigers did overlap and there are legends of ligers existing in the wild. Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species, unlike tigons which tend to be about as large as a female tiger and is the cross between a male tiger and a lioness.