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Asked by totman98 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by sparks, tobes123.
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Laura Waters answered on 14 Mar 2012:
I can’t imagine this would ever work for a whole load of reasons.
Colchester Zoo has some zebra-donkey animals they call zeedonks!
Very cute photo:
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Lena Ciric answered on 14 Mar 2012:
You can do it with come closely related species. Mules and asses are the result of interbreeding of a horse and a donkey. Most of the offspring are sterile though, which means they can’t reproduce.
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Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:
Generally different species cannot mate and reproduce because of genetic differences.
Comments
totman98 commented on :
awww they are so cute 😉 thank youx
10harveyc commented on :
They have selectively breeded rabbits and jellyfish so they glow green in the dark 🙂
Sean commented on :
I think your referring to genetically engineered rabbits, where they have added a jellyfish protein that makes them glow. This is really interesting, but a bit different to breeding.
Lena commented on :
Yes. That’s right. They used the green fluorescent protein from the jelly fish to make Alba the rabbit: http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/03_02/bunny_art.shtmlhttp://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/03_02/bunny_art.shtml
yazzybee commented on :
That’s so cool!! And also a bit weird! The rabbit glows in the dark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!