How Evolution Creates Hybrid Animals

[Techno-Druid]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MgXRJ_fys

So basically the video explains how certain species and subspecies hybridizing with one another allows the offspring to inherit certain benefits by inheriting traits useful from both parent's species or population.

[Gamdwelf]

If you can breed and produce viable offspring you probably are not a different species.

[Cthulhu 2020]

If you can breed and produce viable offspring you probably are not a different species.

This was my first thought, but the video addresses this and it's correct, there have been times when a hybrid offspring is actually viable and enough of them come around than an entirely new species occurs.

[medievalman1]

If you can breed and produce viable offspring you probably are not a different species.

Just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology).

[Gamdwelf]

This was my first thought, but the video addresses this and it's correct, there have been times when a hybrid offspring is actually viable and enough of them come around than an entirely new species occurs.

I said probably.

Coywolf is a pretty good example.

[Techno-Druid]

I said probably.

Coywolf is a pretty good example.

I'm sort of fascinated by the coywolf because usually wolves are an a dominant ecological niche over coyotes as secondary consumers. So does the coywolf generalise much like bears and raccoons do?

[Deleted]

If you can breed and produce viable offspring you probably are not a different species.

Thats a bit tauntologic isn't it but you are the expert for evolutions little eevee.

[Gamdwelf]

I'm sort of fascinated by the coywolf because usually wolves are an a dominant ecological niche over coyotes as secondary consumers. So does the coywolf generalise much like bears and raccoons do?

Yeah, much more than wolves they are smarter and stronger than coyotes but don't hunt in packs and are better at scavenging for food etc.

[AeneasBK]

Someone mentioned mules already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule

[Techno-Druid]

Someone mentioned mules already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule

To be fair, mules are at least not fully sterile. I say fully because females could potentially be fertile, but strangely male hybrids are rarely fertile...