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What's the different between hybrids and breeds (as in dogs for example)?
by malkia 13y ago
What's the different between hybrids and breeds (as in dogs for example)?
- ronaldx 13y agoA simple way to define a 'species' is any group of creatures that can produce viable, fertile offspring. So dogs are breeds - they're part of the same species - because if you mate a great dane with a chihuahua, you'll get a fertile dog (I believe; if you plan to experiment, I recommend the chihuahua is male and great dane is female). If you're lucky, that dog will have desirable characteristics that may one day end up being the parent of a new breed. But horses and donkeys are not breeds - they're different species - because if you mate them you get a mule which is not fertile (a hybrid, therefore). In the end, this definition is a bit too simplistic because it's not necessarily always so clear-cut. Hence the article here :)
- nitrogen 13y agoI would expect that a "breed" should also be stable. That is, pairings between male and female members of the same breed should produce offspring of that same breed nearly every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed
- croisillon 13y agoYour remark "I recommend the chihuahua is male and great dane is female" is interesting, but how true is it? Has anyone experience? Is it harder for a small female dog to bear puppies from a big male dog?