© 2020 Getty Images. The zebra is a very alert and aggressive animal. You’ve run out of free articles. These witnesses included not only several respectable citizens of the community, but even the abbot of the local monastery. To solve this problem, they turned to the zebra, a close relative of horses and donkeys that is plentiful in the African plains. Let’s consult our expert, a Texan marriage counselor with a law degree. Horses and donkeys, wolves and dogs, lions and tigers, and polar bears and brown bears are some of the more well know examples of intra-genus hybridization. Asian elephants are not considered domestic animals even though they have been captured and trained for over 3,000 years. And, of course, there are the innumerable mythical monsters mentioned in the folklore of ancient peoples: centaurs, fauns, the minotaur, sphinxes, mermaids, etc. As he later found out, the moose was too dangerous to approach. Bonobos are unique on this list because they are not wild animals. Captured sharks are also unbelievably aggressive and will usually refuse to eat. 0 posts 5 views Subscribe Unsubscribe 0. mating. Nevertheless, there have been independent attempts to domesticate the hippo. But Nikita Khrushchev revived it when he attempted to domesticate moose for meat. Unfortunately for the king, the plan never worked out. Intra-genus hybridization is one of the mechanisms of evolution. The longest this animal has been held in captivity is 16 days. Top 10 Underwater Ruins Of Lost Civilizations, Top 10 Musicians Who Sold Their Soul To The Devil, Top 10 Enduring Trends, Movements, And Subcultures, Top 10 Oldest Known Versions Of Everyday Things, Top 10 Movies That Should Have Stayed In The Elevator, Top 10 Bizarre Cakes You Won’t See On The Great British Bake Off, Top 10 Things Disney Doesn’t Want You To See, 10 People Killed By Animals You Wouldn’t Expect, 10 Stories Of Animals That Fought Back Against Poachers. Rumored animal-human crosses from the past few hundred years have included a man-pig, a monkey-girl, and a porcupine man. Today, we know that two-headed infants, Siamese twins, children with monstrous heads, even such misshapen, malformed bodies which appear to resemble animals, are merely mistakes of nature in purely human births. And this tiny tot who is already feeling at home. Sometimes, however, the faun has a goat’s tail, and is shown as half goat and half man. Oh, and I like Wikipedia. 1.
However, they cannot be used as working animals because they have not been domesticated. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. VIDEOS GALLERIES. One common method is to crossbreed a male coyote with a female dog. LookAnimals.com does not host any of the images embedded here. Wild coyotes become less wary of humans after about three generations, but they are not domestic animals.
Humans have wisely stayed away from the hippopotamus, one of the world’s deadliest animals.