10種神奇的混血動物(下)

6．Cama = Camel + Llama

6．混血駱駝=駱駝+羊駝

This hybrid animAl, the product of breeding a llama and a camel, has been the only creature of this kind since her birth in 1995. Camas are humpless and have the long fluffy coat of a llama. Their ears are half way in length between camels and llamas, but they have the strong, desert-ready legs of a camel.

這種動物是羊駝和駱駝的混血兒，誕生於1995年，是這一支唯一的生物。它們沒有駝峯，像羊駝一樣有蓬鬆長毛，耳朵長度在駱駝和駱駝之間，但它們的腿像駱駝一樣強大，專門對付沙漠。

7．Grizzly Polar = Polar Bear + Brown Bear

7．灰北極熊=北極熊+棕熊

Also known as Grolar Bear, this bear hybrid is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking bear that had been shot on Banks Island in the Canadian arctic.

這種雜交熊也叫灰白熊，是一種罕見的熊科混血兒，在圈養和野外都有存在。2006年，對一隻在加拿大北極地區班克斯島發現的看起來很奇怪的熊的DNA分析，證實了這種雜交熊在自然環境中的存在。

A number of polar bear hybrids are described as Ursid hybrids, a term that designates any hybrid of two species within the Ursidae family. Polar bear hybrids with Grizzly bears have been reported and shot, but DNA techniques were not available to verify the bears' ancestry.

許多極性熊雜交體被描述爲熊科混血，這個術語說的是熊科任意兩種物種的混血兒。 對北極熊與灰熊的混血已有報告和拍攝，但過去DNA技術不能確認它的血統。

8．Toast of Botswana = Sheep + Goat

8．博茨瓦納吐司=綿羊+山羊

An unusual case of a sheep-goat hybrid was reported by veterinarians in Botswana in 2000, called the "Toast of Botswana". The animal was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep that were kept together.

2000年，博茨瓦納的獸醫發現了一隻不尋常的綿羊山羊混血兒，並把它稱爲“博茨瓦納土司”，是雌山羊與養在一起的雄綿羊自然交配的產物。

The hybrid was intermediate between the two parent species in type. It had a coarse outer coat, a woolly inner coat, long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body. Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and does when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance.

這隻混血兒介於兩種親本物種之間，有粗硬的外層披毛、柔軟的內毛、長長的山羊腿和沉重的綿羊身。 它雖然不育，卻有強烈的性慾，只要天氣不熱，兩種母羊通吃。這使它獲得了強姦犯的名聲。它10個月大變得很討厭，就被閹割了。

9．Blood parrot = Midas Cichild + Red Devil fish

9．血鸚鵡=壽星頭+厚脣雙冠麗魚

The Blood parrot (also known as bloody parrot and blood parrotfish) is a hybrid cichlid. The fish was first created in Taiwan in around 1986. Its parentage is unknown, but the most commonly speculated pairings are midas cichlid with the redhead cichlid. This hybrid cichlid has various anatomical deformities, one of the most obvious, and also deadly, deformities is its mouth, which only has very narrow vertical opening. This makes blood parrot very hard to feed. Many die eventually because of this. Cichlid enthusiasts have called for their removal from the market and organized boycotts against pet stores that sell them.

血鸚鵡（也叫紅財神、財神魚、鸚鵡魚）是慈鯛科的混血兒。這種魚最初誕生於1986年的臺灣。它的血統未知，最常見的推測是壽星頭配紫藍火口。這種混血慈鯛具有各種解剖畸形，其中最明顯和致命的是它的嘴，只能垂直張開一點點。這使得血鸚鵡很難餵養，很多最終都因此死去。慈鯛保護主義者已呼籲禁止交易血鸚鵡，並組織抵制出售血鸚鵡的寵物商店。

10．Hybrid Pheasant = Golden + Amherst Pheasant

10．混血雉雞=紅腹錦雞+白腹錦雉

The Golden Pheasant has commonly been crossed with the similar Lady Amherst's Pheasant. The result is a hybrid with distinguished colors from its parents.

紅腹錦雞常與白腹錦雞雜交，混血兒的毛色與父母截然不同。