Can a cow and a pig mate?

Quite a few reports about cow-pig hybrids exist. Most describe hybrids dead at or soon after birth. A few, however, have allegedly been viable. In reports about cow-pigs hybrids, it seems that cattle, not porcine, mothers are always alleged.
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Can a pig mate with a sheep?

It's well documented that sheep and pigs sometimes will mate (videos >>). Indeed, even the ancient Akkadians knew that pigs and sheep do sometimes engage in such activities (Freedman 2017, p. 6). It's a common barnyard occurrence.
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Can a horse impregnate a cow?

It is well known that horses and donkeys do occasionally mate with cattle (e.g., see videos below). Such mixed matings are fairly common events on ranches and other places where these animals are likely to come into regular contact.
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Can a deer and cow mate?

White-tailed deer and mule deer can mate and create offspring, as do domestic cattle and bison, cattle and yaks, wolves and dogs, wolves and coyotes, and coyotes and dogs.
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Can a horse breed with a dog?

Mammalian Hybrids. If a mare gives birth to a foal with the claws of a dog, the nation will be diminished. When horses and other large farm animals are lying down, dogs sometimes mount them. Caution.
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Can a dog and cow mate?

For even if a canid-bovid cross were possible — and it is unknown whether such crosses might rarely occur — it seems highly unlikely that a wolf (Canis lupus) would be present at the locale in question to perform the requisite mating, let alone to produce such a hybrid (unless it were perhaps a pet, or a wolf in a zoo) ...
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Can humans breed with any other animals?

Probably not. Ethical considerations preclude definitive research on the subject, but it's safe to say that human DNA has become so different from that of other animals that interbreeding would likely be impossible.
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Can human and goat breed?

First things first: It is biologically impossible for humans to cross-breed with goats or sheep, Dr Carina Visser, senior lecturer in the department of animal and wildlife sciences at the University of Pretoria, told Africa Check. “In genetic terms, each species has a unique number of chromosomes,” she explained.
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Can a deer and a horse mate?

From the standpoint of taxonomic classification, deer-horse hybrids are similar to cow-horse hybrids, a cross that has been reported far more often than deer-horse, probably because both cattle and horses are common domestic animals.
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Can dogs and pigs mate?

Mating. It is certainly true that pigs and dogs are sometimes willing to mate. In connection with this fact, several pieces of information involving dogs and pigs seem worth relating.
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Can a buffalo and cow mate?

Yes, just like the horses and donkeys a cow and a member of the Bovidae family can mate. However, “the member of the Bovidae family” is not a true buffalo. However, it appears quite the same as buffalo.
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Can a dog mate with a sheep?

Various YouTube videos document dogs mating with sheep. Indeed, even the Akkadians of ancient Mesopotamia, who lived in the third millennium B.C., knew that dogs and sheep sometimes engage in such activities (Freedman 2017, p. 6). And reports of the actual occurrence of this seemingly distant cross do exist.
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Can you breed a camel and a horse?

The old Latin name for a camel-horse hybrid is a hippocamelus. Hippocamelus is also a genus of deer comprising the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) and the taruca (H. antisensi).
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Are all bulls males?

A bull, also known as a sire, is a mature male bovine that is at least 2 years old used for breeding purposes. Bulls are usually not used for meat. Bulls are not castrated because they have desired traits that producers want to use for breeding.
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Can donkeys reproduce?

Donkeys do reproduce. They just need more time than you'd think. They have low reproduction rates, but they can have babies. It's mules, a mixture of horse and donkey, that can't reproduce.
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Can a human have a baby with a dolphin?

To make it possible for a human mother to deliver a dolphin from her womb, there is a need to synthesise "The Dolp-human Placenta". The usual human placenta interacts to pass from mother to baby oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, hormones, antibodies (Immunoglobulin Gamma, IgG) and so on.
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Can a man get pregnant?

People who are born male and living as men cannot get pregnant. A transgender man or nonbinary person may be able to, however. It is only possible for a person to be pregnant if they have a uterus. The uterus is the womb, which is where the fetus develops.
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Can monkey sperm fertilize human egg?

There are documented cases of Soviet experiments in the 1920s where artificial insemination was attempted using female chimps and human sperm. However, none of these experiments resulted in a pregnancy, much less the birth of a 'humanzee'.
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Can human sperm fertilize a goat?

No, your sperm isn't compatible with the eggs of a goat or another animal. It's like attempting to put two different puzzle pieces together - they won't fit! Female eggs have receptors, and your sperm will not fertilize the eggs of another animal.
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Can a dog mate with a monkey?

Mammalian Hybrids

Monkeys have been observed mating with a wide variety of other types of animals, including dogs, a fact well attested by videos on YouTube and by information presented in the pages on primate hybridization on this website.
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What happens when human sperm meets a dog egg?

A human egg would not be fertilised by dog sperm if we tried. It would float up to the human egg, and then fail to attach to the Zona Pellucida, making it impossible to fertilise it.
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Can a dog get a cat pregnant?

But creating hybrids of animals that are very genetically distinct from each other – such as a dog and a cat – are impossible, as is one species giving birth to an entirely different one. It does not stop people from hoping.
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Can a wolf impregnate a dog?

Wolves and dogs are interfertile, meaning they can breed and produce viable offspring. In other words, wolves can interbreed with dogs, and their offspring are capable of producing offspring themselves.
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Can a dog get pregnant by a rabbit?

Dog-rabbit hybrids are very rarely reported. Indeed, there seems to be but a single, brief notice on record, and even that single alleged hybrid died soon after birth. Such a cross would, of course, be extremely distant and no picture was provided. So this cross is poorly documented indeed.
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