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Article #4366Re: What distinguishes a species?
From: Greg Frazier
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 18:08
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 18:08
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In article <9558@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidcc.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
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>OK Chaps, how about cats? Can a house cat breed with any kind of wild cats?
>Are lions more different from house cats than St. Bernards are from Pekineze
>(can't spell Chihuahua).
>
>Dick Jackson
Different species. Lions and tigers can mate, but the offspring
are mules (so to speak!). There is a species of wild cat which
can interbreed with the domestic cat, however. I have no idea
what taxonomists have done with it.
Greg Frazier
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