What is hybridization of animals?
Hybridisation is the crossing of two species. It is not common and the result is usually sterile. A good example of this is the mule, using a mare and a jack donkey. The mule has the courage, stamina and surefootedness of the donkey with the strength of a horse, and has been a very useful pack animal that played an important part in history. Some hybrids are unintentional, like a lion and a tiger breeding (result being a liger or a tigon, depending on which parent was the lion and which the tiger.) Hybridisation does occur naturally, but it is uncommon because animals prefer to breed with their own species.
