[diamondgeezer]

Erm, I don't know how much you lot know about biology, but... this is impossible, right?

[IceFire]

Nothing is impossible...just highly improbable.

If this is true...and even if its not, we should understand that nature can do incredible things under the right conditions.

[Joey_21]

When will that happen again? Oh, say another 1000 years.

[Ulundel]

Bastards!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Erm, I don't know how much you lot know about biology, but... this is impossible, right?

Given the basics of genetics, "impossible" is incorrect. "Astronomically impropable" is closer to the truth. The former rules out possibility, while the latter allows for the slimmest margin.

Whereas almost all mules are sterile, it is  not impossible that one might hit the biological jackpot and manage to have the exact combination of factors required for it to get pregnant and throw a foal.

This mule was most likely a mutation of some sort. I'm willing to bet that a closer examination of the mother's ova will reveal that some of them are properly divided, carrying 31 chromosome nuclei, like donkey ova.

[CP5670]

Now all we need as something like this to happen with humans.

If this is true...and even if its not, we should understand that nature can do incredible things under the right conditions.

Still, the number of things it can do is nothing compared to the number of things it cannot do.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by CP5670
Now all we need as something like this to happen with humans.

What, have a half-human, half-donkey hybrid?  That's not right.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Shrike
What, have a half-human, half-donkey hybrid?  That's not right.

We already have those, several of them right here on HLP. I can furnish you with a list of these mulish sorts.

[diamondgeezer]

Shrike, could you please stop it with the spoon-cat.

Please?

[Razor]

Originally posted by Shrike
What, have a half-human, half-donkey hybrid?  That's not right.

Looks like a cat-monkey hairy lizard.

[Shrike]

Actually it's a goat-cat (gat) photoshop.  Very well done I might add.

[wEvil]

that HAS to be photoshoppage

[Stryke 9]

NO! NOT THE DEVIL-CAT AGAIN!!!

Actually, no. Mules are among a few hybrids that aren't always sterile. I don't think they even are 99% of the time- it's just because they're common hybrids that they must've gotten their reputation.

It's a common misconception that hybrids are always sterile. The common species theory simply requires them to be probably sterile- most of the time, a hybrid is invariably sterile, but there are examples, particularly among plants, where interspeciation can create viable new species.

I think it has something to do with certain genes being very similar... or is it that the chromosomes have to be the exact same length in both species? I forget. Something like that. Anyway, it's not particularly suprising.

[wEvil]

Originally posted by Stryke 9

I think it has something to do with certain genes being very similar... or is it that the chromosomes have to be the exact same length in both species? I forget. Something like that. Anyway, it's not particularly suprising.

In that case a human could apparently breed with a Privet Hedge?

[aldo_14]

"you will bring me.... a shrubbery!"

[diamondgeezer]

"A shrubbery?"

[wEvil]

Half man, half shrubbery!

[Sandwich]

So what would the, uhm... act of breeding be called, "shrubbing"???

[Stryke 9]

No doubt people have tried. I think the chromosome length thing was it, but that's pretty damn uncommon, and at any point there's the problem of making it physically possible...


If anyone tries to bring hentai into this I kill you.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
No doubt people have tried. I think the chromosome length thing was it, but that's pretty damn uncommon, and at any point there's the problem of making it physically possible...


If anyone tries to bring hentai into this I kill you.

I really would not like to imagine large tentacles and young gir.... errr... oops