Mixed Breed Sharks??

[robbcayman]

Do sharks ever mate with sharks from different species than themselves?? For example could a tiger shark and a bull shark mate?? What would it look like??? Does it happen?? How do sharks tell their species from apart from one another??

 

[Cacia]

I don't think so....altho we have some sort of half whale dolphin thing at Sea-life park.

 

[yakivet]

Do sharks ever mate with sharks from different species than themselves?? For example could a tiger shark and a bull shark mate?? What would it look like??? Does it happen?? How do sharks tell their species from apart from one another??

The branches of the genetic tree are far enough apart that inter-species breeding is unlikely. Having Breeds of dogs that intermingle, are a completly different scenario than having species of sharks that interbreed. It just dosn't happen in nature, or there would be no "purebred" species to continue the reproductive process. You can breed a Horse with a Donkey and get a mule, but the resultant cross is sterile. :42:

 

[archman]

What? You don't know about hinnies, the freakishly weird "fertile" mules?


Hybrids, fertile or otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid

 

[MoonWrasse]

Do sharks ever mate with sharks from different species than themselves?? For example could a tiger shark and a bull shark mate?? What would it look like??? Does it happen?? How do sharks tell their species from apart from one another??

I suppose that'd be called a "bugger shark"

Crosses of tigers and lions do exist - they're called "ligers" and "tigons".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon

 

[archman]

Of course Lygers exist... Napoleon Dynamite doesn't make that stuff up!

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

a blue shark and a whale shark mated and made a blue whale.............

 

[archman]

a blue shark and a whale shark mated and made a blue whale.............

That's almost as ridiculous as crossing a false killer whale and a bottlenose dolphin.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7508288/

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

thats pretty wild. what is a false killer whale as opposed to a regular orca?

 

[cowjazz]

I've known criminal defense and civil lawyers to crossbreed. The offspring seems normal. Does that count?