• Question: theoretically, what would you get if you crossed a barreleye fish and a capybara?

    Asked by to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Kevin Arbuckle answered on 18 Mar 2014:


      A fish out of water (or a soggy and smelly mammal). Realistically, fish and mammals are too distantly related for any hybrid to survive (even as an embryo/foetus), even if they were somehow able to mate.

    • Photo: Willem Heijltjes

      Willem Heijltjes answered on 18 Mar 2014:


      🙂 What is the answer you’re looking for? Barrebara? 😉

      I don’t think it’s possible to cross a mammal with a fish – they’re too different! So you’d have to think of something else… Possibly, with future technology, we could put some of the fish genes into the capybara – or the other way around. But then we’re well into the area of fiction, so you’re free to imagine the result in any way you like 😉

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