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Thread: Hampster x Rat Hybrids?

  1. 03-26-2007, 08:31 PM #1
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    Hampster x Rat Hybrids?

    Can this actualy happen, I mean I geuss it can but I mean HUH!?

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  2. 03-26-2007, 08:40 PM #2
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    I doubt it, and craiglist has removed the posting.
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  3. 03-26-2007, 08:45 PM #3
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    Nope, it's not possible. They were probably gerbils or degus.

    Thank you Wolf_Q!
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  4. 03-26-2007, 08:46 PM #4
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    No, they have different chromosome counts I believe. A mouse is much closer related to a rat, and in laboratories, most rat-mouse hybrid embryos only get to a point where the cells split a few times and then die.
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  5. 03-27-2007, 12:15 AM #5
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    Ahh, the wonders of speciation and evolution. Gotta love nature!
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