Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(09-09-2018, 04:41 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(09-09-2018, 04:35 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Maybe the Pleistocene lion and Afro-Asiatic lion had already developed this unique strain of DNA that prevent them to produce the genetically flawless offspring, but still more viable than the cross hybrid like the liger.

That is an importnat point, in fact, the genetic study of Barnett et al. (2009) found that there was NO crosbreed between any of the three genetic populations of lions, even deeper, there was no genetic interchange between the Alsaka lions (P. spelaea) and the USA lions (P. atrox) despite they proximity, which suggest that even when the ice sheet was thin enough to allow all the other animals to cross between the populations, these two "lion" population did not intermix. We must not forget those results as are very important for a deep genetic analysis.

So the wild animals could only cross with the members within the boundary of its species, and anything outside should be out of question even it is a sister species.

However, the Homo sapiens used to interbreed with the Homo neanderthalensis, even though this is a cross breed between two closely related species, and it is odd that Panthera spelaea and Panthera atrox didn't follow this pattern. Reply