Justin Andress
It’s a nearly universally acknowledged truth that love is a force that knows no bounds. It has the power to transcend races, credos, and in some cases, even species. Of course, cards on the table, lust has that same power. Also, some scientists and farmers just have a weird fascination with watching two different species hump and then studying the offspring. Whatever the case, sometimes two beings run across each other and they just have to get down. It happens all the time in nature to often wondrous effect, with odd couplings producing some of the natural world’s most interesting interspecies offspring. Here, for your consideration, are some of nature’s most awe-inspiring, adorable, frightening, amazing, and straight up weird real life animal hybrids.
1. Cama
The product of a male dromedary (one-humped) camel and a female llama, the cama was created in the hopes of rearing an animal with the wool output of the lama but the size, strength, and subdued temperament of a regular camel. With five camas currently born, scientists are getting closer to their goals even though the original camas are said to be kind of tempermental. Of course, if you were that cute, you’d be a little haughty, too.
