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Can snow leopards produce hybrid offspring with any other feline species?
I've already reviewed the Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felid_hybrid , which discuss ligers, leopons, blynxes, servicals, and numerous other hybrids. None of the hybrids mentioned has a snow leopard parent, but I could not find anything that says it can't happen.
I looked up Bengal Cat, and as far as I was able to determine, the Bengal Cat, of which some varieties are called "snow leopard" or are described as "snow spotted", are actually a hybrid of the leopard cat (Felis bengalensis or Prionailurus bengalensis) and the domestic cat (Felis catus), and are not related to the snow leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia).
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- Cal KingLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Judging from molecular data, the closest relative of the snow leopard is the tiger. There is even a proposal to include the snow leopard within the same genus (Panthera) as the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. Therefore it is certainly possible, even probable to produce a hybrid between a snow leopard and a tiger. The other species of cats that can potentially produce a hybrid with the snow leopard include the leopard and the clouded leopard (the closest living relative of the genus Panthera). The possibility of hybrids with lions also exist. It is less likely with the jaguar but nevertheless possible.
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Can snow leopards produce hybrid offspring with any other feline species?
I've already reviewed the Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hybrid and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felid_hybrid , which discuss ligers, leopons, blynxes, servicals, and numerous other hybrids. None of the hybrids mentioned has a snow leopard parent, but I could not find...
Source(s): snow leopards produce hybrid offspring feline species: https://tr.im/YtmPM - angeloneusLv 78 years ago
Hopefully, we will never know the answer to this question, because breeding snow leopards to anything else would be a travesty. All our efforts should be to preserve the snow leopard by breeding them together, not diluting their gene pool.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
No nothing like this has happened yet. (That we know of.) It might happen though.
