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From: frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier)
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Subject: Re: What distinguishes a species?
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Date: 6 Feb 90 18:08:49 GMT
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In article <9558@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidcc.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
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>OK Chaps, how about cats? Can a house cat breed with any kind of wild cats?
>Are lions more different from house cats than St. Bernards are from Pekineze
>(can't spell Chihuahua).
>
>Dick Jackson

Different species.  Lions and tigers can mate, but the offspring
are mules (so to speak!).  There is a species of wild cat which
can interbreed with the domestic cat, however.  I have no idea
what taxonomists have done with it.

Greg Frazier
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