TheLastGreen
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This question has been bugging me for a while. We were tought that different species can't crossbreed, no matter what, due to speciation. Speciation mechanisms like unfertile hybrid crossings, different prebreeding needs like different mating calls or breeding at certain times of year etc. cause this. In the end if two organisms can produce fertile offspring, they are considered a species. So why can different tort species breed and produce offspring? A speciation method is the inability to copulate, but in some cases different torts can, which leads to hybrids. So could this be the answer?
A while back there was a taken down post of a leopard×sulcata hybrid, which produced offspring. It could be complicated that the other tort was a pure species (a sulcata or leopard) and that this could happen, but still it is confusing, which adds to my question on how this could happen?
A while back there was a taken down post of a leopard×sulcata hybrid, which produced offspring. It could be complicated that the other tort was a pure species (a sulcata or leopard) and that this could happen, but still it is confusing, which adds to my question on how this could happen?
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