• Question: can you breed humans with animals and will a combo of them be born ?

    Asked by easy520tuft on 13 Mar 2025.
    • Photo: Emma Bull

      Emma Bull answered on 13 Mar 2025:

      We do see this happening sometime with animals – have you ever heard of a Zorse or a Liger? In theory, yes we might be able to cross breed some animals with humans, but whether the baby would survive through pregnancy and birth I am not sure! We know for sure that humans couldn’t cross-breed with all other animals because our DNA is not compatible with every other animals’ DNA meaning that an egg and sperm cell wouldn’t be able to combine and start a pregnancy.

      There’s also the question of should we… would it be a good thing for the world, and for the individual, if we tried to make a human-animal mixture creature? Scientists have to work out if experiments are what we call ethical (meaning good for the world and the individuals/animals involved) and that is a whole other debate!

    • Photo: Rachael Eggleston

      Rachael Eggleston answered on 20 Mar 2025:

      Technically yes, probably, with certain other great ape species (most likely chimps). Like Emma said, this is called hybridization, and it does happen in other animals, usually ones that are pretty closely related. Plants do this too!

      But (again, like Emma said) it’s very much a matter of ‘should we’? Would that be a *good* thing to do? Interesting, maybe, but would it be good for the world? Would it be good for the human-animal hybrid? Maybe not.

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