4/24/16            Week 1

Hi everyone, we are going to be doing inquiry projects again. It will be the same as our old inquiry projects but we have to choose a different topic. You guys might remember my old inquiry topic and it was about marine mammals, my topic this time will be about animals again but instead i will be doing… Animal hybrids! Basically an animal hybrid is a mix of to animals, lets say that there is a  male tiger and a female lion mix then it would be a tigon, but if there was a male lion and a female tiger mix then it would be a liger.                       This is the main source and it’s also the source that made me want to do animal hybrides is the first place. http://www.boredpanda.com/strange-hybrid-animals-that-are-hard-to-believe-actually-exist/

Every week I will be talking about one hybrid animal and facts about it. Be sure to check out my blog entry next week to learn about a liger a male lion and female tiger cross.

5/3/16            Week 2

Okay so there is this one liger named Shasta and there is something special about her, she is special because she was the first liger ever born. Shasta was born in the America,  Salt Lake City in Hogle zoo in 1948 and died in 1972 because of a kidney failure. Shasta was the first birth of her mother so the mother didn’t take care of her that well so Shasta was hand fed by humans. When Shasta was a child she loved to climb because of the instincts from her mother. Tigers are said to be better climbers then lions. Ligers normally have the facial features of there mothers  (tiger) but Shasta had the face of her father (lion). Shasta’s mom was a Siberian Tigeriss and her father was a African Lion.

Source:           http://www.ligerworld.com/shasta-the-first-ever-liger-in-America.html

Next week I will be talking about the Tigon, a male tiger and female lion cross.

5/9/16           Week 3

I learned that tigons are more rare then ligers, even though the first tigon was born in 1943, five years before the first liger, Shasta. When born in captivity, Tigers will live for at least thirty years, but when a Tigon is born in captivity it will live for ten years or less. The reason Tigons or any hybrid animal does not live as long is because they could have cancer, arthritis, or dwarfism. It is unnatural for an animal of one species to mate with an animal of a different species.

source:   https://youtu.be/-vs9bQKB5_w

For the inquiry fair, I had the idea of making a model that you can take apart and put back together to customize your own hybrid animal. I’m thinking of using styrofoam, but it might be hard to work with. I thought about using clay but the clay might stick together. I will have to experiment.

Next week I will be talking about the zonkey, a zebra/donkey mix.

5/20/16           Week 4

I think zonkeys are cool animals because they have the colour of a donkey but when you look at there legs you can see the donkey colour kind of fading into to the zebra pattern.  

This is a picture of a zonkey.

Hybrids like Ippo are very rare. They have various traits from both parents, their appearance is more a donkey, but they have striped legs and tummies and a wilder temperament than a donkey. Ippo the zonkey, is a lovely two-for-one hybrid of the zebra and the donkey. Ippo was born  at an animal reserve in Florence, Italy.  Ippo’s dad jumped the fence and wondered into a enclosure housing endangered Amiata donkeys. In the enclosure Ippo’s dad met Ippo’s mom and twelve months later Ippo was born!

Source: http://www.boredpanda.com/zebra-donkey-hybrid-zonkey-ippo/

Hoped you guys liked my blog entry this week, come back next week to learn about a jaglion. A male jaguar mix with a female lion.

5/26/16           Week 5

on Week 3 of my inquiry journal I told you guys that I might use styrofoam and clay but it didn’t work because the clay wouldn’t stick to the styrofoam and then everything turned into a big mess. Instead of using clay and styrofoam I have been thinking about making a 2 or 3 different puzzles so that people can choose which puzzle they would like to make, then they can try and guess which animal hybrid is on the puzzle that the person just built. Anyways, this week I will be talking all about a jaglion. Right now you might be thinking “what the heck’s a jaglion?”, a jaglion is a male jaguar mix with a female lion. I think jaglions are super cool and beautiful animals.

This is a picture of a jaglion, to me this animal looks really cool because from a far it looks like a normal jaguar because of its black coating but if you look up close you can see the spots from the lion. I also love this animal because of its beautiful fur coat.

This is a source that I really like and it’s about two jaglions: Tsunami and Jazhara two jaglions and on the website it talks about there parents and stuff like that so make sure to check out the website.

http://www.bearcreeksanctuary.com/jaglions.htm

Next week I will be talking about a Geep. Goat sheep cross

6/9/16      Week 6     

A geep is probably the cutest animal hybrid I a have ever seen.    

Isn’t this animal adorable.

This geep’s name is Butterfly, Butterfly lives at a petting zoo located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Butterfly was born, July 27th 2014. Butterfly’s mother, was named Momma and her father was named, Michael.

Since goats have 60 chromosomes and sheep have 54 chromosomes, like any other animal hybrid, this can lead to health problems. Very rarely geep’s, like Butterfly, survive and in total have around 57 chromosomes, which is enough chromosomes for geep to survive. Butterfly’s features are a blend of her parents. Her hooves and face are from Michael (father, goat), while her body is covered in a thick, warm woolen coat from Momma (mother, sheep).  

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-butterfly-rare-sheep-goat-hybrid/

Next week is the last inquiry journal about a animal hybrid, and week 8 will be about how i’m going to present my work and all that jazz.
Next week I will be talking about a coywolf, a coyote, wolf mix.