10 Animal Hybrids You Won't Believe Exist

Sometimes nature just doesn't seem to follow its own plan. Each living organism on this planet has been carefully crafted and perfected over the course of billions of years. But what happens when these organisms, or in the case of this video, these animals decide to defy nature and blend their genes with different kinds of animals to create something that nature didn't exactly plan for? Today we'll be taking a look at the top 10 craziest hybrid animals you won't believe actually exist. Be sure to stick around until the end because number one is surely going to blow your mind.

Number 10, the Liger. The liger, as its name implies, is the combination you get when a male lion and female tiger decide to mate. Surprisingly, ligers are usually larger and heavier than either parent of the species. They often grow to lengths of more than 10 feet, and can weigh up to a whopping 2,000 pounds or 907 kilograms, making them the largest of all known extant felines. Ligers are also capable of reaching speeds of 5060 miles per hour while running, making them the secondfastest felines in the world, second only to the Cheetah. If you think you'll ever come across these magnificent cats while exploring the wild, think again. Ligers only occur in captivity due to tigers mainly being found in Asia, and Lions mainly being found in Africa. The two ever meeting facetoface naturally just isn't realistic.

Number 9, the Cama. The cama is a hybrid animal created by crossbreeding a one hump camel from Asia with a South American Llama. Despite their clear differences in overall shape and size, the camel and llama are actually distant relatives and come from the same ancestor. Camas can reach about 5 feet in height at their shoulders weigh anywhere from 180 to 1,000 pounds, or 82 to 454 kilograms. They are covered in a very soft fur that is slightly shorter than the fleece of a llama. Camas make sounds nearly identical to camels and usually live about 3040 years. Like the liger, camas don't occur in the wild either, the two animals used to create them are found on completely different continents separated by oceans.

Number 8, the Belgian Super Cow. The Belgian Super Cow is known as somewhat of a mutant breed of cattle that dates all the way back to the 1800s. Belgian scientists and farmers decided they wanted to breed native cattle with shorthorn cattle. Over time, the breeders would select the biggest and strongest animals of each variety and breed them together, creating cattle that have a muscle yield of around 20% more on average than regular cattle. The reason why these cows are able to put on so much muscle is because through breeding they lost a certain protein that is responsible for regulating muscle growth. Sadly, Belgian Super Cows tend to fall victim to many health complications and their calves are often born with severe birth defects.

Number 7, Bees. These creatures were accidentally created by scientists who were trying to increase honey production. A European species of honeybees were brought over and introduced to South America, but because of the change in temperature, the bees wouldn't produce any honey. So in an effort to rectify the problem, scientists then mixed the European honey bee with African bees. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, until the scientists noticed that the resulting bees developed some extreme colony defense instincts. Unlike other bee species, when a Bee hive is disturbed, the whole entire colony attacks whatever or whoever is unlucky to be close enough, regardless of whether or not it was what was actually disturbing the hive. At least 400 people every year across the world lose their lives as a result of bee attacks, and that number keeps rising as the years go by.