The title of this post is the names of some lesser known intra-specific hybrid animals (check the link for more), namely a cross between a Zebra and donkey (aka zonkey), a cattle/bison cross, and a rare cross of a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin. Of course, the most common and well known hybrid is the mule, a cross between a horse and a donkey. Most intra-specific hybrid animals are sterile as a result that they can not produce viable gametes through meiosis because of a lack of homologous chromosomes.
Since a hybrid has one set from one animal and one set from another they don't pair up properly during metaphase, they most often also have a different number of chromosomes to begin with. Some animal hybrids are fertile however such as the female tigon.From Napoleon Dynamite:

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- Deb: What are you drawing?
- Napoleon: A liger.
- Deb: What's a liger?
- Napoleon: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed. Bred for its skills in magic.
- Napoleon dynamite was a bit of a dweeb (magic is an innate or learned ability and not a skill) but a liger is pretty awesome. Check out this video that will make you respect the liger.

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