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Assuming it worked the only thing I can imagine it doing is to understand the species differences. Which could them be isolated and put in a independent modgule because this arrangement I can say would likely lead to infertile animals or inviable offspring because suddenly we now have copy number changes or outright genomic instability if not immediately then in a generation
I really want to see the jaguar-housecat hybrid. I bet they would be super cute (and more likely to actually be okay as adults, unlike some of the other hybrids)
probably not too different from other wild cats mixed with house cats- like savannah cats, bengals, Chausies, etc. My favorite fact about house cats is that they're scientifically the same as wild cats! Cats aren't truly domestic since they domesticated themselves. Meaning cats can easily live in the wild- of course, to cats that're used to being pets, the outside is dangerous to them. But feral cats are truly wild!
The fact that mammals have a built in way of making sure that sperm is from the right animal poses some interesting ideas of what happened out in nature
Dolphin : smart predator with nasty sexual behavior Also Dolphin : produce sperm that can fertilize other specie's eggs. Somewhere, a mad evil scientist is laughing like crazy inside his submarine volcano secret base.
Sharks in fiction: terrifying, evil Dolphins in fiction: happy friend Sharks in reality: fishy go splish splash Dolphins in reality: people, but ocean (might be happy friend, might be pure evil, probably Just Some Guy, depends on the individual)
And yeah, I can understand not wanting to risk hybrids of a dolphin and a distantly related terrestrial species, but why not any of those matchups of two closely related species? They'd probably survive long-term and be cute.
@@solidagold115 He shoulda have mentioned on the video that probably none of those hybrids would become an animal, it probably just multiply some cells and maybe dont even pass a very small blob.
"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (1990)
Well, dolphins have been known to r@pe humans from time to time… women and men… so yeah, I would be concerned about accidental pregnancy from such unfortunate events. Dolphins are animals and will k!ll baby dolphins and r@pe and sometimes k!ll the mother as well. They have no sense of ethics or morals etc. and during mating season all bets are off.
I mean it makes sense if you think about how it is fluids transferring in fluids and the pressures of environment on evolution, but yeaaahhh... it definitely makes dolphins a little creepier than they already were to me.
Has no one tried to mix a panda with another species of bear to see if they would get a hybrid that could breed more easily?... Or even just have a less wasteful diet...
@@ThePortuguesePlayer They wouldn't want a hybrid to replace the original. Apparently, introduced species/subspecies that hybridise with native ones are considered invasive/pests. Many would probably be considered invasive/pests anyway, but the hybridisation adds to their pest status. The mallard is known to hybrid with other Anas ducks, and this is part of the reason feral mallards are considered pests. And the giant panda is the most basal extant bear. Hence its closest living relative is all the other bears equally. The polar, brown, black, sun and sloth bears form the subfamily Ursinae and can hybridise with each other. But I don't think they have been known to hybridise with the panda or spectacled bear and I don't think the panda and spectacled bear have been known to hybridise with each other. But being the most basal extant member of a family doesn't mean not being able to hybridise with any others, as the cockatiel-galah hybrid shows.
This reminded me of Full Metal Alchemist, where this scientist, in order to keep his government sponsorship, made human-animal hybrids, first with his wife, then with his daughter.
It might be a morbid kind of curiosity, but I'd kinda really like to know what the resulting organisms end up looking like, at least at birth. ('cause I somehow doubt an organism meant to live in the ocean and an organism meant to live entirely on land would hybridize into something that actually could survive for any reasonable time) And I understand that that's a big part of why they stop these combinations at the embryo stage. But still... what would even happen??? If Dolphin Mice work, do Blue Whale Mice work too?
the embryo probably wouldn't even develop properly. less... moral "scientists" tried to mix humans with chimps basically the same way in the past to create hybrid humans and they got literally nothing out of it, and we are much more similar to chimps than cows are to dolphins. the thing is, some matching genes from both chromosomes are necessary for proper development of the embryo, if those genes don't match, the embryo won't even form.
we will end up with a manatee but for real now, I dont think it will even get to live, but maybe a dolphin-hippo hybrid, just because they are more closely related? but even then I think it will be too big of a stretch
It would be an amphibian haha 🐄💕🐬 Anyway, I don't know if the land/sea thing would be _too_ much of a problem. I mean, dolphins are mammals, and can survive indefinitely out of water (as long as it's skin is kept wet). It's not healthy for the dolphin, and it will eventually die like that, but as long as our Cowphin's needs are met there, either way, it might be okay 🤞🏽
When they say the embryo is viable, that just means it will continue to divide. Almost certainly it will not develop into organs and an organism. Most likely outcome is to become a tumor.
No, as this is not even remotely close to the target of the research. And given researches usually don't have a lot of money to spare, they won't put it into figuring out at which part a random hybrid embroy dies because of incompatible genetic combinations.
They would definitely not survive, they would develop to a point though and that could give insight as to how dolphins lost their legs. Dolphins are actually ungulates like cows so they presumably still have the genes for hooves even if they dont have hooves anymore. Its actually funny because giraffes are more related to dolphins than to camels which is just hilarious to me.
I think this is something that a decent amount of people want to see but also don't want to risk unneeded suffering of a brand new life. It depends on how closely related the animal is too.
I'm... Kinda curious what the end result of that hybridization would look like, honestly. It probably wouldn't be viable at all, but you'd probably learn a lot in the process.
Is there any news on how this affects the hox genes? It sounds like this could potentially leave the hybrids with two different sets of "arm" instructions or potentially with deactivated genes.
Hox genes affect placement of body parts not what they are like head section, body section, tail section - which are pretty common even in fruitflies. Also they are pretty static so if I had dolphins "first section" hox gene it would't likely affect my baldness that much.
"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (1990)
I mean... yeah, by protecting the planet we are actually protecting the status quo that make the planet so comfortable for us. life doesn't care, life went through worse, and the planet is just a rock floating in space.
Because "lets save the predictably stable climate we need to live, build our homes, get water and grow our food, by saving key organisms and geological features required to sustain it" just isn't catchy.
its no different than playing around with cells in a petri dish, there is nothing morally wrong here. humans care way too much about a bunch of cells when scientists are trying to make scientific progress with them, but not when they release a few million of them in a sock. the embryo won't even develop, the cells die before developing because the chromosomes are too different.
@@IronwingTechHaven Because some people want to make human-monkey, human-pig, human-horse hybrids and the ethical ones don’t know where to draw the line
could it be that since species very different didn't need the requirement to block since they would never cross paths (so there is no protective layers pre-existing)? Like of like how the immune system is garbage when it comes to a virus it has never seen before
It's probably that and a combination of other factors. The reason cows worked so well is bc dolphins are in the ungulate family. Likewise with sheep and deer, tho different family
This hybrid somewhat reminds me of the taurokampoi in Etruscan myth, which had the upper half of a cow, and the lower half of a fish. The Greeks had something similar, which was called an ophiotaurus. Instead of being half fish though, it was half serpent.
"Back before the profound silence took everything away. The seaborn and the seaterrors come for us constantly. My dairy business has been destroyed. They take my cows and oceanize them."
I once played a game where a magic castle had a curse that would would slowly transform everything that entered it, into a more docile cow hybrid. There were cow mermaid dolphins in there man.
I can’t believe those embryos aren’t out there somewhere still with someone who worked on the project. Curiosity would get the best of me and I would raise them as long as they could survive just to see how they would develop into adulthood.
Perhaps, but producing even more mature embryos makes for a world of ethical questions, to say nothing of what is one to do with something not suited to land nor sea.
1:24 you shove a cup up there... and scrape it around the ... wall, then pull it out gravity holding it in... people stand upright so they can use a less invasive minstrel cup to collect the same thing "eggs"
Well now I am really curious about what a dolphin cow hybrid would look like. I wish there was a way to do it ethically. Like as soon as there is a bad mutation it would terminated because I doubt it would make it full term. But then we have the moral dilemma of what a “bad” mutation is and we would have to be able have it lab grown instead of implanted in a mother so it could be monitored closely, but that isn’t possible yet. I wish though
"Diprotodonts" My latin-to-sarcasm translator comes up with: _"2nd Attempt at Something That Shouldn't Exist"_ 😊 I've also never heard of Hyraxes, and must do the had hands routine on the ol Gargler to find out what it is... 🤔 _EDIT: ah yes, a "fanged prarie dog" as it were (from South Africa... but which apparently is the closest relative to the elephant... go figure!_ 🤨
This is more relevant than you likely realize. Science currently has I think three definitions of species: A.) if they are genetically sperm-egg compatible and can produce healthy and viable offspring B.) if they are able and willing to copulate and can then produce healthy and viable offspring without tech support C.) for cases in which A or B cannot be verified (which is the majority), then there is a complicated system of morphological classification including studying their genitalia It is a well-known fact in phylogenetic science circles that any time we are able to study the C classifications and give them a B or A classification, the new classification has a high odds of being a mismatch with the old.
A friend's father told me of when he was in the army they came across a large female dog who was in heat and trying to mate with a small male dog a quarter of her size. The army lads decided to help out and built a ramp for the little male to get up.
There used to be other human species around. Many modern humans have genes from those species due to hybridization. Apparently there is window during evolution where two divergent lines can still reproduce and have fertile offspring.
Love the idea of a sasquatch possibly existing, why wonder anymore? Let's just hybrid a human and a gorilla together in a lab, then let it go in the wilds of Canada.
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Is this how we got Manatees?
I want to see what a mouse/dolphin X looks like.
@@wokeness420 No, this is how we got🧜♀
Question is, when will they develop a pair fully so it is seen what happens in development?
Assuming it worked the only thing I can imagine it doing is to understand the species differences. Which could them be isolated and put in a independent modgule because this arrangement I can say would likely lead to infertile animals or inviable offspring because suddenly we now have copy number changes or outright genomic instability if not immediately then in a generation
And thus, the Sea Cow became more literal than we'd ever thought possible.
That's actually what we call a manatee in Dutch
@Micah Philson Apparently!
this comment made my day.
@@Notmyrealname08120 That's what we call a hippopotamus in Afrikaans
Nah, we got it backwards.
Cows are land manatees.
What I learned is that the only thing more troubling than having to imagine a dolphin doing a cow is imagining a dolphin doing a mouse.
@Conon the Binarian 😂
But gravity isn't
It’s like Wailord on Skitty action
now imagine a mouse giving birth to a dolphin mouse hybrid 😊
i dont wanna know the gestation process…
this somehow explains pokemon XD
The real horror stories were the dolphin-cow hybrids we made along the way :)
2:29 and dolphin-mice hybrids
If they ask you to end their suffering, do the right thing.
"Good evening madam, and gentlemen. I am the main dish of the day. May I interest you in parts of my body?" - Ameglian Major cow
I full expect some cheesy b-movies about these hybrids in the near future.
@@craigh5236 would you settle for a cheesy burger of these hybrids in the near future? 😏
I really want to see the jaguar-housecat hybrid. I bet they would be super cute (and more likely to actually be okay as adults, unlike some of the other hybrids)
And I want to see you fused with a monkey
probably not too different from other wild cats mixed with house cats- like savannah cats, bengals, Chausies, etc.
My favorite fact about house cats is that they're scientifically the same as wild cats! Cats aren't truly domestic since they domesticated themselves. Meaning cats can easily live in the wild- of course, to cats that're used to being pets, the outside is dangerous to them. But feral cats are truly wild!
2:34 i am terrified of the selective pressures that caused that to evolve
Seals and penguins, elephants and rhinos, dolphins and... well, anything really
The fact that mammals have a built in way of making sure that sperm is from the right animal poses some interesting ideas of what happened out in nature
I was just coming to comment on the same thing 🤣
Maybe its to stop ova from fusing with random unicellular things like bacteria or amoeba.
I mean any genes wouldn't actually create viable offspring so that habit could not be selected for in nature
@Lake Lure no but it will waste ova, which females produce a limited number of over a lifetime.
Well, I guess dolphins mating with cows wasn't a big evolutionary problem
Dolphin : smart predator with nasty sexual behavior
Also Dolphin : produce sperm that can fertilize other specie's eggs.
Somewhere, a mad evil scientist is laughing like crazy inside his submarine volcano secret base.
I said I wanted sharks with friggin laser beams NOT dolphins with friggin heifer genes!
Gold!
Reminds me that there's a fictional evil genius dolphin character
Sharks in fiction: terrifying, evil
Dolphins in fiction: happy friend
Sharks in reality: fishy go splish splash
Dolphins in reality: people, but ocean (might be happy friend, might be pure evil, probably Just Some Guy, depends on the individual)
The tri-county area will tremble in fear of the Dolphinator!
Now I really want to see a deer-sheep hybrid...
the sheer
The Deerp
Baaaaaambi
Hybrid name would depend on parents' sexes. First part sperm donor, last part egg donor.
And yeah, I can understand not wanting to risk hybrids of a dolphin and a distantly related terrestrial species, but why not any of those matchups of two closely related species? They'd probably survive long-term and be cute.
The fact that you didn't call them Moormaids should weight over your hearts.
Moomaids trips off the tongue better!
Moomaids
It’s obviously pretty bizarre, but I desperately want to see what the viable dolphin-cows would have looked like if they survived gestation!
Look up a Dugong
For real.. I know it is wrong, but I am so so curious to see!
@@solidagold115 He shoulda have mentioned on the video that probably none of those hybrids would become an animal, it probably just multiply some cells and maybe dont even pass a very small blob.
Imagine cute mouse-dolfines in aquarium
@@yt.personal.identification not possible anymore at Yangtse river
I am terrified of what would happen if the fertilized eggs were allowed to grow
Dugongs
Djewgong*
More then likly it would just die there woube a lot more work via trile and aire to get it right
@@mattmonster8402 impressive writing skills
Covid type crazy maybe? It's all just the building blocks of life we hardly understand.
Mouse-size dolphins could be awesome pets, in theory
Just as puppy-sized elephants!
But hey, that's just a theory A SCIENCE THEEEEEORY aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Cut!
@@harry.tallbelt6707 they would become in vogue when they manage to recreate the dwarf elephant from Crete. They were about pony sized.
In practice, however, they would just be miniature menaces of the sea. Now house trained.
Just not dolphin-sized mice! 😱
The Shape of Water 2 basically writes itself.
oh this deserves more likes than that. lmfao
The Shape of Milk: Cows With A Porpoise
"This does not mean that Dolphin/Cow hybrids are set to take over the high seas..." 😂 Love that line Hank!
The dolphin-cow looked up in dreaded horror and pain and said only one thing “Ed.. ward”
LOL Nice Fullmetal Alchemist ref!
They were so busy trying to work out if they could, they nev...no they actually should. Carry on.
This has become so weird it’s interesting. Let’s see how far we can go.
It's a bold play Cotton, let's see how it works out.
Yum! Colophin the new light meat
"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (1990)
Manatees anyone?
I know we're attempting to farm in the seas, but I didn't think that we would be attempting to make an animal for cattle farming to.
Sea beef.
Why not?
@@TheTuttle99 because I'd rather find a way to breed bluefin tuna.
Maybe they just want something more docile for ED-medication testing.
@@nishbrown Seef.
I am now even more worried by dolphins.
same 😬
They do have several of there own TV channels.
According to fairly odd parents, anyway.
Well, dolphins have been known to r@pe humans from time to time… women and men… so yeah, I would be concerned about accidental pregnancy from such unfortunate events. Dolphins are animals and will k!ll baby dolphins and r@pe and sometimes k!ll the mother as well. They have no sense of ethics or morals etc. and during mating season all bets are off.
Dolphins are randy buggers and likely would inseminate cows "naturally" if they could figure out how...
I mean it makes sense if you think about how it is fluids transferring in fluids and the pressures of environment on evolution, but yeaaahhh... it definitely makes dolphins a little creepier than they already were to me.
Damn I appreciate Hank teaching me things for like 8 years now. Hank is the real MVP
When I saw this, I immediately thought, "we? who's we?" And then felt embarrassed for humanity for a moment
Title: "Why are new making Dolphin-Cow hybrids?"
Me: "So we can make that Jumping Dolphin and Cow meme template irl"
HELLO 👋 I JUST FARTED 🤣🤣🤣
..and no mention of Pandas. Guess we've all just decided it's a miracle a species that can only breed one day a year survived this long...
It should have died before the theory of darwinisim was invented.
Has no one tried to mix a panda with another species of bear to see if they would get a hybrid that could breed more easily?... Or even just have a less wasteful diet...
@@ThePortuguesePlayer Grizzanda bears?
I hope so ...
@@Nazuiko cocaine panda???? I'd watch it.
@@ThePortuguesePlayer They wouldn't want a hybrid to replace the original. Apparently, introduced species/subspecies that hybridise with native ones are considered invasive/pests. Many would probably be considered invasive/pests anyway, but the hybridisation adds to their pest status.
The mallard is known to hybrid with other Anas ducks, and this is part of the reason feral mallards are considered pests.
And the giant panda is the most basal extant bear. Hence its closest living relative is all the other bears equally. The polar, brown, black, sun and sloth bears form the subfamily Ursinae and can hybridise with each other. But I don't think they have been known to hybridise with the panda or spectacled bear and I don't think the panda and spectacled bear have been known to hybridise with each other.
But being the most basal extant member of a family doesn't mean not being able to hybridise with any others, as the cockatiel-galah hybrid shows.
This reminded me of Full Metal Alchemist, where this scientist, in order to keep his government sponsorship, made human-animal hybrids, first with his wife, then with his daughter.
I’m visualizing a gray dolphin with an udder, cow horns, and cow ears. And it makes dolphin squeaks and moos.
Everyone wants to see the combo, but nobody realizes you risk seeing something you CANNOT unsee.
It might be a morbid kind of curiosity, but I'd kinda really like to know what the resulting organisms end up looking like, at least at birth. ('cause I somehow doubt an organism meant to live in the ocean and an organism meant to live entirely on land would hybridize into something that actually could survive for any reasonable time)
And I understand that that's a big part of why they stop these combinations at the embryo stage. But still... what would even happen???
If Dolphin Mice work, do Blue Whale Mice work too?
the embryo probably wouldn't even develop properly. less... moral "scientists" tried to mix humans with chimps basically the same way in the past to create hybrid humans and they got literally nothing out of it, and we are much more similar to chimps than cows are to dolphins. the thing is, some matching genes from both chromosomes are necessary for proper development of the embryo, if those genes don't match, the embryo won't even form.
we will end up with a manatee
but for real now, I dont think it will even get to live, but maybe a dolphin-hippo hybrid, just because they are more closely related? but even then I think it will be too big of a stretch
I'm gonna do ivf at home and do just this 💀
Some deer sheep
It would be an amphibian haha
🐄💕🐬
Anyway, I don't know if the land/sea thing would be _too_ much of a problem. I mean, dolphins are mammals, and can survive indefinitely out of water (as long as it's skin is kept wet). It's not healthy for the dolphin, and it will eventually die like that, but as long as our Cowphin's needs are met there, either way, it might be okay 🤞🏽
When they say the embryo is viable, that just means it will continue to divide. Almost certainly it will not develop into organs and an organism. Most likely outcome is to become a tumor.
Are there any plans to have one of the hybrids grow up just to see what would happen?
No, as this is not even remotely close to the target of the research.
And given researches usually don't have a lot of money to spare, they won't put it into figuring out at which part a random hybrid embroy dies because of incompatible genetic combinations.
Honestly they would probably die during development, however im very curious as well
They would definitely not survive, they would develop to a point though and that could give insight as to how dolphins lost their legs. Dolphins are actually ungulates like cows so they presumably still have the genes for hooves even if they dont have hooves anymore. Its actually funny because giraffes are more related to dolphins than to camels which is just hilarious to me.
I feel like the ethics board would have a field day with this
I think this is something that a decent amount of people want to see but also don't want to risk unneeded suffering of a brand new life. It depends on how closely related the animal is too.
I'm... Kinda curious what the end result of that hybridization would look like, honestly. It probably wouldn't be viable at all, but you'd probably learn a lot in the process.
fantastic work on the thumbnail folks
I've actually been wondering about this for a while, so thank you?
Top tier thumbnail choice.
It is such, such, such a good thing I didn’t become a biologist. I would want to see what these hybrids look like sooooooo much.
Maybe just use your imagine and leave it at that rather than creating another's tortured existence?
@@nmc1859 That is what they saying.
No need to wonder. Use stable diffusion to see the results. :)
@@gtd9536 ew hell no.
Honestly this makes me more curious about it.
Can't wait to see a horse - sea horse hybrid!
I always wondered where a hippocampus puts its tent.
We live in an age of Alex Jones screaming about chimaeras isn't all that wacky
Had to check the upload date to make sure it wasn’t april 1st
Is there any news on how this affects the hox genes? It sounds like this could potentially leave the hybrids with two different sets of "arm" instructions or potentially with deactivated genes.
Hox genes affect placement of body parts not what they are like head section, body section, tail section - which are pretty common even in fruitflies.
Also they are pretty static so if I had dolphins "first section" hox gene it would't likely affect my baldness that much.
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"Host's", not "Hox"
And Hox would be pronounced "H+Oxe" (silent 'e'). Or "Hawk+s"
@@MrJamezk english sarcasm is so hard. Hox doesn't even have a silent e in my language. Wait maybe it's not science but English...
@@MrJamezk There's no "Host's" gene. "Hox" gene is a specific type of genes.
"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (1990)
I mean... yeah, by protecting the planet we are actually protecting the status quo that make the planet so comfortable for us. life doesn't care, life went through worse, and the planet is just a rock floating in space.
@Joe Higashi not if we set off all our nukes in the core at once. Nothing could survive that.
Let's be clear, if we save ourselves without any change in this antropocentric attitude it will not be something to cheer.
Because "lets save the predictably stable climate we need to live, build our homes, get water and grow our food, by saving key organisms and geological features required to sustain it" just isn't catchy.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory
1. We cannot reach the core.
2. Even if we could, nothing would happen. It's a fart into an ocean.
So I guess Pokemon breeding mechanics work in real life now.
The horrors of Water3.
That thumbnail is a textbook example of the phrase "Just because we can do something, does not mean we should"
That title gives new meaning to surf and turf.
That is wild! Imagine a fishbowl with cute little dolphin mice inside.
I wondered why so many are obsessing over the idea of cowphins when obviously dolmice (or dice, if you prefer) are the coolest way to go.
Dolphin Cow hybrids. One step closer to industrial production of dolphin cheese.
Next week: land sharks tricking victims into opening their doors by pretending to deliver pizza.
The Beef and Dairy Network would be so proud
As a SciFi Nerd I am pretty excited and curious, but as a human with feelings I am also kinda horrified and worried about ethics
its no different than playing around with cells in a petri dish, there is nothing morally wrong here. humans care way too much about a bunch of cells when scientists are trying to make scientific progress with them, but not when they release a few million of them in a sock. the embryo won't even develop, the cells die before developing because the chromosomes are too different.
As a person who has watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I am on the fence as to whether or not I want to see another transporter accident.
Most people here are unethical
@@cringy8095 I beg to differ
Curiosity is mandatory, ethics are optional
Yes. Why?
Also never, EVER let dolphins find out. Knowing them, there will surely be some unforseen consequences...
Now I'm actually curious to know if a dolphin-cow could actually grow into a viable creature.
We all are 😭
Why do these scientists have to be so 'ethical.' We could have so much fun playing 'god.'
@@IronwingTechHaven Because some people want to make human-monkey, human-pig, human-horse hybrids and the ethical ones don’t know where to draw the line
and they would be useful too! Having cattle out in the open sea you could start agriculture on the ocean. the first step towards a nation without land
@@DemonFox369 who knows, a human-horse could be an improvement.
let's go ahead and grow one of those dolphin mouse hybrids just to see what it looks like
They're making the mother of all omelettes, Hank. Can't fret over every cow egg.
Great idea. Only got to catch one animal for the Surf & Turf Platter instead of two.
Use a flying fish and you get all 3 mediums 🙃
Welcome to the island of Dr. Hank.
oh yeah it's mad science time
also wasn't expecting Hank to talk about the hardiness of dolphin sperm ever
The surprising thing is he doesn't talk about the hardiness of dolphin sperm more often.
These researchers certainly do have a "back" up plan. That was a glorious shot
It's like a wedding rehearsal where a cow stands in
could it be that since species very different didn't need the requirement to block since they would never cross paths (so there is no protective layers pre-existing)? Like of like how the immune system is garbage when it comes to a virus it has never seen before
It's probably that and a combination of other factors. The reason cows worked so well is bc dolphins are in the ungulate family. Likewise with sheep and deer, tho different family
@@StonedtotheBones13 we are in the same family too, let's do it
This was very interesting to learn about, thanks hank!
Is it so that sailors have access to fresh milk? 😂🤣😂
"A cow makes love to a dolphin" would be te logical sequel to the "An elephant makes love to a pig" episode from South Park.
"...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
Dr. Ian Malcolm
I guess saving endangered species isn’t important. Get your philosophical ass out of here.
04:13 _"But this does not mean that dolphin-cow hybrids are poised to take over the high seas"_
I think you mean _"porpoised to take ovum"_
Hope images of the embryos are made available. A link to the articles will be awesome.
Okay but now we need to see how far those things can grow
This hybrid somewhat reminds me of the taurokampoi in Etruscan myth, which had the upper half of a cow, and the lower half of a fish. The Greeks had something similar, which was called an ophiotaurus. Instead of being half fish though, it was half serpent.
Didn't watch, but the title had me thinking "Great, now coffee shops will offer Dolphine milk..."
It is kind of ironic that an aquatic species' sperm are amazing swimmers as well.
I kind of want them to try ducks now
@@StonedtotheBones13 😆🦆🐬🎵🎶Duck-Dolphin!!!!!!!!!🎶
Poetic, you mean?
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk Good point! That does sound much better, doesn't it? His a bit of a ring to it. 😆
@@ZeFroz3n0ne907 I mean poetic instead of ironic
Oddly, I'm not surprised that dolphin sperm is so...robust. (Never trust a critter that smiles all the time...)
Reading the title... first off, I didn't know we were, but yes that is also my question
"Back before the profound silence took everything away. The seaborn and the seaterrors come for us constantly. My dairy business has been destroyed. They take my cows and oceanize them."
4:13 was such an opportunity for a porpoise pun.
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Begin the raping cow apocalypse.
Although in this case, they definitely should
They should make a cow-shark. It's hard to pronounce when you speak normally but it comes out really well when you sneeze.
New dishes named after the famous Japanese samurai: Moosashi.
Baby cow-shark, doo dee doo dee doo
Baby cow-shark, doo dee doo dee doo...
At this point with how protected panda’s are it own damn fault for not wanting sex
It just wants to go extinct..
And being a carnivore but living on grass. They make it hard to keep them around
I once played a game where a magic castle had a curse that would would slowly transform everything that entered it, into a more docile cow hybrid.
There were cow mermaid dolphins in there man.
I can’t believe those embryos aren’t out there somewhere still with someone who worked on the project. Curiosity would get the best of me and I would raise them as long as they could survive just to see how they would develop into adulthood.
Well let's see them grow up.
Given mice are as closely related to dolphins as humans, this raises the possibility of a human-dolphin hybrid.
some people tried... so we would have known by now
Merpeople?
Zora
There was a researcher a while back that got caught having "intimate relations" with a dolphin so....
@@johnathanbrandt2526 But it was never specifically said what the activity was. It might not have been the type where sperm meets egg. 🫣
I would've really liked to have seen what grew out of these experiments.
very sick, tormented animals that wouldn't survive very long
a clump of cells
A part of me hopes that while the research was being done, it went by the project name Moreau.
How you did this video without one mermaid joke is impressive.
They're making Wuzzles🤣
The real question is why haven't we started making 'em sooner.
Yes, I absolutely agree. Seems a no-brainer to me.
@@Billy_Bad_Ass literally, the resulting embryo won’t have a brain, still worth it tho
no like, why would we have 😭
Too many animal rights
I thought dolphins couldn't be more terrifying but here we are.
The series finale of Earth is wild.
Zona Pellucida? I saw that Tour in '95 with The Bosstones and Beck
It's hard to say it counts as us making the hybrids without them growing up. Feels like a technicality :/
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Perhaps, but producing even more mature embryos makes for a world of ethical questions, to say nothing of what is one to do with something not suited to land nor sea.
@@OnePieceGuy55 nice
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I dont care how "ethical" it is, but i want to see how far these hybrids can develop before dying. That kind of knowledge would be invaluable.
Just imagine a David Attenborough documentary showing this in the wild, and his priceless facial expression and witty remarks 😆😆😆
He made a very popular movie in 1993 about crossing some different animal genetics together🤣🤣🤣
David Attenborough.
@@gm2407 yes thank you. I’ll change it.
@@canaanval yeah, everything was great until that hurricane that knocked the power out to the park.
1:24 you shove a cup up there... and scrape it around the ... wall, then pull it out gravity holding it in... people stand upright so they can use a less invasive minstrel cup to collect the same thing "eggs"
Family member enters room: Hey, whatcha watchin'?
Me: I, uh, it, ummm...not surrrrrrrre....
Well now I am really curious about what a dolphin cow hybrid would look like. I wish there was a way to do it ethically. Like as soon as there is a bad mutation it would terminated because I doubt it would make it full term. But then we have the moral dilemma of what a “bad” mutation is and we would have to be able have it lab grown instead of implanted in a mother so it could be monitored closely, but that isn’t possible yet. I wish though
The creator of Astro Boy explored the subject once. Check out Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature.
There are thirty extant orders of mammals:
1) Tachyglossa (Echidnas)
2) Platypoda (Platypus)
3) Didelphimorphia (Opossum)
4) Paucituberculata (Shrew Opossums)
5) Microbiotheria (Colocolo)
6) Notoryctemorphia (Marsupial Moles)
7) Dasyuromorphia (Carnivorous Marsupials)
8) Peramelemorphia (Bilby and Bandicoots)
9) Diprotodontia (Diprotodonts)
10) Cingulata (Armadillos)
11) Pilosa (Sloths and Anteaters)
12) Tubulidentata (Aardvark)
13) Macroscelidea (Elephant Shrews)
14) Afrosoricida (Tenrecs, Otter Shrews, and Golden Moles)
15) Hyracoidea (Hyraxes)
16) Proboscidea (Elephants)
17) Sirenia (Sirenians)
18) Soricomorpha (Shrews, Moles, Desmans, and Solenodons)
19) Chiroptera (Bats)
20) Erinaceomorpha (Hedgehogs, Gymnures, and Moonrat)
21) Pholidota (Pangolins)
22) Carnivora (Carnivorans)
23) Perissodactyla (Odd-Toed Hoofed Mammals)
24) Artiodactyla (Even-Toed Hoofed Mammals)
25) Cetacea (Whales)
26) Lagomorpha (Lagomorphs)
27) Rodentia (Rodents)
28) Scandentia (Treeshrews)
29) Dermoptera (Colugos)
30) Primata (Primates)
Biologists have too many levels of specification.
Primates FTW! (That's us)
"Diprotodonts"
My latin-to-sarcasm translator comes up with: _"2nd Attempt at Something That Shouldn't Exist"_
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I've also never heard of Hyraxes, and must do the had hands routine on the ol Gargler to find out what it is... 🤔
_EDIT: ah yes, a "fanged prarie dog" as it were (from South Africa... but which apparently is the closest relative to the elephant... go figure!_ 🤨
This is how we got Manatees, aka Sea Cows
Would be interesting if stellar's sea cow could be recreated. At the same time tho, wildly unethical
And now this is nightmare fuel when you combine it with the CIA dolphin experiments. Together that spins an intriuing story.
If a dolphin could walk, we would fear them and let's just say there would have already been dolphin-cow hybrids
This is the first step to making real life Wuzzles! I want a butter-bear! 😁
I had wondered to what extent hybridization just came down to what tries to mate with what & maybe more creatures could if they tried.
This is more relevant than you likely realize. Science currently has I think three definitions of species:
A.) if they are genetically sperm-egg compatible and can produce healthy and viable offspring
B.) if they are able and willing to copulate and can then produce healthy and viable offspring without tech support
C.) for cases in which A or B cannot be verified (which is the majority), then there is a complicated system of morphological classification including studying their genitalia
It is a well-known fact in phylogenetic science circles that any time we are able to study the C classifications and give them a B or A classification, the new classification has a high odds of being a mismatch with the old.
A friend's father told me of when he was in the army they came across a large female dog who was in heat and trying to mate with a small male dog a quarter of her size. The army lads decided to help out and built a ramp for the little male to get up.
@@peterjf7723 dang that mad lad got to live a real life giantess fantasy!! D=
@@peterjf7723 I'm picturing a Chihuahua humping a Great Dane...
There used to be other human species around. Many modern humans have genes from those species due to hybridization. Apparently there is window during evolution where two divergent lines can still reproduce and have fertile offspring.
I know the answer to this before even watching this video;
Because they'll be Delicious.
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Ah so this is why Wailord and Skitty are in the same egg group
Love the idea of a sasquatch possibly existing, why wonder anymore? Let's just hybrid a human and a gorilla together in a lab, then let it go in the wilds of Canada.