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I would really like a photo in this article, particularly one of the mounted specimen. - 00:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

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Was this done deliberately or was it a mistake?

Mistake. The general assumption was that it wasn't possible. This turned out to be incorrect.Geni 21:46, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't Motty be considered proof that scientists were in error when they classified the African and Asian elephants in separate genera? After all, if they're closely related enough to produce a hybrid (including having the same number of chromosomes), that should mean they're in the same genus. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 06:44, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Almost all hybrids are cross-genus. So no. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[1] 01:14, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To complement Brightgalrs' reply, the original poster makes a couple of wrong assumptions: First that hybrids can only occur if the parents are of the same genus. That is not the case, and an example is the Sheep-goat_hybrid (sheep are of the genus Ovis, goats are Capra). Second, that both parents need to have the same number of chromosomes, something contradicted by the most famous hybrids, the mules and hinnies, which have 63 chromosomes as their parents are a donkey with 62 chromosomes and a horse with 64. 128.249.1.194 (talk) 21:52, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Other Elephant Hybrids[edit]

Although Motty is the only known hybrid elephant from the regular spicies of elephants, a Chinese safari park has a sub-specific hybrid (two subsecies) of the Asian Elephant. The hybrids mother was a Sumatran Elephant and its father was a Indian Elephant. I got my infomation and souces from Hybrid and Mutant Animals. It may or may not be true, but somebody should check, just in case. Also, I heard that the two species of african elephant have cross-breed and produced a hybrid. --24.147.1.197 (talk) 13:11, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Jacob Chesley[reply]

See http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:23, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Sub-specific hybrids" are unremarkable. Also, it has long been known that African Elephants interbreed freely where their ranges overlap. This is, indeed, one reason why they were not classed as different species until relatively recently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.116.101 (talk) 07:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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