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Greylag Goose x Canada Goose

Anser anser x Branta canadensis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Anatidae

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction. Generally, it means that each cell has genetic material from two different organisms, whereas an individual where some cells are derived from a different organism is called a chimera. Hybrids are not always intermediates between their parents such as in blending inheritance (a now discredited theory in modern genetics by particulate inheritance), but can show hybrid vigor, sometimes growing larger or taller than either…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 19