The wolphin is the extraordinary result of breeding a female bottle-nosed dolphin with a male false killer whale. In captivity there are 2 occurrences, both are in the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. The 2 captive wolphins are a mother wolphin (wolphins are fertile), named Kekaimalu, and her third young (the previous 2 young died). You can read the news artivle of 23 december 2004 here. They are also reported to exist in the wild.
Kekaimalu, which means “from the peaceful ocean” by the way, is now 23 years old and the wolphin’s size (10ft long, 600lbs) is just in between that of a bottle-nosed dolphin (6 ft, 400 punds) and a false killer whale (14 ft, 2000 pounds). Also, the number of teeth (66) are just in between that of a bottle-nosed dolphin (88) and a false killer whale (44)!
Wolphins, are known in popular seafaring lore as “The Great Grey Beast”.
A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. The zorse in infertile and looks like a horse with stripes. Horses have 64 chromosomes, zebra’s have between 44 and 62 (depending on the species), most zorses however have 63 chromosomes. They are not as easy to handle as purebred horses for drought and riding.
The Grolar is a hybrid between a grizzly and a polar bear, they are also called pizzly, grolar bear and polizzly. By their Inuit name, they are known as ‘Nanulak’, a combination of polar bear (Nanuk) and grizzly bear (Aklak). In 2006 a grolar has been shot in the wild (