Hybrids May Thrive Where Parent Species Fear to Tread - NYTimes.com

Remarkable Creatures - Hybrids May Thrive Where Parent Species Fear to Tread - NYTimes.com: "On May 15, 1985, trainers at Hawaii Sea Life Park were stunned when a 400- pound gray female bottlenose dolphin named Punahele gave birth to a dark-skinned calf that partly resembled the 2,000-pound male false killer whale with whom she shared a pool. The calf was a wholphin, a hybrid that was intermediate to its parents in some characteristics, like having 66 teeth compared with the bottlenose’s 88 and the 44 of the false killer whale, a much larger member of the dolphin family."