Macropod hybrids are hybrids of animals within the family Macropodidae, which includes kangaroos and wallabies. Several macropod hybrids have been experimentally bred, including:
Male Female Result Eastern wallaroo,Osphranter robustus robustus Red kangaroo,O. rufus Infertile female* Swamp wallaby,Wallabia bicolor Red-necked wallaby,N. rufogriseus Sterile male† Agile wallaby,N. agilis Red-necked wallaby,N. rufogriseus Sterile male† Tammar wallaby,N. eugenii Black-striped wallaby,N. dorsalis Sterile male† Western grey kangaroo,M. fuliginosus Eastern grey kangaroo,M. giganteus Sterile male and fertile female Red kangaroo,O. rufus‡ Eastern grey kangaroo,M. giganteus Tammar wallaby,N. eugenii Parma wallaby,N. parma Tammar wallaby,N. eugenii Pademelon,Thylogale species
Some hybrids between similar species have been achieved by housing males of one species and females of the other together to limit the choice of a mate. To create a "natural" macropod hybrid, young animals of one species have been transferred to the pouch of another so as to imprint into them the other species. In-vitro fertilization has also been used and the fertilized egg implanted into a female of either species.
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