Hybrids?

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    Cam there be a black-backed jackal and fox hybrid? I mean, even if there are no records, they are both canines and maybe can hybrid? Would they be considered an unrealistic hybrid and their pups would need to be sterile?

    I'm sorry - it would not be realistic for a black-backed jackal and any kind of true fox to hybridize. They are both canids (in the family Canidae), but they are not both canines (in the group Canini within Canidae) - the jackal is a canine, but foxes are vulpines (in the group Vulpini within Canidae), and in general canines and foxes can't hybridize at all.


    (There have been, very rare, recorded cases in which a coyote or a dog bred with a red fox and did produce offspring, but in every case the pups were either stillborn, or died soon after birth.)