Mulefoot wrote:
Here's how it works in SLOP.
Generally if they can't hybridize in our world, they can't in SLOP. However, since the denizens of the SLOP universe are genetically converged (the Great Convergence) to a degree, some hybrids that were almost possible in our world are possible in SLOP.
As far as I know, vulpines and canines cannot hybridize in our world. In SLOP they sometimes can. Laura Deighton was a wolf/fox hybrid. Her father is obviously a Todd but we never saw her mother. Sean, Mr. Deighton's right hand man is also his brother-in-law. He's wolf ilk...Vilkin. Laura, if she had lived, would have been probably sterile, but not necessarily.
Tag (tigers) and Oroslani/Singha (lions) can hybridize. In the past, the hybrids didn't do well in either society and were pariahs. Now you can find quite a few hybrids of this sort on a multi-generational basis.
I haven't decided about the other big cat races in SLOP such as Oncano (you'll meet one in a few pages). I don't think hybridization tween Seer (lynx folk) and the other cats are possible but maybe it could happen in SLOP. Wotan has been helping me flesh out the felines so hopefully he'll chime in.
The mustelids in SLOP can interbreed to the point that Fitch really are a through mix of a few different weasel peoples. Shellers (otters) can occasionally hybridize with Fitch and Brock but its rare.
All the Hahursa(bear) can breed with each other.
Teg (sheep) and Coronado (goats) might possibly hybridize in SLOP but its rare.
Some of the races in SLOP are just kind of isolated. There's no other bunnies for the Cunni to breed with.
Fel might be able to hybridize with an antelope race that I haven't shown yet.
Just follow real world rules most of the time.
Which leaves unexplained the inevitable exception to those rules, (there's always an exception, right?) um, >erk< , Uthy.
Is she some improbable hybrid of reptilian and mammalian? ("They're Real!") Was she born, or hatched, or just kind of materialized downstream from the Union Carbide plant? Can she reproduce? (Gawd she'd be a lovely mother. Kids or dinner? Dinner or kids? Mmm-- Both!) Are there others of, um, "her kind", or is she an isolated incident, like the squirrel of a thousand eyes on the Simpsons?