Its entomologists are breeding voracious hybrids of the microscopic worms known as nematodes that eat lawn-destroying grubs.

The search for a way to breed large red hybrids has been given a new boost with the discovery of Cattleya milleri.

It turns out the cave populations are insomniacs, at least compared to their surface relatives, and if you breed hybrids, those animals are also insomniacs-low sleep requirements are apparently genetically dominant.

Nor can the seedless clonal rhizomes be used to breed new hybrids.

Lionel Walter bred hybrids between zebras and horses (zebroids) and a hybrid foal is on display.

Law professors should delve into poetry with reluctance, even trepidation, he says, for efforts to splice together the two disciplines "are likely to breed ungainly hybrids."

"I guarantee the neighbors won't like that, either," said Mr. Stoneback, who has a state license to breed hybrids and likes to roughhouse with his 150-pound pets.

In reality this was a Cylon "farm" set up to breed human-Cylon hybrids using captured humans, and he was also performing invasive tests on her reproductive organs.

Cagebird breeders sometimes breed hybrids between species of finch, such as goldfinch x canary.

Russia has bred and used dog-jackal hybrids for bomb-sniffing at airports.