Talk:Bovid hybrid

Beefalo

beefalos, crossing a beef cow and an American Buffalo, are common. The meat is popular because it is lower in fat than beef. RJFJR 17:24, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Mẽo

This article states that a water buffalo–cow hybrid is impossible, but according to the Vietnamese Wikipedia, an infertile hybrid between a water buffalo and cow, called mẽo, is bred (with difficulty) in parts of northern Vietnam. The article is unsourced, but it's intriguing if true. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:42, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

That's not how we define "hybrid" in English.

"Both extant bison species descend from hybrids. American bison ("buffalo") descend from a hybrid of the now extinct steppe bison and the wild yak. European bison (also known as wisents) descend from the so-called "Higgs Bison" (a play on Higgs boson), a hybrid of the steppe bison and the aurochs, which is also now extinct."

The quoted scientific sources do not use the word "hybrid" to describe the ancestry of these animals.

Also the entire article as written concerns bovines only, and not bovids. The article should properly be re-titled "Bovine Hybrid", as there are some fairly obvious bovid hybrids that are neglected.

Drsruli (talk) 18:02, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Sfnp

@Contrawwftw: Why did you switch the references from {{sfnp}}? Using sfnp isn't non-standard; it's a perfectly acceptable way to reference things on Wikipedia. – Scyrme (talk) 14:00, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I feel that sfnp refs are best used when a work is cited many times in the article. For these they were only cited once each so it was smoother to just have them as regular citations. Having the standard wikipedia citation is also more accessible for those using Visual Editing mode as you don't have to go into the Source editor to edit the citations Contrawwftw (talk) 03:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)