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You can certainly cross two Junglebobs, but they lose their "looks" and their size very quickly. The F¹ cross varies immensely from the F³ generation, unlike in Savannahs, where fifth generation (F4) is considered a pure Savannah, and can be recorded as an Stud Book Tradition.
As to the common assertion that Bobcats and Domestics both have nineteen chromosomal pairs - yes they do, but they're wholly different genera, and there's insifficient chromosomal correspondence between the two species. Potatoes and chimpanzees likewise have 38 chromosomes.
Are their intergeneric crosses in the cat world? Certainly. The ocelot, in fact, has 18 chromosomal pairs, and will cross with domestic cats, producing a new Karotype which carries 37 chromosomes, but males will, by necessity, be sterile. The enormity of the genomic disparity between Bobcats and Domestic Cats speaks for itself. Take a look at the chart for authenticated interspecific crosses:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.../500px-Authenticated_Felid_Hybrids_(2013).jpg
and at the interspecies timeline chart for hybrids here:
http://pictures-of-cats.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/feline-hybrids-chart-1.png
The Bobcat shares genomic agreement with the three Lynxes - the Eurasian (Lynx lynx), the Iberian (Lynx pardinus), and the Canadian (Lynx canadensis). Period.
Conspicuous by their absence in both charts are the potato, the chimpanzee, and the domestic cat, although I do rather like the idea of a Potato x Himalayan cat hybrid, giving The Himatato.
You can certainly cross two Junglebobs, but they lose their "looks" and their size very quickly. The F¹ cross varies immensely from the F³ generation, unlike in Savannahs, where fifth generation (F4) is considered a pure Savannah, and can be recorded as an Stud Book Tradition.
As to the common assertion that Bobcats and Domestics both have nineteen chromosomal pairs - yes they do, but they're wholly different genera, and there's insifficient chromosomal correspondence between the two species. Potatoes and chimpanzees likewise have 38 chromosomes.
Are their intergeneric crosses in the cat world? Certainly. The ocelot, in fact, has 18 chromosomal pairs, and will cross with domestic cats, producing a new Karotype which carries 37 chromosomes, but males will, by necessity, be sterile. The enormity of the genomic disparity between Bobcats and Domestic Cats speaks for itself. Take a look at the chart for authenticated interspecific crosses:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.../500px-Authenticated_Felid_Hybrids_(2013).jpg
and at the interspecies timeline chart for hybrids here:
http://pictures-of-cats.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/feline-hybrids-chart-1.png
The Bobcat shares genomic agreement with the three Lynxes - the Eurasian (Lynx lynx), the Iberian (Lynx pardinus), and the Canadian (Lynx canadensis). Period.
Conspicuous by their absence in both charts are the potato, the chimpanzee, and the domestic cat, although I do rather like the idea of a Potato x Himalayan cat hybrid, giving The Himatato.
