interbreed - breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
The Irvine family from Braehead, Drummuir, Keith, secured both the beef interbreed and junior interbreed championships with a home-bred bull named Anside Orton.
The Interbreed Pair heifer championship will be presented at lunchtime followed by Interbreed Pair Senior Championship late afternoon and the show will close with the Overall Interbreed Dairy Pairs.
Although chimps (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) became separate species 1.6 million to 2 million years ago, they are still closely related enough to interbreed occasionally.
At the time Martin Seyfert, an international interbreed cattle judge said: "Sir Crespo is the best-muscled and well-balance three-year old bull I have ever seen".
The Wilsons had some consolation when Mabel helped the Jerseys to the interbreed pairs alongside Whiteoaks Julian Flower, exhibited by Murray Farms of Pattingham near Wolverhampton - who also took the interbreed heifer title with the Jersey Trecanda Vindication Lily.
In the wild, animals rarely interbreed for one potent reason: The offspring are usually infertile, or unable to reproduce--which can spell extinction for a species.
It was a particularly good day for the Irvine family from Braehead, Drummuir, Keith, when they secured both the beef interbreed and junior interbreed championships with a home-bred bull named Anside Orton.
