• Question: What happens if a human mates with an animal?

    Asked by SophieFarrell to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 8 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Two different species aren’t normally able to mate because of differences in the reproductives systems. Where they can mate, their off-spring are sterile which means they can’t reproduce. So, you can cross-breed a horse with a donkey (two different species) which creates a “mule” but that mule can’t mate with anything else to produce a baby.

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      ha! I already answered your question during the chat! 🙂

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Humans can’t mate with animals and I wouldn’t have thought there should be any situation when a human should be even attempting to mate with an animal 🙂

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Humans are animals too. So if a human mates with another human they are in fact mating with an animal. If a human mates with another species it is very unlikely that there would be any offspring: the egg and sperm would most likely not join together. And even if they did the offspring would probably be infertile. It’s also illegal.

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      Interesting! Usually this doesn’t happen but if it does, it would be rather painful for the human or the animal.

      Essentially, anatomically, the reproductive organs of the human and that of animal are not compatible. Further, the sperm of the animal wouldn’t be able to bind and fertilise that egg of the human and vice versa, so not offspring would come out of this mating.

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