The Devil Hunters

The hybrid theory states that the Jersey Devil is a cross of different animals that do not usually mate. A good example of a hybrid is a mule - the cross between a horse and a donkey. People believe that cross mating would explain the variety of the creature's descriptions, like the horse head, wings, hooves, giraffe neck, etc.

Similarities: The theory only speculates on how something like this could exist, not necessarily what it would look like, so the similarities would occur based on what creatures were combined.

Conflicts: Hybrids tend to be sterile creatures, meaning that the only way for them to reproduce is to continue using the parental animals and mate them again (most hybrids can not be reproduced by hybrid - hybrid mating). This would mean that the same strange mating would have to occur over and over to keep a continuous flow of hybrid creatures. It's also hard to find the right genetic match of creatures that are capable of performing a hybrid mate. Horses and donkeys are similar species; however, you couldn't mate a dog with a bird, for example, and actually create a new animal.

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