Hybridicity

Hybrids - what are they?

According to the Free Online Dictionary, a hybrid refers to several things:
1. the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents, think mule which comes from a donkey and a horse ...
2. it can also refer to something of mixed origin or composition, such as a word combined from two different languages. I think of the Puertorican term for trash can, "zafacon", which is derived from "safety can", or the word "gringo", derived from "green go" - which of course was a chant used to let the military know it was not welcome in town....
3. or, like my little hybrid car, something having two kinds of components, in this case, a car powered by both an electric motor and a combustion engine.

Let me tell you a little about the beautiful hybrid goth/butterfly/lemur pictured. She is a hybrid because of her genetics and because her power of locomotion comes from both her limbs and her wings. So she fits definitions number 1 and number 3 above. Black and white, she is, and which parent is responsible for what in her background has now become confused, since both of her parents had wings. Her father's wings were all the colors of the rainbow, and as large as hers, while her mother's wings were smaller, like a fairy's and only black and white.

Neither parent had a tail, but two of her grandfathers had tails, and they are, of course, both of her parents's fathers. No one remembers what her paternal grandfather's tail, because it was surgically removed only hours after he was born. In those days, having a tail was a very unusual thing, and still considered ugly. Things do change, don't they. Goth buttterfly lemurs are much more common these days.

If you are interested in meeting hybrid Zelda, let me know, and I'll pass on your message to her.