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As for the question of draconic species, while my own opinion lends me towards conservation (and recent intelligence gathered from Blood of Tyrants suggests that Kaziliks, at least, are close enough to Celestials to interbreed and produce viable offspring) and thus there is but a single species of dragon (being as they are not much more different from each other than individual breeds of dog are) interfertility does not put the question to rest. | As for the question of draconic species, while my own opinion lends me towards conservation (and recent intelligence gathered from Blood of Tyrants suggests that Kaziliks, at least, are close enough to Celestials to interbreed and produce viable offspring) and thus there is but a single species of dragon (being as they are not much more different from each other than individual breeds of dog are) interfertility does not put the question to rest. | ||
− | While sterile hybrids are well-known, the species in the genus | + | While sterile hybrids are well-known, the species in the genus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphophorus] are able to hybridize fairly freely between one another; indeed, most of the platyfish and swordtails found in pet stores are such hybrids and, as anyone who raised mixed-gender tanks of such livebearers can attest, are quite fecund into the second, third, and nth generations. Because of this, if we wish to classify dragons into species we ought to rely on characteristics other than their interfertility (or lack thereof) but rather their physical and behavioral characteristics. [[User:Solaris|Solaris]] ([[User talk:Solaris|talk]]) 00:04, 16 June 2015 (UTC) |