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Macropod hybrids are hybrids of animals within the family Macropodidae, the family of species that includes kangaroos and wallbies. Several macropod hybrids have been experimentally bred, including:
1. May have been so poorly fertile as to be considered sterile
2. Although the males had testes, they did not produce sperm and some were found to have Y-chromosome abnormalities.
3. In-vitro fertilization used
Some hybrids between similar species have been achieved by housing males of one species and females of the other together to limit the choice of mate. To create a "natural" macropod hybrid, young animals of one species have been transferred to the pouch of another so as to imprint into them the other species. In-vitro fertilization has also been used and the fertilized egg implanted into a female of either species.