SPECIES

Species:
Species is a group of organisms that can reproduce together to produce a fertile
offspring.

Fertile and infertile:

FERTILE: can produce offspring
INFERTILE: they cannot have an offspring

Different species:
• Organisms that belong to different species cannot usually reproduce with one
another.

Very rarely:
Two organisms form different species do reproduce together into the same
enclosure (for example, in the zoo).
For example, a male lion and a female tiger in zoo sometimes reproduce together.
They will only do this if they do not have a member of their own species to
reproduce with.
The young animals produced are called ligers. Ligers are healthy animals. But ligers
cannot have an offspring, they are infertile.