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Name: Sergio Cabral
Status: student
Age: 17

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Date: 2/23/2003
Question:
can you breed a chicken with a hawk or falcon?

Replies:
No. These birds are too far apart in genetic differences. Hawks and falcons are not even in the same order as chickens within the Bird Class [Aves.]

It would be like trying to mate a cat to a dog.

Steve Sample

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