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Would it be possible to cross breed and scientifically create a Chocobo?

>> No.1390596

sure why not?

>> No.1390603

possible? yes. now? nawwwwww.

>> No.1390608

regular chocobo yes

gold and black chocobos with water crossing abilities, fuck no

>> No.1390610

Is it just an ostrich with feathers on its neck? Then yeah, it's possible.

>> No.1390612

I'd be the first to own it. A chicken + horse + ostrich + food coloring = NAWWWWW!

>> No.1390620
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1390620

see picture, breed for coloration/temperment/size.
done.
If you can get the modern dogs from wolves I'm pretty sure this is feasible.

>> No.1390621

Fucking Theo and his super uber black chocobo which always had better stats than my gold ones.

>> No.1390624
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1390624

That could work... Then I'm makin a slime. Just sayin.

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>>1390624

go for it bro.

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>>1390620
mix with this chicken and you are good to go

>> No.1390657
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1390657

it's been done bro.

>> No.1390665

I think it would be very easy using ostriches and artificial selection... time consuming and expensive, but easy.

>> No.1390679

>>1390665

yup.
it would take several generations but perhaps by the time you die you would have yourself something similar to a chocobo.

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>>1390594
SOUTH AMERICAN TERROR BIRDS AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

>> No.1390699

>>1390656
And what would that be?

>> No.1390703

>>1390657

this is incredibly dangerous to do because ostriches have very flexible necks and are notorious assholes. scenes like this picture are very uncommon because most ostriches would rip their rider's face off for sitting on them.

selective breeding is necessary to create a bird that cannot peck your face off while you sit on them.

>> No.1390736

>I am author of thread FYI

How would the ostrich become yellow?

>> No.1390759

>>1390736

the same way dogs come in all sorts of colors today...herpaderpa
don't you understand artificial selection -_-

>> No.1390776

Chocobos are clearly not ratites.

Looks like you'd have to start with something much more like the secretarybird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird
Nevermind the chocobo's "greens" eating habits, they have definite predatory skull morphology.

>> No.1390778

>>1390736

after enough generations you'd get a mutation with slightly yellowish color, you breed those more often in the overal population until enough generations have passed for them all to be yellow

>> No.1390798

>>1390776

I'm pretty sure that I've heard about fossils found in australia that are an ostrich relative that were carnivorous predators. but have since gone extinct.

>> No.1390801

It's arguably possible to create some Chocobos.
Artificial selection on Ostriches already does half of the work, but you'd have to increase the size a good 40%, and find a way to tame those goddamn birds naturally- Chocobos are NICE, Ostriches are FUCKING ASSHOLES.

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>> No.1390846

>>1390801
you keep a population of ostriches, maybe 100 or so. every generation, you take out the 1/3rd of all based on all the different criteria. these would be color, temperament, size, and fluffycuddlyness.

so all you do is remove the 33 angriest, baldest, smallest, least yellow birds every generation. after enough time you should have chocobos

>> No.1390854

>>1390846

edit:

it would also work to remove the 10 angriest birds, the 10 baldest, the 10 least yellow, and the 10 smallest. the effect of removing birds based on single characteristics instead of all characteristics is the same on the average quality of the population

>> No.1390856

wolves eat people, dogs are best buddies.

>> No.1390869

>>1390801

Science has proven that this is much easier than you would think. Dmitry Belyaev turned vicious wild foxes into pets that begged for human attention in less than 50 years.

>> No.1391055

>>1390869
Okay i think i'm trying this
give me some badass rodent-like animals