When two different kinds of animals live in the same place and can meet and make babies together.
Sympatry is a special word that scientists use to talk about animals that live in the same area and can have babies together.
Examples:
Sympatry happens when two kinds of animals live in the same place.
In sympatry, animals from different groups can have babies together.
The scientists studied sympatry in the forest.
The zoo is a place where sympatry can happen.
In the land of make-believe, sympatry makes strange animals.
Sympatry is when animals from different groups live in the same place and can have babies together.