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A tigon is the result of cross breeding a male tiger with a female lion. This does not occur in the wild because of the territorial differences of the two cats but breeding between the two cats does occur. When mixed in captivity breeding will naturally happen and the resulting offspring will be a tigon. There is [...]

 
 
 
LowresTV - Larry The Liger
Larry Liger is really the only member of the cast who appears to be totally invested in making the show work… his motivations are misleading as he is horribly addicted to caffiene and is on a constant caffiene buzz… until he crashes…usually during a song and dance for the kids
“WOOHOO!! YeeHaa! [...]

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A liger — a cross between a tiger and a lion — that was born last summer has now gone on public display in an open-air enclosure at a Siberian zoo, RIA Novosti reports. The female called Zita is one of two cubs born from a cross between a female Bengalese tiger and an [...]

 
Maryann Mott
National Geographic News
Photo Gallery: Pictures of Ligers
It’s half lion, half tiger, and completely real. Now thanks to a cameo in the 2004 cult movie Napoleon Dynamite, the liger has leaped into the limelight, prompting fans to ask, What are they really like?
The faintly striped, shaggy-maned creatures are the offspring of male lions and female tigers, [...]

 
Corky Siemaszko
NY Daily News
Lion + tiger = liger.The result of that equation is a 10-foot-long, 900 pound freak of nature named Hercules that is fast becoming one of Miami’s hottest attractions.”It’s not something you see every day,” said big cat breeder Dr. Bhagavan Antle. The spawn of a daddy lion and a mommy tiger, Hercules [...]

USEFUL GENETIC TERMS

Abundism   
 
 

Markings are more prolific than usual   
 
 

Albinism   
 
 

Lacking melanin, also known as amelanistic. “True” albinos entirely lack markings and have pale blue (”partial albino”) or pink eyes (”true albino”), but there are many degrees of partial albino. Some forms of albino are temperature dependent e.g. the Siamese cat has a form of albinism where pigmentation [...]