19 Comments so far

1. mulattoc on July 17, 2009 7:02 PM

   Ligers are indeed real. They are the result of a female tiger and a male lion. Ligers are enormous animals standing 12 feet tall on it’s hind legs. Check out this website for pictures and further description.
   The people on here are wrong, the males can not reproduce, the females can. Also they are not a “creation” of man. The first liger mated on their own, though they were in zoos, their keepers did not make them mate or artificially inseminate them.
   I had the same question too after seeing Napoleon Dynamite so I researched it, that’s how I know all this stuff. All confirmed by the website below, which also lists all other known big cat combinations.

2. Peaceful… on July 17, 2009 7:10 PM

   Yes they are real, ligers are not able to reproduce, they are made “artificially”

3. El Mas Quentona on July 17, 2009 7:59 PM

   look up liger town on the net they are real….some hick from idaho was breeding them

4. fadded on July 17, 2009 8:46 PM

   You are too smart for these kind of questions

5. orchard_ on July 17, 2009 8:51 PM

   Yes, it is real. A male tiger mated with a female lioness.

6. Jen on July 17, 2009 9:31 PM

   they r real so r tigons ive seen pics of them theyre pretty awesome

7. invisibl on July 17, 2009 9:49 PM

   Yes they are real. They even sometimes happen the old-fashioned way (at least in captivity) rather than through artificial insemination. Lions and tigers are genetically close enough that inter-breeding can be successful. This doesn’t happen in nature because in nature they would never meet, living in different parts of the world. A male lion with a female tiger produces a liger. A male tiger with a female lion produces a tigon, but these are much rarer. Male ligers are sterile, but female ligers have reproduced with the help of male lions or tigers, producing li-ligers or ti-ligers. Here’s one website where you can see pictures and learn more.

8. just?won on July 17, 2009 9:54 PM

   they are real but man cross bred a lion a tigerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

9. kmdevine on July 17, 2009 10:28 PM

   Sorry, they are Hollywood…but there was a recent bear shot in Canada which was a mix between a Grizly and a Polar bear – highly irregular – an American hunter shot it.

10. Out of commission on July 17, 2009 11:11 PM

    dude, that is sooooo napoleon dynamite!!!

11. sungirli on July 17, 2009 11:13 PM

    they r real, at least i think so…

12. Silver Jack0 on July 17, 2009 11:31 PM

    ligers are the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. They are very real not created in the wild but in captivity.

13. dinalsch on July 17, 2009 11:32 PM

    Yup, they’re real! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
    Napolean Dynamite rocks too!

14. krrtrack on July 17, 2009 11:57 PM

    Your funny, thanx for the giggle.
    I just googled Ligers and yes they are real. Ligers are born sterile, and grow larger than Lions.

15. islandgi on July 18, 2009 12:09 AM

    They’re real… Here is a link to a zoo website with some photos.http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/l…

16. artistag on July 18, 2009 1:05 AM

    There was somehting about that on the news a few weeks ago. Just go to like msnbc.com,msn.com,aol.com and look for liger and see what comes up

17. historyl on July 18, 2009 2:03 AM

    Hollywood. However there are tigons

18. tyker202 on July 18, 2009 2:58 AM

    They are real, just a mixed breed between a lion and a tiger, a hybrid. They cannot reproduce, though, just like a mule can’t.

19. spitonap on July 18, 2009 3:17 AM

    there are a Hollywood invent…..