Can a liger breed with a leopard or a jaguar?
I know ligers can breed with lions or tigers, to make ti-ligers, li-ligers etc, but not breed with their own kind. I also know that lions can breed with leopards and jaguars as it has been done. So surely a liger can breed with a leopard or a jaguar? That would be so amazing, it would be, say if it was a leopard the liger re-produced with, 50% leopard, 20% lion, 20% tiger! How great would that be? Surely it’s possible as they are all from the same genus.
To j2010:
Yeah ligers can’t reproduce with other ligers but can reproduce with lions and tigers, they’re called either li-ligers or ti-ligers lol, for example a li-liger is 75% lion, 25% tiger, so surely if that can happen they can reproduce with leopards and jaguars?
Haha I got a pic for you, it’s a ti-liger.
[url]http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/tiliger01.jpg[/url]
It’s father was a tiger and his mother was a liger. So he is 75% tiger and 25% lion. Cool or what?
Sorry that didn’t seem to work. Hopefully this will, if it doesnt, I’m afraid you’ll just have to type it into the address bar. 
http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/tiliger01.jpg
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i always thought ligers could not reproduce due to being i think its called a hybrid..maybe im wrong
oh really? haha i never knew that, guess you learn something every day. but that would be pretty interesting to see !! =]
I see no logical reason for doing any of this. Man is screwing with nature “again”, and just can’t leave it alone.
Actually, most ligers (offspring of a male lion and female tiger) and tigons (offspring of a male tiger and female lion) are sterile due to the parents having different numbers of chromosomes. Males are always sterile, but occasionally a female will be fertile, and can be bred back to one of the parent species, producing:
Liger + lion = li-liger
Liger + tiger = ti-liger
Tigon + tiger = ti-tigon
Tigon + lion = li-tigon
Since they are in the same genus as leopards and jaguars, it is possible that a fertile liger or tigon female could be bred with a male leopard or jaguar, but I do not know of a single case of this happening, or why anyone would want to do such a thing in the first place. It is bad enough that valuable resources, which could be used to breed endangered species, are being taken up with the breeding of lion-tiger hybrids simply for the amusement of human beings – to then start crossing those hybrids with other cats would be wasteful and pointless.