The liger is a cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This combination produces an offspring with more lionistic features than if the reverse pairing had occured. That would produce a more tigeristic creature known as a tigon. Both are members of genus Panthera.There is no scientific name assigned to […]
The history of these hybrids has been very carefully worked out by Professor Valentine Bail, Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, from whose papers the following account is taken. The parents of these hybrids were in a travelling menagerie owned at first by Mr. Thomas Atkins, and subsequently by his son Mr. John […]
The large size of the liger and small size of the tigon is due to “genomic imprinting” - the unequal expression of genes depending on parent of origin i.e. whether certain growth genes are inherited from the male or the female. This is linked to the species’ lifestyle and breeding strategy - whether the female […]
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
Historical accounts of ligers and tigons (chronological order):
CJ Cornish et al (undated), R De Davison (1863), K Ackermann (1898), A Rörig (1903), Deutshe Landwirtshaftliche Presse (1904), Boettger (1906), T Noack (1908), A Sokolowsky (1909), H Przibram (1910), SS Flower (1929), L Reisinger (1929), Sir PC Mitchell (1930), H Heck (1932), RI Pocock […]
I decided to add a liger discussion area to the site and hope that everyone will say a few words about their favorite animal - THE LIGER.
You can also make comments to all the posts on the site. It’s nice to hear what other people thing about the topics and photos that go with them.
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Here are some awesome liger pictures from a news article out of China. Take a look at those cute baby ligers! The shot below is my favorite - looks like one big happy family.
Peoples Daily Online
Quadruplet liger cubs play with their lion father and tiger mother at Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in suburb of Haikou city, capital of […]
I found this little story and thought I’d post it for everyone to check out:
SPEARFISH - Spearfish’s biggest cat, a rare cross between a lion and tiger, has died at the Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary.
Dr. David Elsom, a Spearfish veterinarian who donates time at the sanctuary, said the cat suffered from chronic renal […]
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! […]
MosNews - Photo from Newsru.com
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, […]
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