Do These Creatures Called Ligers Really Exist?
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Yes, ligers are the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion is called a tigon. Ligers tend towards gigantism and are generally larger than either of their parents, whilst tigons are generally smaller or at least no larger than their parents. Like most hybrids, both are usually sterile, but occasionally a female will be fertile and can be bred back to a male lion or tiger, producing:
Lion + liger = li-liger
Lion + tigon = li-tigon
Tiger + liger = ti-liger
Tiger + tigon = ti-tigon
There is no record of fertile males, so you could never breed two ligers or two tigons together, or a liger with a tigon.
Respectable zoos frown on the breeding of hybrids such as ligers and tigons, as they have no value from a conservation point of view and are taking up space and resources that could be used to breed endangered species. They are basically freaks bred by unscrupulous zoos in order to make money out of people willing to pay to see them.
Today, there is very little chance of them occurring in the wild – tigers are found only in Asia, lions in Africa and the Gir Forest of India, where there are no tigers. Historically, the Asiatic subspecies of lion had a much greater range which overlapped with that of the tiger, so it is possible, though unlikely, that they may once have sometimes occurred in the wild.
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The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tiger (not to be confused with a tigon). It is the largest of all cats and extant felines.
The history of ligers dates to at least the early 19th century in Asia. A painting of two liger cubs was made by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772?1844). In 1825, G.B. Whittaker made an engraving of liger cubs born in 1824. The parents and their three liger offspring are also depicted with their trainer in a 19th Century painting in the naïve style.
Two liger cubs after being born in 1837, were exhibited to William IV and to his successor Victoria. On 14 December 1900 and on 31 May 1901, Carl Hagenbeck wrote to zoologist James Cossar Ewart with details and photographs of ligers born at the Hagenbeck’s Tierpark in Hamburg in 1897.
I found this article:
The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tiger.
A tigon is a hybrid cross between a male tiger and a female lion (lioness). Tigons are less common.
It depends on the sex and specie of the mother and father. These hybrid animals are man made. Lions and tigers don’t met in the wild.
There are also Jaglions, and Leopons, and Pumapards, and…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jaglio…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_hy…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felid_hybri…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(bio…
Liger info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligerhttp://www.liger.org/http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/ligers.h…http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/li…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59B…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwLmkd8f…http://videohub.ro/video/1127/Liger-on-3…http://www.myrtlebeachsafari.com/gallery…
In fact, they do exist! Made famous by Napoleon Dynamite, ligers are actually a real creature, though not like Napoleon described in the movie.
Check out the wikipedia article below: