Do Ligers Have Reproductive Organs?
All Ligers have reproductive organs. However, while male ligers (cross between a male lion and female tiger) are sterile, female ligers are fertile, and they can reproduce. Because only female ligers and tigons (cross between a male tiger and female lion) are fertile, a liger cannot reproduce with a tigon.
If a liger were to reproduce with a tiger, it would be called a ti-liger, and if it were to reproduce with a lion, it would be called a li-liger. The fertility of hybrid big cat females is well-documented across a number of different hybrids. This is in accordance with Haldane’s rule: in hybrids of animals whose gender is determined by sex chromosomes, if one gender is absent, rare or sterile, it is the heterogametic sex (the one with two different sex chromosomes e.g. X and Y).
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of course..but they are steryl