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1. 14hp1 Had this To Say

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   Male Lion Female Tiger and Male tiger Female lion

2. Clare S Had this To Say

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   Ligers and tigons are sterile hybrids produced by crossing two different species – a tiger and a lion.
   A Liger has a male lion and female tiger parent.
   A tigon has a male tigerand female lion parent.
   Hope this helps!

3. Music Girl C~* Had this To Say

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   WACKY!!!

4. David Had this To Say

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   Yes, of course i do.

5. Avondrow Had this To Say

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   I know what they are!

6. Alex Had this To Say

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   Yes

7. Nomvalt Had this To Say

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   Yes, of course. Doesn’t everyone?

8. Missfit Had this To Say

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   yep

9. Kar Had this To Say

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   The Liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger (i.e, Panthera leo × Panthera tigris[1]). A liger resembles a tiger with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest “pure” taxon. Ligers and tigers enjoy swimming, whereas lions do not. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.
   Rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild.[2] Such mating may have occurred when, in uncommon circumstances, tigers were forced into ranges inhabited by the Asiatic Lion, Panthera leo persica. However, since the present-day ranges of wild lions and tigers no longer overlap,[3] it is generally held that such a combination of species would occur very rarely.
   The tigon is a hybrid cross between a male tiger and a female lion. The tigon is not currently as common as the converse hybrid, the liger; however, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tigons were more common than ligers.
   Tigons can exhibit characteristics of both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots — lion cubs are spotted) and stripes from the father. Any mane that a male tigon may have will appear shorter and less noticeable than a lion’s mane and is closer in type to the ruff of a male tiger. It is a common misconception that Tigons are smaller than lions or tigers. They do not exceed the size of their parent species because they inherit growth-inhibitory genes from the lioness mother, but they do not exhibit any kind of dwarfism or miniaturisation; they often weigh around 180 kilograms (400 lb).
   The comparative rarity of tigons is attributed to male tigers’ finding the courtship behaviour of a lioness too subtle and thus may miss behavioural cues that signal her willingness to mate. However, lionesses actively solicit mating, so the current rarity of tigons is most likely due to their being less impressive in size than ligers, with a corresponding lesser novelty value. A century ago, tigons were evidently more common than ligers. Gerald Iles, in At Home In The Zoo (1961) was able to obtain three tigons for Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, but wrote that he had never seen a liger. A number of tigons are currently being bred in China.