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1. Ashi Had this To Say

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   they eat a mix of birds, cows, horses, and pigs
   A liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. Ligers look a bit like a giant lion with faint stripes – stripes that are much more faint than a tiger’s stripes.
   Note that a liger is produced only if the male lion mates with a female tiger. If a female lion mates with a male tiger, the result is a different animal – a tigon.
   Ligers are the largest cats in the world – much larger than a lion or a tiger. In fact, they can grow to the size of both parents! Their skulls can be 40% larger than a lion’s or tigers.
   Ligers are usually only bred in captivity. Lions and tigers rarely (if ever) mate in the wild. Because of this, ligers don’t have a scientific name. They do however, belong to the genus Panthera.
   Ligers were first known to exist in England back in 1823. Today, there are many ligers in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the world.
   While female ligers can reproduce, male ligers are known to be sterile. It has been said that male ligers have unstable genes and never reach puberty.

2. Ashlee M Had this To Say

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   A liger is the offspring of a male lion and female tiger – it is a hybrid which does not occur in the wild, and therefore has no ‘natural’ habitat. Its habitat is a zoo or wildlife park. The same is true of the tigon, the offspring of a male tiger and female lion. These animals are created in captivity, by housing a tiger and lion together, often from a young age, so that when the female comes into season she will mate with the male. Reputable zoos frown on breeding hybrids like this, because they have no value to conservation and are taking up space and resources that could be used to breed endangered species. They are basically freaks bred to lure gullible members of the public into paying to see them. They are fed on the same diet as captive tigers and lions – horse, beef, mutton, rabbit, chicken and so on.
   Ligers tend towards gigantism, and grow larger than either of their parents, whilst tigons tend to be smaller or at least no larger than their parents. Like most hybrids, both ligers and tigons are usually sterile, though occasionally a female will be fertile and can be bred back to a male tiger or lion, producing:
   Liger + tiger = ti-liger
   Liger + lion = li-liger
   Tigon + tiger = ti-tigon
   Tigon + lion = li-tigon

3. Leolupus Had this To Say

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   Ligers… like tigers and lions eat raw meat… usually about 20 pounds a day. This includes the liver, the bones, the organs, the muscles.. etc.
   ETA: I would think that since ligers do not occur naturally in the wild.. only in captivity, they would eat things like chicken, beef, vension, goat, rabbit, lamb.. etc. Not zebras, buffalo, or wild boars like a tiger or a lion would eat in the wild.

4. Coly Had this To Say

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   As said previously…. I doubt ligers occur in the wild, and thus have no natural habitat or natural diet. I’m sure their keepers feed them the same thing they feed their lions and tigers.

5. Rue Had this To Say

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   A lion & a tiger= Liger. Let’s see….. Both lions & tigers are carnivores (meat eaters) Both eat other animals. Look up the diet of a lion & the diet of a tiger & you’ll have what a liger would eat.