Liger Dies
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 failure and could not be saved despite correct diagnosis and care.
Breeding between lions and tigers happens only in captivity, producing offspring called ligers. There is only a handful in the world, Elsom noted. “I had never even seen a liger until I started caring for this one,”
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I don’t know about the rest of you but i find that when people start experimenting and screwing up our ecosystems it’s coming to the end of life as we know it. YOU CAN’T CROSS BREED ANIMALS THAT WEREN’T MENT TO BE CROSSED! if an animal cross breeds naturally then it’s not so bad but you can’t force an animal to become something it’s not it’s SICK and it personally makes me feel depressed and give me an extremly bleak outlook on where we’re headed in life. We’ve screwed around with life enough do you really want to start with the mutation catigory? We’re killing off so many animals that it’s said that in this mordern ara we’ll kill of an endangered species 1 every 30 minutes and what have we done about it? WE’VE EXPERIMENTED WITH THOSE ENDANGER SPEICES? ok i have to admit the ‘idea’ of a Liger seems cool but it’s unnatural and that why their deformed and why ligers aren’t fertile! have you any idea what you’re doing to these animals … you know what maybe i’ll just let you wait and see what happens when all those animals become extinct. The food chain would colaps and then WE are history. Have fun explaing that to you’re children!
Hey Lindzy -
If you didn’t notice, Hercules was not an intentional experiment - the lions and tigers were just in the same enclosure. Hercules is not deformed - except that he’s quite large. Finally, Ligers are not always infertile - third and fourth generations of cubs have been born in other zoos (Ceder Point, Ohio, 1960’s and 1970’s) - proving that tigers and lions are not as distinct as your “big cats of the world” textbook would have you believe.
So chill out.
I think it’s ok because if some animals come extinct then we still have these animals and traces of the extinct animals.So maybe in the future, if scientists have the technology to do so,if the tiger is extinct the can take a liger and use the tiger cells from the animal and imbirth the liger with the cells and the liger can give birth to a lion(that would be cloning in a more advanced way than one can already do).So, then they can imbirth more female ligers and they can all give birth to lions and lions will no longer be extinct,This may take some time to do so but if you belive you can achieve!
lindzy,
i highly disagree with you. it is ver unque that there is ligers. you should be a liger when you grow up. oh yah. hech ches, and yah u suck u no. and i have n children lindzy. think bout that loser!!!
In response to the post by lindzy. You are dumb. The only thing cross breeding and genetical engineering “screws up” is the beliefs of a few religions. None of these experements are released into the wild, and many of them could well benefit society. Several organisms that have been crossed have helped benefit deseases, and it is to my belief that in a decade or two, very advanced medicines will be made with the perfect genetics to destroy other pest organisms.
Plus, look at it this way; Ligers kick ass. It’s true. They are totally sweet. And did you know that scientists are able to place the Genetical sequence of a firefly’s ability to light up with a jelly fish. A glowing Jellyfish, how cool is that? Genetical breeding/ engineering should continue so that i can be entertained with all of these totally rad combinations. Rock on Ligers!
i like ligers!!!!
ligers are so ugly they’re cute and its not even FUNNAY!!!!!!!(that’s funny with out the a)!MK
hey this is sooooo cute!!!!!!!!! The little baby is getting a bath. ha ha he he! The little cub is adorable! The table that tells what mother and fathers a Tigon and Liger and stuff has is kinda confusing but, sooner than later, hopefully.
I love the site, but would have to agree with Lindzy 100%, Ligers and the like are very beautiful but to what end? And what the hell is the point?
I totally and fully agree! ! ! If these animals were meant to be cross bred, they would have done it naturally and on thier own. That and there’s no need for them to be cross bred. I could maybe understand if there was some need for themto be cross bred that would ultimatley benefit something, but there’s absolutely no necessity for these animals other than sheer amusement.
This just goes to show the ignorance of man kind. Who are we to fool with nature? Did you know that the white tiger didn’t occur in nature untill we started messing around with the tiger’s genes? And that the only a very small percentage of the white tigers born are kept in the zoos. the rest are uthanized for undesireable physical features because no tourist is going to want to see the retarted tigers and the mis-shapen effects of cross breeding! It’s appauling! are we now going to do the same thing here with the ligers and what not? I mean at what point did we think it was a good idea to create our own species of animals? That is a job best left for the god(s) not a job for man! And i can just imagine all the ignorant tourists that will line up at the doors of these zoos to see these atrocities of nature! And what happens to the poor kittens that don’t look quite right? do they get uthanized too like the rejected white tigers? It’s really sad the lengths man kind will go through just to make a buck. including the suffering of other animals. you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves! these creatures are not pretty because they should never have even existed in the first place! let mother nature do her job and quit meddling in her affairs, I mean…What are the people going to do if they find out they created an animal that is capeable of knocking us down from the top of the food chain? It may not be the ligers that do it…but what about our next genetic invention? or the one after that? at what point do we say enough is enough?
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article rg - Liger Pictures Liger Dies, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
The baby liger is so cute!!!!!!!
I LIKE THE LIGERS THE BEST,THEY R THE CUTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree about the experimenting, particularly with innocent animals. The fact that ligers and tigons have a shorter life span makes me sad. What is the point of these matings, except to show that it can be done?
On the other hand it is interesting that these creatures will cross-breed. You would not think they would on their own.
even if we did help it is not unatural because we did not force them to breed togather it was not something we did in a labitory we took a male lion and a female tiger put them in a cage togather and they did the rest themselves the conception, birth, and growth was all natutal. they have found wild ligers “wild” meaning that a wild male lion and a wild femal tiger mated witout any coaxing at. all completly natural.
I do agree with you. I think it is wrong to do that to poor animals, but there is nothing we can do about it. It hurts my heart to see those baby ligers and I know that they won’t live that long. I do have a question. Does the male lion eat the liger cubs, because they do that when they have lion cubs.
I’m so sorry that your Liger died and i hope there will be more Ligers in the future there will be more Ligers just like your’s.
I live in Massachusetts and go to the King Richard’s Faire (medievalfaire) every fall (almost every fall). There the T.I.G.E.R.S. (The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species) put on a tiger show and have been doing it for many years. (They come from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.)
The people at T.I.G.E.R.S. say that there is a myth about a large brown cat in some remote part of India where lions and tigers used to share the habitat. When one of their girl tigers got very friendly with one of their male lions they figured the liger might explain the legend of the large brown cat.
So maybe ligers aren’t entirely a man promoted breed. After all they are all cats. Meow!!
T.I.G.E.R, The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Miami, Florida.
I thought they were in Myrtle Beach ooops!
omg that is the cute of all cute!
wow i guess the show Zoids really dont feature fake animals the first time i herd liger i was like what??
lindzy: I think that you need to get married to get rid of your bitterness, ligers rule!!!!
lindzy, you are just jealous that you arent a liger. cuz you know theyre the best