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What do you think about hybridized animals such as “ligers”?
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I went to a state fair last summer and there was this traveling zoo, and they had 2 baby LIGER cubs. the little cubs were a tannish-gold color with light brown stripes. their mother was a tiger and their father was a lion. the parents came from a zoo and the zoo keepers put the lion’s genes into the tiger’s genes themselves and out came 2 ligers. i thought it was pretty cool but when i told someone about it they were disgusted by the idea. what do you think about this?
What Is Tigon Relationship To Information Security ?
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which to relate the animal to security .
When The Colts Beat The Jaguars On Thursday, I Know They Clinched A Wild-card Spot, But Did They Also Clinch..?
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5th seed? Or can they still drop to 6th seed?
I Need Liger Info And Pictures??
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is there a whole site dedicated to ligers and tions?? im FASCINATED by these animals…especially the liger.
Which animal would win this confrontation?
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If a lion and a tiger mated and had a liger, and then a gorilla and a shark mated to make a land-dwelling sharilla, and the two animals met in a battle as king of the jungle, which would win? What if a mountain goat and an octapus mated to make a mountain octoat and it came into the battle as a third wheel?
Hurry please, I need to know!
Do Ligers Really Exist?
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I looked it up on Google Images and they look like giant lions with tiger faces and light stripes. Are they real?
Do You Think Ligers Are Real?
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ligers, there pretty much my favorite animals, bred for there skills in magic
Do Tigers (or Ligers Or Tigons Lol) Cough Furballs?
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Seriously, anyone witnessed this at a zoo or?
Just wonder about these thing’s.
How Much Would They Be?
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I have always wanted a TIGON as a pet and I know I would need a special licences to get one and I would ned money to buy a TIGON as well
So how much would the
TIGON
and
licenses
be and if you dont know were could I find out?
Who Much Slep Do Ligers Get?
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well lions sleep 18-20 hours a day and tigers sleep up to 18 hours a day… probaby like 17 hours
what is the name of the wild aggressive cat?
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i dont mean the lion or tiger or liger.. etc
i mean the cat which is slightly bigger than cats and has large pointy ears and aggressive attitude and eats animal meat
Anyone Out There Own, Or Know About A “tigons & Ligers” Saddle ?
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Ran into a few of them on Ebay, found their website. They look decent, but hard to tell from pictures. Anyone know anything about them ? Owned or used one ?
Why Are Ligers Bigger Than Tigons?
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The large size of the liger and small size of the tigon is due to “genomic imprinting” – the unequal expression of genes depending on parent of origin i.e. whether certain growth genes are inherited from the male or the female. This is linked to the species’ lifestyle and breeding strategy – whether the female mates with only one male while in heat (non-competitive) or whether she mates with many males (competitive). This results in “growth dysplasia”. The following explanation is greatly simplified as a number of other genes are contributed unequally by the male and female parents and also affect the general health and longevity of the offspring. Lions live in prides led by several adult males. The lionesses mate with each of those males. Each male wants his offspring to be the ones to survive, but the female’s genes want multiple offspring to survive. The father’s genes promote size of the offspring to ensure that his offspring out-compete any other offspring in the womb at the same time. Genes from the female inhibit growth to ensure that as many offspring as possible survive and that they all have an equal chance. By contrast, tigers are largely solitary and a female on heat normally only mates with one male. There is no competition for space in the womb so the male tiger’s genes do not need to promote larger offspring. There is therefore no need for the female to compensate, so the offspring’s growth goes uninhibited.
When a male tiger mates with a lioness, his genes are not promoting large growth of the offspring because he is adapted to a non-competitive breeding strategy. However, the lioness is adapted to a competitive strategy and her genes inhibit the growth of the offspring. This uneven match means that the offspring (tigons) are often smaller and less robust than either parent.
When a male lion mates with a tigress, his genes promote large offspring because lions are adapted to a competitive breeding strategy. The tigress does not inhibit the growth because she is adapted to a non-competitive strategy. Therefore the offspring (liger) grows larger and stronger than either parent because the effects do not cancel each other out. Ligers take several years to reach full adult size, but it is a myth that ligers never stop growing.
Growth dysplasia has other effects: the size of the placenta may be affected (causing miscarriage), the embryo may be aborted at an early stage due to abnormal growth, the cub may be stillborn or may only survive a few days. In some rodents, mating Species A males with Species B females produces offspring half normal size, but mating Species B males with Species A females cause the offspring to be aborted as they try to grow to several times the normal size.
Because of the impossibility of a gene being inherited from only females, there is a competing hypothesis. This hypothesis (allthough not tested) is that the Lion’s sperm is damaged somehow during fertilization and that a growth inhibiting gene is typically destroyed. It is impossible for a gene carried on a chromosomes to be passed along only from the mother. The reason for this is there are no chromosomes that only a female can have. Female Tigons and Female Ligers both possess a tiger X chromosme and a lion X chromosome, yet only the female Ligers will grow large, this means something must happen to either alter the genes or that the cause of the growth dysplasia lies at least partially outside of the genes.
Another possible hypothesis is that the growth dysplasia results from the interaction between lion genes and tiger womb enviroment. The tiger produces a hormone that sets the fetal Liger on a pattern of growth that does not end throughout his life. The hormonal hypothesis is that the cause of the male Liger’s growth is his sterility – essentially, the male liger remains in the pre-pubertal growth phase. This is not upheld by behavioural evidence – despite being sterile, many male ligers become sexually mature and mate with females. In addition, female ligers also attain great size but are fertile.
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Where Can I Get A Liger Stuffed Animal?
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I really wanted to get one for my boyfriend for Christmas..but I’ve searched and searched online and I don’t think Liger stuffed animals exist because I have had no luck in finding anything. =(
Where Can We See Ligers In Thailand?
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we’re going to thailand and we’re going to see tigers at the tiger temple. we were hoping to see a liger as well. does anyone know of a place to go?
Are Ligers Real…or Are They A Hollywood Creation?
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ligers are half lion and half tiger that are artificially inseminated
Are Ligers Genetic Manipulation?
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no, they’re breed from a lion and a tiger. here’s a video.http://www.metacafe.com/watch/250400/lig…
how do you explain a liger part 2?
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1st i asked why human races arent considered different species because every race is physically different (ie: skin and hair types, immunities, black people dominating sports)and someone said its because we can still interbreed. so i asked how a lion and tiger can breed but at the same time are different species. people responded that tigers and lions dont breed naturally because they are from different continents. But check out what i found from wikipedia:
“Another area where the ranges of Asiatic Lions and Bengal Tigers overlap is in the Gir Forest in India; however, this combination of species in the wild is considered highly unlikely.”
This implies thatt intances where ligers apeared naturally have occured. Yet theres no way a lion and tiger will ever be the same species. So this scratches out the possibility that human races are 1 species because we can interbreed.Plus, different races wouldnt interbreed if we didnt have transportation like airplanes or ships. im so confused
Zoo Tycoon Snow Leopard Help?
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please help! i have zoo tycoon 1, and the zookeepers say my 2 snow leopards are in a suitable environment, but the leopards unhappy/angry!!! what do i do?
What Do You Expect Out Of The Upcoming Jushin Liger Vs. Davey Richards Match?
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Jushin Liger is returning to ROH for one night on January 30th 20l0. His opponent for that date was revealed yesterday and it’s Davey Richards. How good do you expect this match to be?
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