Survey: Do You Believe A Ligers And Tigons Are A Sin Against Nature?
Liger = Male lion; Female tiger
Tigon = Lioness; Male tiger
personally, I think it’s not a sin, but lions and tigers should not mix. I believe nature knows this as 99% of them are born sterile and they have only be produced in captivity.
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They are bred for entertainment. If nature knew what was good for it then it shouls have made 50% of humans strile too.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean by ‘a sin against nature’. Certainly respectable zoos frown on the breeding of hybrids such as ligers and tigons, as they have no value from a conservation point of view and are taking up space and resources that could be used to breed endangered species. They are basically freaks bred by unscrupulous zoos in order to make money out of people willing to pay to see them. Today, there is very little chance of them occurring in the wild – tigers are found only in Asia, lions in Africa and the Gir Forest of India, where there are no tigers. Historically, the Asiatic subspecies of lion had a much greater range which overlapped with that of the tiger, so it is possible, though unlikely, that they may once have sometimes occurred in the wild.
Whilst ligers and tigons are usually sterile, like most hybrids, occasionally a female will be fertile and can be bred back to a male lion or tiger, producing:
Lion + liger = li-liger
Lion + tigon = li-tigon
Tiger + liger = ti-liger
Tiger + tigon = ti-tigon
Kamikaze Watermelon – interspecies breeding is NOT impossible. If two species are closely related enough, they can interbreed. Ligers and tigons are proof of that. Or do you think lions and tigers are the same species?
They are not a sin because some of them come by accident, and they are good examples of hybridization that produces stronger offspring though slightly mentally imbalanced, and with many problems.
It has so many research opportunities, but I think it’s wrong in that you are making a confused animal that wants to be both a lion and a tiger, living in groups and alone, hating and loving water.
Hard topic to think about
Are mules a sin against nature?
They are a cross between a horse and a donkey, and also are sterile.
We humans have been cross-breeding and producing these animals for centuries.
Dogs and cats are cross-bred.
Human beings mix their races. I generally only date Asian girls, and have a half-Canadian, half-Flip son, with my ex-wife. He probably isn’t sterile, though.
Cross-breeding is natural, to create new species. Not everything in evolution is due to genetic mutations.
As you said, 99% of these crossbreeds are sterile. What of that other 1%? A new species has been created.
Darwin would be proud.
Your professor is a religious nut, isn’t he….?
Well your professor meant that it’s against the Laws of Nature.It’s not natural.Actually when you think about it,it’s quite cruel.Imagine being a cross-breed of some different species and that your just like a experiment or something.Either way the merits of twiddling the genetics and stuff is that we might find out new medicine and stuff but the demerits is the cruelty…Though seriously…their genetic structure is like nothing of ours…I wonder why their doing it.For greedy Zoos perhaps?
Technically interspecial breeding is impossible, seeing as the DNA in the sperm won’t fertilize an egg from the member of another species. For example if a human tried to have sex with a monkey the sperm could get through, however some of the DNA patterns will rebound from the egg as they are different and it won’t be fertilized.
However once again, my avatar defies every law of physics and biology.
My God! Lions and tigers living together, making babies… Probably not even married!
No, I do not think it is a sin, many animals cross breed. Many of the offspring are sterile as a result though. Cross breeding is the oldest form of genetic manipulation on earth.
100% are born sterile, tigons and ligers cannot reproduce, and neither can mules and zonkeys and all that stuff.
It’s not a sin against nature. Why not? Simple: Because nature allows them to be born.
I agree. I don’t think it’s a sin, but I don’t see the point. What’s wrong with a lion, just as it is, or a tiger the way God made it? I don’t understand what purpose is served here.
How can there be a “sin against nature”? That aside, though, people have been breeding all kinds of things together for a very long time. Are mules “sins against nature”?
I thought this read “LIARS AND PAGANS” and I was going to say no, I think they both are naturally on this earth….
SILLY EYES PLAYING TRICKS ON ME AGAIN!
Kyles And Not his stalkers Are A Sin Against Nature
what the hell is a “sin of nature”?
i thinks its awsome, just like the bannanas at the store WAY BIGGER than the organic ones, so what if organic ones were first, every supermarket has genetically altered food, and we sop there because we like the big bannanas, and the big oranges and seedless grapes and all the other stuff we like, ligers and tigons are like that, cool new breads that show amazing potential, and yeah even the organic lions and tigers are borderline extinct and will not last another three hundred years and these new genetic beast would survive either due to lack of food, lack of fertility and lack of stealth where would the monster hide? either way i think they’re f#ckin rad as hell……