Comments on: Why Is A “liger” Bigger Than A “tigon” ?

By: john r

john r — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:21:42 +0000

Tigers are much larger than lions, so if the mother of liger is a tiger it will take on traits of mom.

By: P W

P W — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:02:21 +0000

Female lions have a growth inhibiting horomone. Therefore without this hormone the Liger is much larger.

By: Physics Major

Physics Major — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:21:19 +0000

cuz it ate too much dinner ,the fat lard. gosh.

By: brane_in

brane_in — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:11:19 +0000

The lion's sperm is damaged somehow during fertilization and that a growth-inhibiting gene is typically destroyed. Female tigons and female ligers both possess a tiger X chromosome and a lion X chromosome, yet only the female ligers will grow large, which suggests that either something happens to alter the genes or the cause of the growth dysplasia lies at least partially outside of genetics.