Yoo Hoo: Are Ligers Real?
yes, but realistically speaking, they shouldn’t exist. they are the product of human controlled inter-breeding between animal, or “playing god”.
as tigers mainly live in asia, and lions inhabit africa, the chances are that they will never come across each other in the wild. even if they did, they are more likely to fight than reproduce.
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Yes, they are the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion is called a tigon. Ligers tend towards gigantism and are generally larger than either of their parents, whilst tigons are generally smaller or at least no larger than their parents. Like most hybrids, both are usually sterile, but 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
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.
Liger:http://www.liger.org/images/liger-pic.jp…
Tigon:http://www.tiger-online.org/tigbib/bigca…
Yeah, Ligers are real. Ligers are offsprings of male lions and female tigers. Tigons are animals that have a tiger for a father and a lion for a mother. Ligers have a lion for a dad and a tiger for a mom. Tigons and ligers are really big, probably because they’re offsprings of the biggest cats of the big cat family.
Yes, they are a hybrid animal. It is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59B…http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/ligers.h…http://www.liger.org/http://www.myrtlebeachsafari.com/gallery…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwLmkd8f…http://videohub.ro/video/1127/Liger-on-3…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligerhttp://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/li…
the top answer is wrong a tigon is different to a liger they are usually smaller and have a differeent coat. yes ligers are real they are they largest big cats alive today you can find more about them on wikipidia on google.
Yep. Ligers can also be called tigons or tiglons. I think the first syllable depends on the paternity (whether the lion or the tiger was the father)
Yes they’re real and they’re big. But not just because they come from two big cats, but because the gene that inhibit growth in both the tiger and the lion doesn’t get passed down when they’re crossbred.
Yes