What is Liger?

When a male lion with a female tiger is a hybrid offspring of a couple known as liger . Although lions and tigers rarely, if at all, friends in the wild, such meetings sometimes happened in captivity. The first liger chicks known to exist in 1823 in England; The parents of the pups shared the day at the exhibition and often joined. Today, the breed can be found in many zoo and animal shrine around the world.

Liger is generally larger than the lion or tiger; In some cases it may be twice as big as a lion. Liger is the largest of any cat breed and has a unique coat that is as golden as a lion, but striped, like a tiger. While the male animal is known to be sterile, women are able to reproduce with lions or tigers.

Tippi Hedren, a former actress, now runs an animal shrine where Liger is maintained. He claims that Liger has inherited the best attributes of lions and tigers. Like Tigers, Liger likes immersion in water; Like lions, they are very social animals. Accredited zoologicalThe zoological zoos zoological zoos do not approve of the breeding of lions and tigers together, although several random descendants were born in zoos around the world. Ligers tend to have health problems; Of the 24 pups born in Wildlife, three have neurological problems.

Liger became a reference to the popular culture in 2004, when the title character in the film Napoleon Dynamite called Liger his favorite animal. Since then, many people have gone to the zoo and the shrine of animals around the world to see first -hand Liger. The Australian Canberra Zoo had for several years on the Liger display, but the animal died in 2006.Kalifornia and Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary in South Dakota.

descendants can also result from a female lion and a male tiger; This cross breed is known as Tigon and is significantly MenShort than Liger.