A liger being a tiger and a lion?
2006-07-14 03:15:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Yes. They used to have one in a zoo somewhere around Provo, UT.
2006-07-14 03:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by whozethere 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and there is also a tigon. A liger is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger; a tigon is a cross between a male tiger and a female lion. I am quoting the following:
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Male ligers are sterile, but female ligers are fertile and can be bred to tigers (resulting in ti-ligers) or to lions (resulting in li-ligers). Ti-ligers are more tiger-like, having a greater percentage of tiger genes. Li-ligers are more lion-like, having a greater percentage of lion genes. Neither are common. The fertility of hybrid big cat females is well documented across a number of different hybrids. This is in accordance with Haldane's rule: in hybrids of animals whose gender is determined by sex chromosomes, the heterogametic sex (the one with two different sex chromosomes e.g. X and Y) is either absent, rare or sterile.
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For complete information and pictures, here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
2006-07-14 13:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is. I just saw a show on the National Geographic Channel about them. They are the result of a male lion and a female tiger breeding and they are the even bigger than lions.
There is also something a called a tigon, which is a male tiger and a female lion.
2006-07-14 10:22:07 · answer #3 · answered by Joy22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a cross between a Tiger and a Lion. Most of the time, the resulting cub of this kind of breeding is sterile; just like the cross between a donkey and a horse: A mule.
2006-07-14 10:24:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mary Lynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I've seen one, at King Richards Fair in Carver, MA. Half lion, half tiger, no stripes, very large. Looks more like a huge female lion.
2006-07-14 10:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Pam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The liger is real baby. Here's the wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
2006-07-14 10:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by patrarno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes the mom was a lion and the dad a tiger
2006-07-14 10:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! It is cross between a lion and a tiger. They are mostly bred for their magical properties.
2006-07-14 10:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes! But it looks NOTHING like the liger off of napolion dinamite!
2006-07-14 12:55:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. It's a very rare - though real - crossbreed. I've heard that circus people did it in order to get the strange, exotic animals that people wanted to see.
2006-07-14 12:00:22 · answer #10 · answered by minerva779 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋