when did a liger become discoverd ?

Question

i don't know if it was just discoverd or it been this way !!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

i don't think it was "discovered" but rather created....they were bred that way...

Answer 2

i've known about it for about 10 years, so probably a little earlier than that. i went to the zoo and they had one. they're cool arent they? its a mix of a lion and tiger.

The liger is a cross (a hybrid) between a male lion and a female tiger. It is therefore a member of genus Panthera. It has also been known as a lion-tiger mule. A liger looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Some male ligers grow sparse manes. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming.

A cross between a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon. According to The Tiger, Symbol of Freedom rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild. [1]

A. A. Milne wrote in The London Magazine, "Under exceptional circumstances it has been known for a tiger to be forced into ranges inhabited by the Asian lion, Panthera leo persica, which is the same genus as the tiger. Rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild and producing offspring known as ligers. When a tiger and a lioness mate the cub is called a tigon.'" [2] This would have referred to the Gir Forest in India where the ranges of Asiatic Lions and Bengal Tigers overlap.

Long ago, outside the old city of Singapore, which was considered to be the city of Lions, there was reported to be giant brown beasts. This was before the Asiatic lion was reduced to such low numbers that their are now less than 200 left in the Gir forest. This huge animal might just be an explanation for this myth, for he is neither a lion nor a tiger, but he is about the size of both of them combined. The liger is the world's largest big cat. An average male liger weighs over 900 pounds and standing almost 12 feet tall.

The reason that they are called a liger is because the father was a lion and the mother was a tiger. If the situation was reversed and the mother was a lion and the father was a tiger, he would be called a tigon, and would be a dwarf instead of a giant. A fully grown tigon is usually less that 350lbs. Ligers are not sterile, and they can reproduce. If a liger were to reproduce with a tiger, it would be called a titi, and if it were to reproduce with a lion, it would be call a lili.

Answer 3

Although their history probably goes much further back, they were "discovered" in the English world in 1824. From Wikipedia:

"Cuvier reported a litter of three lion-tiger "mules" born in October 1824 in England to an African lion and an Asiatic tigress owned by an itinerant exhibitor and animal dealer. "

Check the link below for full details about ligers -- tigons, which is the opposite!

"The liger is a cross (a hybrid) between a male lion and a female tiger. It is therefore a member of genus Panthera. It has also been known as a lion-tiger mule. A liger looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Some male ligers grow sparse manes. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming. A cross between a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon."

Answer 4

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