2007-08-19 20:54:55 · 12 answers · asked by leeds_army 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
A male African lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris) can mate to produce a liger. The reverse cross produces a tigon. Such crossing does not normally happen in the wild because most lions live in Africa and most tigers live in Asia. Also, lions and tigers just don’t mix; they are enemies in the wild.
Lions and tigers belong to the same genus, Panthera, along with the jaguar, leopard and snow leopard, in the subfamily Felinae. This subfamily also contains the genus Felis, which includes the mountain lion and numerous species of smaller cats, including the domestic cat. The cheetah, genus Acinonyx, belongs to a different subfamily.6 Thus the genera Panthera, Felis and Acinonyx may represent descendants of three original created cat kinds, or maybe two: Panthera-Felis and Acinonyx, or even one cat kind.
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2007-08-20 10:02:15 · answer #1 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, a ligr is the cross between a lion and a tiger. Because the lion and tiger are not usually meant to mate, a liger is born sterile, meaning it can't reproduce (like the mule, the ross between a donkey and a horse). Tigers have stripes, and lion's dont, which I guess is the best way I can explain the distinction between those two.
2007-08-19 21:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by MsAnimanga 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Liger is a hybrid bred with a male lion to female tiger, a lion is a purebred as is a tiger. If the hybrid was bred using a male tiger to female lion mating the resulting hybrid would actually be called a Tigion!!
2007-08-19 21:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by kathy w 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A liger is the result of the mating of a lion and a tiger.
A lion has no stripes and a tiger has stripes.
The question of whether or not these are two independent species is tricky. I would say they are but many believe that because they can still mate they belong to the same species
2007-08-19 21:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by deburca98 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera leo.
A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
2007-08-19 21:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by sanntovaz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lions and Tigers are separate species of great cats (tigers are the stripey ones), they are however genetically able to mate if you get a male lion and a female tiger you get a liger, otherway round you get a tigon {I think}.
2007-08-19 21:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by Pat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
liger is a lion and tiger cross
lion is a lion
tiger is a tiger
all 3 are better looking than the faces you see in the merrion centre lol
2007-08-19 20:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lions and tigers can, and do interbreed, thanks to the proximity allowed by zoos that bring two species together that would never meet in the wild. Welcome the Liger. If you type into Yahoo search box the phrase "Liger photo" you get that.
2007-08-19 21:01:32 · answer #8 · answered by mike453683 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I seriously thought a Liger was just something made up from Napoleon Dynamite.
2007-08-19 21:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by BadWolf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-04-01 08:21:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋