Imagine this thing sneaking into you campsite!

I believe that I saw the same show. I was quite impressed.

 

all i have to say is, wow

 

Bred for it's skill and magic

 

It's so cute, I want one.

 

I have two cats and I really don't think that I would want one that big.

 

holy crap

 

i remember seeing those creatures at the canberra zoo..

the plaque said that they no longer bred them because they didn't believe in genitically modifying creatures.. or something.. i don't really remember.

but i do remember thinking that whatever they were doing was quite disturbing.

 

Ligers kick a$$!

I was watching a show on Discovery tonight called "Living With Tigers". It was about an effort to train a pair of zoo born tigers to live and hunt in the wild. It had some of the most incredible wildlife photogrophy I've ever seen! Tigers are truly amazing creatures.

 

Wow, what an impressive beast!!!

 

"We're going to need a bigger boat..."

 

A liger is specifically a cross between a male lion and a female tiger. Cross a female lion with a male tiger and you get a tigon, which is smaller than a liger.

The cat on the right is a female tigon...


Of course, as everyone "knows", hybrids are sterile. So that tigon was housed with a male tiger. Received wisdom being what it is, the cat on the left in the above photo is the tigon's cub, a ti-tigon.

 

Check it out... a leopon...

 

Sadly I can't find a photo of this beast...

The male litigon (a hybrid of an Indian lion and a tigon - itself the offspring of tiger and a lioness)-named Cubanacan at Alipur Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, India was believed to weigh at least 363 kg 800 lb. This unique animal stood 1.32 m 52 in at the shoulder and measured a record 3.5 m 11½ ft in total length. He died on 12 April, 1991.

 

I first heard about ligers from a friend when we had a gig at a bar. I thought he was full of ****ake because he had a few beers at the time (big beerstein glasses). I was just blowing him off when he was talking about this lions that were "as big as this wall". My response was "Okay Napoleon!" Then a couple quarters later I took anthropology and the book had a picture of ligers and tigons.