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Information on Ligers and Tigons
The liger is a cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This combination produces an offspring with more lionistic features than if the reverse pairing had occured. That would produce a more tigeristic creature known as a tigon. Both are members of genus Panthera.There is no scientific name assigned to [...]
The history of these hybrids has been very carefully worked out by Professor Valentine Bail, Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, from whose papers the following account is taken. The parents of these hybrids were in a travelling menagerie owned at first by Mr. Thomas Atkins, and subsequently by his son Mr. John [...]
The large size of the liger and small size of the tigon is due to “genomic imprinting” - the unequal expression of genes depending on parent of origin i.e. whether certain growth genes are inherited from the male or the female. This is linked to the species’ lifestyle and breeding strategy - whether the female [...]
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Historical accounts of ligers and tigons (chronological order): CJ Cornish et al (undated), R De Davison (1863), K Ackermann (1898), A Rörig (1903), Deutshe Landwirtshaftliche Presse (1904), Boettger (1906), T Noack (1908), A Sokolowsky (1909), H Przibram (1910), SS Flower (1929), L Reisinger (1929), Sir PC Mitchell (1930), H Heck (1932), RI Pocock [...]
Here’s a chart showing the results of breeding different cats and what is produced: Father Mother Results Lion Tiger Liger Tiger Lion Tigon Lion Liger Li-liger Lion Tigon Li-tigon Tiger Liger Ti-liger Tiger Tigon Ti-tigon Share This
another liger photo from alismith44 @ flickr Share This
I decided to add a liger discussion area to the site and hope that everyone will say a few words about their favorite animal - THE LIGER. You can also make comments to all the posts on the site. It’s nice to hear what other people thing about the topics and photos that go with them. LINK [...]
Here are some awesome liger pictures from a news article out of China. Take a look at those cute baby ligers! The shot below is my favorite - looks like one big happy family. Peoples Daily Online Quadruplet liger cubs play with their lion father and tiger mother at Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in suburb of Haikou city, capital of [...]
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