INTERESTING FACT

Lion And Tiger = Liger

What happens when a male lion and a female tiger breed? A Liger - the largest of all felines. A liger looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes and some male ligers grow sparse manes. These massive creatures are 10 feet long on average and weigh about 700 lb (320kg). Liger love swimming - trait common to tigers but lacking in lions. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II. The largest liger alive today is appropriately named Hercules and lives in Jungle Island in Miami.

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One time there was this dude, he was old time plains indian, Native American. He was on a buffalo hunt and shot a buffalo. When he went up to skin and pack the meat, he began to cut it open at it's stomach. When he did an old withered lady was inside it. And she was.............. ALIVE!
BANG!

So next time you wanna get a drink of OJ in the middle of the night you better put on those tube socks.

Does anyone know off the top the details of why they can't mate and continue their species Line? I'm curious why a lion and tiger can have a kid together but, that their offspring is unable to breed with a like family's offspring. specifically

Cliff SuperBoy Lloyd at 10:59PM, Jun 13th 2010.

Whoa... That thing is so F@%king weird. I'm only wondering one thing-- How did the tiger and lion mate without trying to kill each other? Were they sedated?

M-nay at 11:38AM, May 11th 2010.

Wow. Those animals are just so cute! They seem really friendly too. Wish there was a way you could get up close and pat them!

Ninnay at 01:21AM, May 11th 2010.

I'm using this site for my research project;-)

Morgan at 10:12AM, Apr 29th 2010.

Hector wrote: #
looking at your post i see that there is mostly kids commenting on this site and the whole liger thing. yall are idots learn how to spell really OMG that is such a stupid thing that you all cant do that. OMFG GROW UP!!!k

Nice grammar.

Paris at 01:24PM, Apr 26th 2010.

Only 3 people in my class beleave Ligers are real, this should make the others beleave. ;)

nobody at 09:45PM, Apr 20th 2010.

hector misspelled ****s i think he's a moron !!!

mclovin at 09:09AM, Apr 6th 2010.

thats wierd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chasity at 12:40PM, Mar 23rd 2010.

Hector spelled **** wrong?......bah hahahahahaha btw kids love to learn; Hector, pay attention.

dianna at 03:53AM, Mar 9th 2010.

Wow , very interesting . Thanks a lot

Lovenya at 05:14PM, Mar 5th 2010.

theres been a legend going around saying that random liger killings are going around its prob napolean dynomite

noway at 03:52AM, Feb 16th 2010.

Very interesting new thanking u.

koteswara rao at 02:31AM, Aug 25th 2009.

Unfortunately though Ligers cannot produce offspring of their own, and therefore cannot progress as an individual species, Unless of course a further mutation happens which allows them to reproduce.

Ciaran at 08:21AM, Aug 19th 2009.

this is cool

chales at 08:35PM, Aug 18th 2009.

Ha ha! I thought they only existed on Napoleon Dynamite, but this world keeps shootin' out more species.

Anna at 02:49PM, Aug 3rd 2009.

wow amazing, lions n tigers n bears OhMy

jim at 01:49AM, Jul 31st 2009.

WHAT?! REALLY??!!

ran10 at 04:50AM, Jul 8th 2009.

Mixing lions and tigers is something completely unnatural that humans invented, many ligers and tigons have terrible genetic disorders and disabilities, they usually live hard, short lives.

Its really very sad and not cool or cute.

Kay at 05:31PM, Jul 5th 2009.

animals are really interesting

mehgan at 09:12PM, Jun 29th 2009.

they said it can reach 700lbs? is that on the dairy queen diet? reading the article i was thinking of something better than both species (lion and tiger) but that thing is just a fat S@%T...
are they sterile afterwards?

Jaymoney at 02:44PM, Jun 25th 2009.

theyre friggen hugeee !

Me at 12:50PM, Jun 13th 2009.

i think they are very scary

Alice at 11:56AM, Jun 2nd 2009.

omg there huge and scary

Georgina at 05:38AM, Jun 1st 2009.

looking at your post i see that there is mostly kids commenting on this site and the whole liger thing. yall are idots learn how to spell really OMG that is such a stupid thing that you all cant do that. OMFG GROW UP!!!k

Hector at 11:50AM, Apr 24th 2009.

Well,they could have named it Tilon as in Kung Fu Panda...

MD. MANJURUL ISLAM at 06:27AM, Apr 22nd 2009.

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