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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Daniel wrote: #

Ninnay wrote: #
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!

they only seem friendly because they have been hand reared. Try go pet one in the wild see what will happen lol :)

Yea, if there in the wild they can be quite hard to handle!!!

hollie at at 12:40PM, Apr 5th 2011.

pizzzza

joe at at 07:37AM, Feb 16th 2011.

Ninnay wrote: #
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!

they only seem friendly because they have been hand reared. Try go pet one in the wild see what will happen lol :)

Daniel at at 01:51PM, Feb 4th 2011.

they are so tight i love those animals

tdizzy123 at at 11:24AM, Jan 27th 2011.

In the comments I have seen a lot of misconceptions about ligers. For example ligers can not reproduce. Female ligers have reproduced already to give birth to ti Liger, or li-ligers. The male ligers have a testosterone level satisfactory for mating with females, however, none of the male ligers have reproduced yet. Ligers live as long as lions and tigers. Shasta the liger lived for more than 24 years. This age is sufficient enough.

ligerworld.com at at 03:32AM, Nov 28th 2010.

cameron wrote: #

Morgan wrote: #
I'm using this site for my research project;-)
me to im doing ligars

Thanks to this site, i got an "A."

morgan at at 08:11PM, Oct 18th 2010.

Morgan wrote: #
I'm using this site for my research project;-)

me to im doing ligars

cameron at at 03:11PM, Oct 13th 2010.

Cliff SuperBoy Lloyd wrote: #
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

Lions and tigers can breed because they are still from the same species and have enough DNA in common to be able to mate successfully, ligers cant mate because since tigers and lions are different enough that if they mate together there offspring will most likely be infertile

Bluey111 at at 08:38AM, Sep 30th 2010.

Argh. It pisses me off that little children and things cannot spell correctly. Haha Nooo :D i 15 fer god sakes xD NO BEIN A GROWN UP YET ;D

Cayla. at at 10:32AM, Sep 20th 2010.

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 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 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 at 01:21AM, May 11th 2010.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wow , very interesting . Thanks a lot

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

Very interesting new thanking u.

koteswara rao at 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 at 08:21AM, Aug 19th 2009.