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I guess her hubby was another cowardly lion, huh?
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1536370.html
Tiger pictured mating lioness
A Chinese zoologist has captured a picture of a tiger mating with a lioness.
Zhao Yunhua took the rare photograph in Shenzhen Safari Park last weekend.
It's not unusual for tigers and lions to breed in safari parks - but it is seldom caught on film.
This year, two tigons - the product of a male tiger and a lioness - and three ligers - the cub of a male lion and female tiger - have been born in the park.
The five offspring are all growing up healthily, reports Shenzhen Evening Post.
I guess her hubby was another cowardly lion, huh?
"Look at that , flaunting it right in front of us like this." "I always knew she was trash, hmmph."
these are two of the most dangerous animals on the planet.....one fatal move and they can claw you to death instantaniously...im going to ask if i can join in.......your alright, your alright there mate...
It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
Oh yeah, once you go orange and black you never go back, baby.
"tigons"
... sounds like something from Startrek.
"Force fields up, give me everything you've got, Sdotty! The evil Tigons are attacking"
I don't think that's "cat ownage" ... that's "cats gettin' some".
Striped, for her pleasure.
The kittens are called Ligers right?
so lets say that you are 1/2 tiger and 1/2 lion......
if your daddy is the tiger then your a tigon and if your mommy is the tiger then your a liger.....
wtf is the difference??
Last edited by ObiwanGinobili; 09-14-2005 at 10:43 AM.
Tuckin Figers
Look at the one in the background...
jeolous are we, or maybe he is watching his wife
get nailed by a tiger.
I seen a picture of a liger in a zoo...damn that thing is huge!! There's no way it would ever be able to hunt in the wild, because it's so fat.
I'm sure they'd look different because as far a lions go, the males are the only ones that have that big mane around their heads....but I guess it'd only make a difference if it were a male cub came out the same way.
I'm just guessing...I'm not a pro at cross-breeding anything.
Those are females in the background.
Look at the one in the background...
jeolous are we, or maybe he is watching his wife
get nailed by a tiger.
"Suck on this, Simba. Lion King, my ass."
Last edited by Jimcs50; 09-14-2005 at 11:43 AM.
There actually is a significant genetic difference. One of them (can't remember which) is a gigantic animal. I also don't remember if the offspring can breed.
Like a Mule, Shoog?
From Wikipedia
TIGON
A tigon is the artificially bred hybrid of a male tiger and a female lion. The tigon is not as common as the converse hybrid, the liger. Tigons presumably do not occur naturally in the wild, as the lion and tiger have very different behaviours and habitats.
Tigons can exhibit characteristics of both parents: they can have both spots from the mother and stripes from the father. Any mane that a male tigon may have will appear shorter and less noticeable than a lion's mane. Tigons grow smaller than lions or tigers, due to the fact that they inherit growth-inhibitory genes from both parents; they often weigh around 150 kilograms (350 lb). They appear "housecat-like".
Most tigons are sterile, but a tigon named Noelle in the Shambala Reserve mated with a tiger to produce a "ti-tigon".LIGER
The liger is a cross (a hybrid) between a male lion and a female tiger. It is therefore a member of genus Panthera. It looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Like tigers (and unlike lions), ligers like swimming.
A cross between a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.
Known ligers exist due to human influence, either by deliberate human intervention, or by humans putting lions and tigers in enclosed spaces together. In natural conditions tigers and lions generally do not inhabit the same territory - the two species coexist in the wild today only in the Gir forest. There have been no confirmed reports of natural interbreeding, though there are long-standing claims that this has happened.
Ligers grow much larger than tigers or lions and it is believed this is because female lions transmit a growth-inhibiting gene to their descendants to balance the growth-promoting gene transmitted by male lions (this gene is due to compe ive mating strategies in lions). A male lion needs to be large to successfully defend the pride from other roaming male lions and pass on his genes; also, in prides with multiple male adult lions, a male's cubs need to be bigger than the competing males for the best survival chance. Thus, his genes favor larger offspring. A lioness, however, will have up to 5 cubs, and a cub is typically one of many being cared for in a pride with many other lions. As such, it has a relatively high survival rate, and need not be huge as it will not need to look after itself very quickly. Smaller cubs are more easily cared for and fed, are less strain on the pride and hence the inhibiting gene developed.
Male tigers do not compete for status and mates in the way lions do; a tigress only mates with one tiger when in season, so a tiger does not have the same genetic predisposition to produce large competing offspring. Also, a tigress typically has fewer cubs, and those have a much lower survival rate due to the tiger's solitary nature, so being large and growing quickly are an advantage; there is no need for a growth inhibitor. Being the offspring of a male lion and female tiger, the liger inherits the growth-promoting gene unfetered by a growth-inhibiting gene and typically grows larger than either animal; this is called growth dysplasia. Some male ligers grow sparse manes.
Because of the impossibility of a gene being inherited from only females, there is a competing hypothesis. This hypothesis (allthough not tested) is that the Lion's sperm is damaged somehow during fertilization and that a growth inhibiting gene is typically destroyed. It is impossible for a gene carried on a chromosomes to be passed along only from the mother. The reason for this is there are no chromosomes that only a female can have. Female Tigons and Female Ligers both posess a tiger X chromosme and a lion X chromosome, yet only the female Ligers will grow large, this means something must happen to either alter the genes or that the cause of the growth dysplasia lies at least partially outside of the genes.
Another possible hypothesis would be that the growth dysplasia is the result of an interaction between lion genes and tiger womb enviroment. The tiger produces a hormone that sets the fetal Liger on a pattern of growth that does not end throughout his life. A hypothesis which does not involve the genes at all would be that the cause of the Liger's growth is a result of its sterility. Sterile Ligers, it has been said, grew to enormous size. If the cause of Liger sterility is that they never reach puberty, then possibly this is the cause. Somehow the Liger's body is stuck in a growth phase (like being 10 years old forever.)
The liger featured in the photograph is named Hobbs and lives at Sierra Safari Zoo, Reno, Nevada, USA. He is the offspring of an African lion and a Bengal tigress. According to the zoo, "He roars like a lion and swims like a tiger. He's definitely all cat. He likes to play, and for all his incredible bulk he moves just as silently as any other cat". He is estimated to weigh about 450 kilograms (approximately 1000 pounds), about twice the average for male Siberian tigers, the largest non-extinct, naturally-occurring member of family Felidae.
Known male ligers have all been sterile. Female ligers are often fertile and can be mated to a tiger resulting in ti-liger offspring or to a lion resulting in li-liger offspring.
There is a four-year-old liger on display at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.
Maybe it's just 'cause I'm old, but I'm suprised nobody has used the old "put a tiger in your tank" line yet . . .
Put a tiger in your , you mean.
You do realize males have manes?Look at the one in the background...
jeolous are we, or maybe he is watching his wife
get nailed by a tiger.
getting any ideas cherry?
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