Move over mules, there are much more interesting characters in the mixed animal game. Ligers and Tigons (and Jaguleps and Leopons) Remember Napoleon Dynamite from a few years ago? Deb: What are ...

A cross between a male African lion and a female tiger, called a liger, is seen at Taman Safari in West Java, Indonesia. Both pairings are extremely unlikely to happen in the wild because lion and ...

Two "liger" cubs — the offspring of a Bengal tiger mother, Beauty, and African lion father, Simba — were born at a private Taiwan zoo last week. (See a liger.) Intentionally crossbreeding the ...

In January 2017, a Russian zoo made the headlines with the birth of a liger cub named Tzar – a cute hybrid cat born to a female tiger and a male lion. The excitement generated by the news ...

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

The offspring look different, depending on who the mother is. A male lion and a female tiger produce a liger – the biggest of the big cats. A male tiger and a female lion produce a tigon, a cat that ...

The offspring look different, depending on who the mother is. A male lion and a female tiger produce a liger – the biggest of the big cats. A male tiger and a female lion produce a tigon, a cat that ...

He said, “Papa, ligers are real and tigons are real.” Sometimes when children are excited, their phone voices don’t come across very clearly and it took me several times to understand what ...

Apparently the Amman Zoo hopes that their tiger and lion will mate. Eep. Their baby would be a liger. According to the Sierra Safari: A liger is the result of breeding a male lion with a female tiger.

Ligers are the offspring of a male lion mating with a tigress, and they are known to be enormous (see picture) and tremendously fierce. It’s unclear why combining male lion DNA with female tiger ...

The creation of hybrid big cats like ligers raises serious ethical questions. Experts weigh in on the potential dangers and the allure of these magnificent creatures. Dive into the debate!