If you've spent any time researching big cats, you've likely come across the hybrids ligers and tigons, but what exactly sets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Napoleon Dynamite would be so relieved. The massive feline on the loose in the Simi Valley veld was not a liger. It was a tiger, now a very dead tiger. The mystery ended Wednesday morning ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...