The liger is the offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris). There is another type of lion-tiger hybrid called a tigon, which results from the breeding of a male ...

Ligers, tigons, and bears ... In addition, some breeders purposely place the animals together in the hopes of creating hybrid ...

Her favorite animal is a shark. For some reason, she is frenziedly smitten with the bespectacled, mulleted Jarrod (Jemaine Clement, of HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords”), a daft electronics store clerk ...

The liger is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger (tigress). Ligers are the largest known cats in the world ...

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 ...

Therefore, ligers are typically bred in captivity and exist at a zoo or animal sanctuary. The first breeding between a male lion and female tiger to create a liger is believed to have occurred in ...