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Lion + Tiger = Liger. WOW. Must see.

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Afro Thunder

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Long ago, outside the old city of Singapore, which was considered to be the city of Lions, there was reported to be giant brown beasts. This was before the Asiatic lion was reduced to such low numbers that their are now less than 200 left in the Gir forest. This huge animal might just be an explanation for this myth, for he is neither a lion nor a tiger, but he is about the size of both of them combined. The liger is the world's largest big cat. An average male liger weighs over 900 pounds and standing almost 12 feet tall.

The reason that they are called a liger is because the father was a lion and the mother was a tiger. If the situation was reversed and the mother was a lion and the father was a tiger, he would be called a tigon, and would be a dwarf instead of a giant. A fully grown tigon is usually less that 350lbs. Ligers are not sterile, and they can reproduce. If a liger were to reproduce with a tiger, it would be called a titi, and if it were to reproduce with a lion, it would be call a lili.

Ligers are not something we planned on having. We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures. We had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl. Low and behold, she had giant brown babies, and we knew we had ourselves some ligers.

Our ligers were raised on a baby bottle, and they still enjoy getting them as treats. They are not tame from these activities, they are trained to behave. They will still bite or even kill someone given the right set of circumstances. Our liger could easily eat a hundred pound of food in a sitting but they tends to gain a little extra weight so we feed them about 25 pound of food a night. People often ask what our big cats eat. They love to eat something called, King Lion diet, which is made basically by taking a horse, a cow, a couple of pigs and a flock of chickens and putting them into a blender on high with all they parts and pieces. This ends up looking like a raw bloody meatloaf. They also enjoy restaurant quality chicken thigh quarters and chunk beef.
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Wow, really big cats. I never seen one before.
 
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Tarazet

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There was a huge thread about this not long ago. Anyway, they'll never match the importance of the most famous hybrid animal, the mule...
 
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B'z-chan

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Ever heard of a Aprium? Well you should shit likes this happens. Genetic crossover is rare but when it happens its awsome. (goes to eat a Aprium)
 
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Polari

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Taking the naming scheme into account, does this mean when you cross a mule with a donkey you get a monkey?
 
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sprsk

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DirtyHarry said:
Taking the naming scheme into account, does this mean when you cross a mule with a donkey you get a monkey?
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Monkey is my middle name.
 
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Polari

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Smiles and Cries said:
anyone else thinks wikipedia is the best thing since google?
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I do. A wealth of information that is freely reproducible and as a result, an astoundingly important project.
 
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Meier

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haha the wikipedia entry talks about Jushin Thunder Liger.. I had him on my fantasy wrestling team back in the day on the Prodigy Wrestling BBS.
 
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LakeEarth

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Yeah they're amazing. And not sterile either, which makes them their own definitive species. I don't remember exactly, but I heard since Mules and those kinds are sterile they don't count as a distinctive species or something. Maybe I'm remembering things wrong.
 
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Tarazet

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LakeEarth said:
Yeah they're amazing. And not sterile either, which makes them their own definitive species. I don't remember exactly, but I heard since Mules and those kinds are sterile they don't count as a distinctive species or something. Maybe I'm remembering things wrong.
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If I remember right from the other thread, male ligers are sterile, but females aren't.
 
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Nerevar

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sonarrat said:
If I remember right from the other thread, male ligers are sterile, but females aren't.
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not really, only 1 ever reproduced. The same thing does happen to mules too (rarely they can reproduce). Most are sterile though.
 
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pnjtony

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This may be old, but it's the first time i've seen pictures. I wanna see a liger and a polar bear duke it out.
 
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123rl

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Seen the pics before but the information was new to me:
Our liger could easily eat a hundred pound of food in a sitting but they tends to gain a little extra weight so we feed them about 25 pound of food a night. People often ask what our big cats eat. They love to eat something called, King Lion diet, which is made basically by taking a horse, a cow, a couple of pigs and a flock of chickens and putting them into a blender on high with all they parts and pieces. This ends up looking like a raw bloody meatloaf. They also enjoy restaurant quality chicken thigh quarters and chunk beef.
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Woah!
 
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xabre

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DirtyHarry said:
I do. A wealth of information that is freely reproducible and as a result, an astoundingly important project.
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Wikipedia makes Encarta and Britannica look like the shit they really are.

FortNinety said:
Damn that's fucking hot.
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I agree, it's fucking awesome.
 
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Zensetsu

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Amakusa said:
Thats one big ass fucking cat holy sweet skate boarding jesus!
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You got that right, I'ma thinking i need some armour and a sword and one of those....I could be he-man...LIVE THE DREAM
 
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UltraMarioMan

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I figured out the secret! All the animals are trying to breed a race of super animals to wipe us out! First the Wolphin then the Liger can the Wolger be far behind?
 
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