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Liger
The liger is a big cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This genetic combination produces an offspring with more lion features than if the reverse mating had occurred. A member of genus Panthera, it has not been assigned a scientific name because of its human-assisted ancestry.
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How do ligers protect themselves?
Ligers only appear in some zoos and similar places, so they don't really need to protect themselves. If there's a conflict between a liger and another big cat, it'll defend itself with claws and teeth as you would expect.
Do you know that Ligers and Tigons are born without any genetic engineering that had been done by human? In Singapore, which is known as lion country, they detected that in the lion and tiger conservation, there are some lions and tigers mating each other. The results are Ligers and Tigons were born...and you should know this, now Ligers are the biggest cat in the world!!
This is the information that I got...
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 first liger cubs known to exist were born in 1823 in England; the cubs' parents shared a den at an exhibit and frequently mated. Today, the breed can be found in numerous zoos and animal sanctuaries throughout the world.
This is not true. There have never been any recorded natural mating between lions and tigers in the wild.
How does a female tiger and a male lion have its baby?
In the same way as all mammals do. First of all the male and female have sex leading to the fertilisation of of the ovum that the female lion caries. To cut a long story short, once that is done the ovum develops into a cub in the womb of the female lion.
Most lionesses will have reproduced by the time they are four years of age.
Lions do not mate at any specific time of year, and the females are polyestrous. As with other cats, the male lion's penis has spines which point backwards. Upon withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the females vagina, which may cause ovulation. A lioness may mate with more than one male when she is in heat; during a mating bout, which could last several days, the couple copulates twenty to forty times a day and are likely to forgo eating.
During a mating bout, a couple may copulate 20 to 40 times a day for several days
The average gestation period is around 110 days, the female giving birth to a litter of one to four cubs in a secluded den (which may be a thicket, a reed-bed, a cave or some other sheltered area) usually away from the rest of the pride. She will often hunt by herself whilst the cubs are still helpless, staying relatively close to the thicket or den where the cubs are kept. (wikipedia)
What is the difference between a liger and a tiger?
The liger is stronger and bigger in size with the tiger. Ligers are mixed male lion and a female tiger. A tiger may be found naturally in Asia, while ligers are hybrids "made" by unnatural breeding through human intervention and only found in certain private Collections.
Is there an animal called liger?
yes! mammals are those animals which give direct birth to their children and feed them with milk.
Is a liger bigger than a moose?
The largest extinct lions were around 700 pounds, while ligers can top 900 pounds. The mega-lion stood 2 meters tall and 4 meters in length.
Actually hisory channel says the mega lion is the longest, heaviest cat that ever lived.
No, since Ligers are a breed of tigers and lions they can't breed on because of their genes.
Answer: The above is incorrect.
Female tigons and ligers have often proved to be fertile and can mate with a lion, tiger or in theory with another species such as leopard or jaguar. Tigons and ligers have been mated together to produce ti-ligers (tig-ligers). Tigers and tigons have been mated to produce ti-tigons. Ti-ligers and ti-tigons are more tigerlike (75% tiger). Ti-tigons resemble golden tigers but with less contrast in their markings. During the late 1970s/early 1980s, the Shambala Preserve had both a tigon and a ti-tigon. Noelle, the tigon, was born in 1978. Believing that big cats are always infertile, staff allowed Noelle to share an enclosure with a male Siberian tiger called Anton. In 1983, Noelle produced a ti-tigon name Nathaniel. Being 75% tiger, Nathaniel had darker stripes than his mother and he "spoke" tiger rather than the mix of sounds used by his mother. Being only 25% lion, Nathaniel did not grow a mane. He died age 8 or 9 years old due to cancer. Noelle also developed cancer and died soon after. It is possible that the mix of genes contributed to the illness.
A normal non-obese liger weighs around 900 to 1000 pounds. However, a liger can grow and gain weight beyond that as well. The highest recorded weight for a liger was in Wisconsin. That liger weighed 1600 pounds. So my answer is that at maximum a liger can weigh around maximum 1600 to 1800 pounds. That is very huge.
What organ does a tiger use for locomotion?
"Locomotory" refers to movement. It refers to muscles. Muscles are innervated by nerves under control of the brain, and supplied with nutrition through the circulatory system and respiratory system.
ligers are not recognized as a specie. They are hybrids, created when two animals that would never encounter each other naturally are tricked to breed with each other.
And since they're usually sterile - ligers can't make new ligers - they can't form an own specie.
How many chinchillas are living today?
In the wild they are almost extinct but now they are domesticated as well
Usually between 9-11 feet, you may think that's low if you have ever read that lions and tigers are up to 12-13 feet, and that ligers are usually larger than both, ligers are indeed larger, its just the average male of both tigers and lions is really less than 10 feet, a lot of the large measurements come from old stretched truths, or strecthed skins which is a popular practice with lots of animals including crocs and snake.
Ligers are a hybrid made from a male lion and a female tiger. This generally only happens in captivity, although very rarely it does occur in the wild. Male ligers become sexually mature and will mate, but are sterile. Female ligers can reproduce. They are the largest member of the cat family. Hercules the liger is over 900 pounds and not obese. That is twice the size of a male lion. Ligers have the coloration of a lion and the patterns of a tiger. Ligers have the coloration of a lion, but the striped pattern of a tiger. They are very large.
someone else>>>>>>Actually, i have seen a Liger in real life, they had the poor thing in a glass display thing like at the zoo, It looks like a White tiger, and it has orange stripes, and yes the are large, the female ligers can get as big as a male Bengal tiger, and the males are a little bigger than that. Also, some may gain the characteristics of a lion, they can have a mane, and a fluff at the end of their tail, like a lion.
It is a very large cross breed of a lion and a tiger. It has a body of a tiger but much larger and mostly a face of a lion, it has a short mane. ( beard )
A normal life span of a liger is about 15 years. 2 liger's that were kept in zoo's, lived until their early 20's.
Look at a picture of a tiger and a picture of a lion. When you draw your Liger, you can use whatever characteristics you want from each animal.
What is the crhomosome number for a liger?
what cromosomes does a mother and father of a liger have A Liger , as you know, is a cross between a lion (Panthera leo) and a Tiger (Panthera tigris). Since these parents each have 38 chromosomes (2N=38), so do the Liger. To explain this a little deeper, a Liger should get 19 chromosomes from its' dad, and 19 from its' mom (1N=19), this is the haploid number, so 2N=38 for Lion, Tiger and Liger. As a good analogy to this, we all know a human has 46 chromosomes (2N=46). 23 of them are from Mom and 23 from Dad.
A liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. This should not be confused with a tigon, which is the offspring of a female lion and a male tiger.
What are the ligers defense mechanisms?
the ligers are a cross between a lion and a tiger
their defense mechanisms are their teeth and their claws
