Mixed-Up Breeds?!

Learnt new stuffs today! Jus to share~

Eileen jus reached home, proclaiming how huge the size of the beast.. piangzz.. dunno wat the hell she's talkin abt..Pissed* Seemed fed-up enuf wit me too, she went to her room, took today's TNP & showed me the photos of the beast she's been talkin abt.. kekek.. >.<

She's RIGHT! Reli damn HUGE! It's a LIGER~

Uncontrollable, I "KI-SIAO" again! Too fascinated! And here comes my SUPER DUBER VERY LONGish post!

It is the "PRODUCT" after

the 'love-making' of a LION with a TIGRESS

Liger - More amazing videos are a click away



Worlds Largest Liger - More amazing videos are a click away






Information collected from webbies:

Liger is the offspring of a male lion and a female tigress, and is named after the combination of their names: l(ion)+(t)iger. It is bigger than either parent, 10 - 12 ft in length and the weight of up to 1,400 pounds - making it the biggest hybrid cat

Perhaps the liger is even the biggest cat that ever existed in the history. At least, encyclopaedical data for fossil cats--saber-toothed Smilodon, including the biggest of Smilodons, Smilodon populator; Homotherium, Dinofelis, Metailurus, Megantereon, Machairodont, others, and their ancestor Pseudaelurus--don't show that these cats were as big as ligers.

Perhaps only the cave lion that became extinct only 10,000 years ago, was as big as the liger; as scientific sources report, it was "about 1/3 times bigger than the modern lion". Thus, the LIGER could be called the CAVE LION OF OUR DAYS!

Ligers vary in appearance depending on how the genes interact and on which subspecies of lion and tiger are bred together. In general, males grow sparse leonine manes and the facial ruff of a tiger. Males and females have spotted bellies and a striped back. They roar like lions and "chuff" like tigers. The females exhibit conflicting needs for sisterhood (pride-like activities of lionesses) and solitude (a tiger-like trait).

They swim! A feat that's unheard of among water-fearing lions.

This giant is able to reach the same speed as it’s parents: up to 50 miles per hour at short distances, and it walks as silently as them.

Ligers' life span is from 20 to 25 years. Lions also live up to this time; at least, the oldest known lion died at 26.

Eats about 20 lbs. of meat (beef or chicken) per day, and can consume up to 100 lbs of food in one sitting!

Male ligers are STERILE -- NO FERTILE males have been found, at least to-date; else it would be possible to breed these giant cats.


Female ligers are fertile, which allows breeding hybrid creatures (called ti-liger, from Tiger father and LIGER mother)

Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II. It is highly UNLIKELY for them to occur in the wild because:

1. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers in Asia. Yet about 200 lions live in the Gir National Park and Lion Sanctuary in Bangladesh, India... but there is no even one tiger within 100 miles from this area.

2. If even they met, the tiger, being a very solitary cat, would be unwilling to join in with the lions who usually live in prides -- and almost all lionesses live in prides. Tigers avoid even other tigers, except when it is time for them to mate...

Pics of Ligers*

Will ligers be able to survive in the wild???
Watch the clip below~



"What will be the result if we cross a male tiger with a female lion?"

That will be a tigon (also called tiglon); unlike the liger, this creature is much smaller in size than both of it’s parents. Females are often fertile, while males, like liger males, seem to be always STERILE!


Tigons

*Hybrids*


A "Titigon" -- a hybrid of tiger and tigon;

A "leopon" -- a hybrid of lion and leopard;

A "pumapard" - a hybrid of puma and leopard. One of most interesting traits of the "pumapard" is that it is the offspring of animals belonging to different genera (puma to Felis and leopard to Panthera), as these genera are classified nowadays--not to different species within one genus, like horses, zebras, and donkeys, and tigers and lions--which makes the pumapard's classification, within the existing animals taxonomy, doubtful.

A "jaglion" -- a hybrid of lion and jaguar;

A "boblynx" -- a hybrid of bobcat and lynx;

A "caraval" - a hybrid of caracal to serval;



"Non-cat" interspecies hybrids (males almost always fertile):

A "zonkey" -- a hybrid of zebra and donkey;

A "zorse" -- a hybrid of zebra and horse;

A "zony" - a hybrid of zebra and pony;

A "Toast of Botswana", -- a hybrid of a female goat to a male sheep;

A "cama" -- a hybrid of camel and llama;

A "yakalo" - a hybrid of buffalo or bison and yak;

A "cattalo" (or "beefalo") -- a cross of a bison with a domestic cattle;

A "coywolf" -- a hybrid of coyote and wolf;

A "wholphin" -- a hybrid of a bottlenose dolphin mother and a false killer whale father. Same situation like with the "pumapard" (parents belong to different genera).

Some intraspecies hybrids (both genders fertile):

A "wig" -- a cross of a wild and a domestic pig;

An unnamed cross of a Siberian and a Manchurian tiger.




^For more data on hybrid animals, visit the following sites^

http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-bigcats.html
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/crossesa.htm






This is super FUNNY!! But reli did make some sense.. whaha!!

BULLSHIT!!!! Whahha!!!

Wat a breed!!!

--- TERMS ---***

Inter-specific: hybrids between two different species e.g. between lion and tiger.

Intra-specific: hybrids between two sub-species of the same species e.g. between Siberian tiger and Bengal tiger.

Sub-species: a geographically localised population with distinct characteristics which differentiate it from a population localised elsewhere e.g. the different mane colours/densities of lion subspecies

Breed: a variety within a species, produced or refined by human selection to fix certain traits, as opposed to a geographically localised sub-species population formed by natural selection. E.g. Siamese cat and Persian cat.

Hybrid: an individual whose parents are from different species or different subspecies or different breeds (depending on context).

Pure-bred: an individual whose parents are both the same species i.e. not a hybrid.

Back-cross: to mate an offspring back to a purebred individual (usually to one of its own parents).

Inbreeding: breeding together very closely related individuals e.g. brother/sister, mother/son, father/daughter.

Taxonomy: means of grouping organisms into related groups based on similarities/differences of form and DNA.

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White Tiger's Fact & Myth - Video Clip
Saw tis clip while browsin for info on LIGERS... Good to knw~