Liger ( Panthera Tiglon )

Liger ... or panthera tiglon!



What do you get when you mix a tiger with a lion?  A liger, of course! A liger is born when you mix a male lion with a tigress.  Ligers take their swimming skills from their mother, the tigress, and take socialism from their father, the lion. They tend to be bigger than either parent, and a male liger in India was reported to be about 800 pounds.

 The oldest recorded liger was 24 years old when she died. A rare species of liger can be produced by mating a lion with a liger. It is called a litigon.  The largest liger on record was over 1000 pounds when he died. It's horrible to think of how big the parents were, huh? If they were average sized, they probably lived their life in fear of their baby- I mean, 1000 pounds is huge!

Another rare breed of liger can be produced by mating an albino tiger and lion together. Sometimes this creates a liger without stripes, just plain white. Usually, a liger takes after its mom with the white underbelly and faint stripes. It occasionally gets rosettes from its dad. It depends on genes on if it gets a mane or not.