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The liliger is the hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female liger (Panthera leo♂ × Panthera tigris♀). Thus, it is a second generation hybrid. In accordance with Haldane's rule, male tigons and ligers are sterile, but female ligers and tigons can produce cubs.
The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress, or female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species . The liger is distinct from the opposite hybrid called the tigon (of a male tiger and a lioness), and is the largest of all known extant felines .
Male ligers also have the same levels of testosterone ng/dl on average as an adult male lion. In addition, female ligers also attain great size, weighing approximately 700 lb (320 kg) and reaching 10 feet (3.05 m) long on average, but are often fertile" at the end of the section describing the large size, but in the following section, the ...
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Frankly, this whole article is a mess. For example, the liger is larger than its parents, not because of hybrid vigor (in which case tiglons would also be huge, and they're not) but because in lions, size is controlled by a growth-inhibiting gene transmitted by the female, but not the male, and therefore ligers lack it.
The male liger and tigon are both sterile as a mule. Females can be fertile and can produce Ti-ligers or Ti-tiglons. This is true with most hybrids nature for some reason wants to protect itself That may have to do with the X and Y chromosomes, maybe the Y chromosome creates sterility?
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