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  2. Tigon - Wikipedia

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    The tigon is a hybrid offspring of a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion, or lioness (Panthera leo). [1] They exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots – lion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father.

  3. Liger - Wikipedia

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    The history of liontiger hybrids dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and a tiger. The name "liger", a portmanteau of lion and tiger, was coined by the 1930s. [4] "Ligress" is used to refer to a female liger, on the model of ...

  4. Liliger - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Panthera hybrid - Wikipedia

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    A liger is the offspring between a male lion and a female tiger, which is larger than its parents because the lion has a growth maximizing gene and the tigress, unlike the lioness, has no growth inhibiting gene. [19] Tigon A tigon is the offspring of a female lion and a male tiger. [19] The tigon is not as common as the converse hybrid, the liger.

  6. List of genetic hybrids - Wikipedia

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    Ligers and tigons (crosses between a lion and a tiger) and other Panthera hybrids such as the lijagulep. Species P. tigris. A hybrid between a Bengal tiger and a Siberian tiger is an example of an intra-specific hybrid. Family Canidae. Fertile canid hybrids occur between coyotes, wolves, dingoes, jackals and domestic dogs.

  7. Bear, lion and tiger ('the BLT') are unexpected best friends

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    Bear, lion and tiger ('the BLT') are unexpected best friends

  8. Tiger - Wikipedia

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    The liger is the offspring of a female tiger and a male lion and the tigon the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion. [45] The lion sire passes on a growth-promoting gene, but the corresponding growth-inhibiting gene from the female tiger is absent, so that ligers grow far larger than either parent species.

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