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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.
[4] [5] This was followed up by a more detailed census which revealed there was a total population of 562 wild Siberian tigers in Russia. [6] As of 2014, about 35 individuals were estimated to range in the international border area between Russia and China. [7] The Siberian tiger is genetically close to the now-extinct Caspian tiger.
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.
Tigers now occupy less than 7% of the range they used to, and in Kazakhstan, systematic hunting and a reduction of tiger prey saw the big cats declared extinct in the Caspian region in the 1950s.
Around the world there are around 100 ligers in captivity: 30 ligers in American zoos and 20 in China zoos. Records The first American liger cub was Shasta. This female liger lived from 1950-60s in Hogle Zoo, Emigration Canyon Utah.
In 2006, wildlife markets were surveyed in 28 cities and nine seaports in seven Sumatran provinces; 33 of 326 retail outlets offered tiger parts like skins, canines, bones, and whiskers. Tiger bones fetched the highest average price of US$116 per kg, followed by canines. There is evidence that tiger parts are smuggled out of Indonesia.
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