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A felid hybrid is any of a number of hybrids between various species of the cat family, Felidae. This article deals with hybrids between the species of the subfamily Felinae ( feline hybrids ). For hybrids between two species of the genus Panthera (lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards), see Panthera hybrid .
The history of lion–tiger 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 ...
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 first such hybrid was born in 1943, at the Hellabrunn Zoo.
While most ligers have a lion parent and a tiger parent, Jing Jing was born to a liger mom and a tiger dad. Adorable liger cub — lion and tiger hybrid — turns 100 days old in zoo [Video] Skip ...
Family Felidae (see Felid hybrids); various other wild cat crosses are known involving the lynx, bobcat, leopard, serval, etc. Pumapard, a hybrid between a cougar and a leopard. Subfamily Felinae. Savannah cats are the hybrid cross between an African serval cat and a domestic cat
Cat owners have been urged to avoid the newly emerging “bullycats,” a hybrid breed that resembles the controversial XL bully dogs. Breeders in the US have created the new cat breed by mixing ...
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This category is for cat breeds and varieties that are hybrids with part domestic cat and part wild felid ancestry in recent times. It is not for cross-breeds of two different domestic cat breeds. Pages in category "Domestic–wild hybrid cats"