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Marguerite: domestic cat × sand cat (Felis margarita); kittens were born to a domestic female, in 2013 and another 20 hybrids in the United Kingdom in 2017 [16] Safari cat: domestic cat × Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) [17] [18] Savannah: domestic cat (including Bengal) × serval (Leptailurus serval) [19]
Panthera hybrids are typically given a portmanteau name, varying by which species is the sire (male parent) and which is the dam (female parent). For example, a hybrid between a lion and a tigress is a liger, because the lion is the male parent and the tigress is the female parent.
Bengal cat, a cross between the Asian leopard cat and the domestic cat, one of many hybrids between the domestic cat and wild cat species. The domestic cat, African wild cat and European wildcat may be considered variant populations of the same species (Felis silvestris), making such crosses non-hybrids. Serengeti, a hybrid crossbreed of a ...
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.
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"
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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 ...
Sharabha – A Hindu mythological creature having the head of a lion, the legs of deer, and the wings of bird. Sphinx – A creature with the head of a human or a cat, the body of a lion, and occasional wings of an eagle.