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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now, when you get the male lion and female tiger together, it has two growth genes, causing it to grow huge, which is does because it's body litteraly does not know when to stop, and this animal is the Liger, ok, i'll go now, but, just so if you want to correct me, don't call me a he, i'm a girl, and i'm 15! oh, yeah, i'm smart, go me.
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