Did you guys know that Ligers really do exist

[Mighty Thor]

I was watching Napolean Dynomite and he said that his favorite animal was a Liger.

I looked it up and there really is thing called a Liger.

It's a hybrid spawn from a male Lion and a female Tiger. A male Tiger mix with Lioness is called a Tigon. Which is very small, only 200 lbs.

A Liger the largest thing in the cat family can weigh close to a thousand pound.

http://www.bobsanimalfights.com/Liger.jpg

http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/2005/02/liger.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...804_ligers.jpg

http://www.silverdragon.com/punkie/c...iger-0599b.jpg

http://www.lovinghands.com/images/Ligers/liger.jpg

[kristen]

the 3rd pic looks like it got attacked with hair clippers!

[Mighty Thor]

But did you see that first pic. That thing is huge.

Here's a couple more pics

http://www.shambala.org/images/02_Animals/tigons.jpg

http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/image...ebar_hobbs.jpg

http://home.blarg.net/~wayule/graphics/liger1.jpg

Here's a Liger next to a Tigon
http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue14/tigon.jpg

http://artweld.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/liger.JPG

Napolean Dynomite's drawing
http://www.timmygunz.com/images/liger.jpg

[ December 21, 2005, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: Mighty Thor ]

[HokieBird]

I knew about them, but only because I read a CNN article about it earlier this year. I've never seen Napolean Dynomite [img]graemlins/stickpoke.gif[/img]

[12secondv6]

meow?

[vanbibber]

Originally posted by HokieBird:
I knew about them, but only because I read a CNN article about it earlier this year. I've never seen Napolean Dynomite [img]graemlins/stickpoke.gif[/img]

go rent it! it hilarious.

[MTMike]

Are they Ninja Pirate Ligers?

[camaro_speedemon]

Originally posted by MTMike:
Are they Ninja Pirate Ligers?

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[RicE-ter]

ive heard of people mateing a lion and tiger together b4 into what u mite call a "liger"- but to be condidered a valid species or something it has to
1)not die prematurely
2)be able to produce offspring

or something like that, i never liked biology. but its like a mule- a horse crossed with a donkey(they did that to get a better beast of burden), but mules cant reproduce. also tigers are solitary creatures in a jungle and lions live in groups in a savana, so their instincts are different.

http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm
some info and other hybrids
http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-cats.htm

[ December 21, 2005, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: RicE-ter ]

[Mighty Thor]

^ Yes, I remember that. There's been some cases but rare that a Liger can mate and reproduce with either a Lion or a Tiger or it's own kind.

A Tigon however can't reproduce.

There was a small case in the Gir Forest in India where an Asian Lion mated with a Tiger and produced a Liger. But since there are only less than 200 Lions left in Asia today, the chances of mating with a Tiger is below 0.

A Liger is produced in captivity. It has both the Lion and the Tiger's characteristic. Where it can be very aggressive and domineering like a male Lion and likes water like a Tiger.

[ December 21, 2005, 03:33 PM: Message edited by: Mighty Thor ]

[huggercamaro99]

Originally posted by vanbibber:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by HokieBird:
I knew about them, but only because I read a CNN article about it earlier this year. I've never seen Napolean Dynomite [img]graemlins/stickpoke.gif[/img]

go rent it! it hilarious. </font>[/QUOTE]I thought it was pretty boring. Don't really see why people liked it.

[Fbody3400]

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