Hercules, one of the most widely-publicized ligers can be found at Parrot Jungle Island in Miami, Florida. Not only were European news outlets profiling the beast, but the American The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Anderson Cooper 360 all featured him as well in 2005. A liger named Hobbs lives at Sierra Safari Zoo, Reno, Nevada, USA. He is the offspring of an African lion and a Bengal tigress. According to the zoo, "He roars like a lion and swims like a tiger. He's definitely all cat. He likes to play, and for all his incre ...

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Ligers have a tiger-like striping pattern on a lion-like tawny background. In addition they may inherit rosettes from the lion parent (lion cubs are rosetted and some adults retain faint markings). These markings may be black, dark brown or sandy. The background color may be correspondingly tawny, sandy or golden. In common with tigers, their underparts are paler. The actual pattern and color depends on which subspecies the parents were and on the way in which the ...

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Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus. A group of tigers is called an "ambush" or a "streak". They are predatory carnivores and the largest of all living cats. Most tigers live in forests and grasslands (for which their camouflage is ideally suited). Among the big cats, only the tiger and jaguar are strong swimmers, and tigers are often found bathing in ponds, lakes and rivers. Tigers hunt alone and eat primarily medium-sized herbivores such as deer, w ...

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Aedui, Haedui or Hedui (Gr. Aidouoi), are Gallic people of Gallia Lugdunensis, who inhabited the country between the Arar (Saone) and Liger (Loire), in today's France. The statement in Strabo (ii. 3. 192) that they dwelt between the Arar and Dubis (Doubs) is incorrect. Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d'Or and Nièvre. According to Livy (v. 34), they took part in the expedition of ...

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The Carnutes (Latin Carnuti), a powerful Celtic people in the heart of independent Gaul, dwelled in a particularly extensive territory between the Sequana (Seine) and the Liger (Loire) rivers. Their lands later corresponded to the dioceses of Chartres, Orleans and Blois, that is, the greater part of the modern departments of Eure-et-Loir, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher. The territory of the Carnutes had the reputation among Roman observers of being the political and religious center of the Gallic nations. The chief fortified towns were < ...

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Conservation status: Vulnerable The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. It is the largest and most powerful living felid with the exception of the tiger. The male lion, easily recognized by his mane, may weigh up to 250 kg (550 lb) Females are much smaller, weighing up to 90 kg (300 lb). In the wild lions live for around 10–14 years, while in captivity they can live over 20. Lions are predatory carnivores who live in family groups, called prides. The family c ...

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Conservation status: Prehistoric The cave lion, also known as the European or Eurasian cave lion, is an extinct feline known from fossils and a wide variety of prehistoric art. It is the largest cat that ever existed, and was about 25% larger than the modern African lion. Cave lion - Size. The cave lion averaged 3.5 m (11.5 ft) in length, with a male weighing about 235 kg (520 lb), and a typical female weighing 175 kg (385 lb). The Siberian tiger and the Smilodo ...

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Big cat refers to the medium-to-large wild felids of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Australia and Antarctica have no indigenous species of big cats. Like the domestic cat, all of the big cats are carnivores and efficient predators. The term is used to distinguish these large felids from the domestic cat and other smaller Felidae species. Felines can either roar or purr but not both, and only members the genus Panthera are able to roar. Consequently, this is sometimes used a ...

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Conservation status: Prehistoric The American lion, also known as the North American or American cave lion, is an extinct feline known from fossils. It is comparable in size to the Eurasian cave lion, the largest cat that ever existed, and was about 25% larger than the modern African lion. American lion - Description. The American lion averaged 3.5 m (11.5 ft) in length, with a typical male weighing about 235 kg (520 lb), and a typical female weighing about 175 kg ...

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History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalos creationism Theistic evolution Neo-Creationism Islamic creationism Intelligent design - Intelligent design movement Modern geocentrism Controversy: Creation vs. evolution ... in public education As ...

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Ligers may exhibit emotional or behavioural conflicts due to their mixed ancestry. They inherit different or mixed vocabularies (tigers "chuff", lions roar). G Peters included several hybrids (liger, tigon, leopon, leguar) in his "Comparative Investigation of Vocalisation in Several Felids" published in German in Spixiana-Supplement, 1978; (1): 1-206. They may inherit conflicting behavioural traits from the parent species. Ligers may exhibit conflicts between the social habits of the lion and the solitary habits of the tiger. T ...

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Ligers grow much larger than tigers or lions and it is believed this is because female lions transmit a growth-inhibiting gene to their descendants to balance the growth-promoting gene transmitted by male lions (this gene is due to competitive mating strategies in lions). A male lion needs to be large to successfully defend the pride from other roaming male lions and pass on his genes; also, in prides with multiple male adult lions, a male's cubs need to be bigger than the competing males for the best chance of survival. Thus, his genes favo ...

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Yamada wrested as an amateur wrestler while studying in high school. He applied to New Japan Pro Wrestling to become a professional wrestler in the early 1980's. He was not accepted because he did not meet the height requirements they had at that time. Yamada was determined not to give up his dream of becoming a professional wrestler, so he left for Mexico and began his training there. By his own account he was almost starving while studying there that visiting NJPW officials took pity in him and asked him to come back to Japan. While contin ...

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Jushin Liger - Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is a member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (inducted in 1999) 1984 Rookie of the Year (tied with Tom Zenk) 1989 Best Technical Wrestler 1989 Best Flying Wrestler 1990 Most Outstanding Wrestler 1990 Best Technical Wrestler 1990 Best Flying Wrestler 1990 Match of the Year (vs Naoki Sano) 1991 Most Outstanding Wrestler 1991 Best Technical Wrestler 1991 Be ...

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Male tigons are sterile while the females are generally fertile. In India, a tigon named Rudhrani, born in 1971, was mated to an Asiatic lion called Debabrata and produced 7 "li-tigons" in her lifetime. Some of these reached impressive sizes - a li-tigon named Cubanacan (died 1991) weighed at least 800lb/363 kg, stood 52 inches/1.32 metres at the shoulder and 11.5ft/3.5 metres total length. In "Wild Cats Of The World" (1975), Guggisberg wrote that ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile: In 1943, however, a fifteen year o ...

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A tigard is the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a leopardess. The only known attempts to mate the two have produced stillborns. In 1900, Carl Hagenbeck crossed a female leopard with a Bengal tiger. The stillborn offspring had a mixture of spots, rosettes and stripes. The 1951 book "Mammalian Hybrids" reported that tiger/leopard matings were infertile, producing spontaneously aborted "walnut sized foetuses". ...

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Panthera hybrid, Panthera hybrid - Dogla, Panthera hybrid - Jaglion, Panthera hybrid - Jagulep, Panthera hybrid - Leopon, Panthera hybrid - Leotig, Panthera hybrid - Lepjag, Panthera hybrid - Liard, Panthera hybrid - Liger, Panthera hybrid - Liguar, Panthera hybrid - Tigard, Panthera hybrid - Tigon, Panthera hybrid - Tiguar

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Tiger crosses in captivity have been common for centuries. The first recorded cross-breeding in India dates back to 1837 when a tigon was presented to Queen Victoria from the princess of Jamnagar (an Indian state). India has a long history of keeping and breeding tigers, especially the "white tigers" now found in zoos around the world. Gerald Iles also referred to a travelling circus in the 1830 whos tiger and lioness produced litter after litter of hybrid cubs, some of which were exhi ...

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In 1987, two tigons (Aster, a male, and Tangier, a female) were bred accidentally to a Bengal tiger and a lioness at an Ashtons Circus in Australia. In 1994 Aster mauled a child who put put his arms through the bars of the tigons' cage. In December 2000, Australia's National Zoo in Canberra acquired the tigons, along with lions and tigers, from the private facility whose big cat accommodation was found to be inadequate. Although the zoo does not normally take on hybrids and will not breed any hybrid big cats, the tigons had no alternative an ...

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A liard or lipard is the proper term for a hybrid of a male lion with a leopardess. It is sometimes known as a reverse leopon. The size difference between a male lion and a leopardess usually makes the mating of the two difficult. A lion x leopardess hybrid was born in Schoenbrunn Zoo, Vienna in 1951. Another lion x leopardess hybrid was born in Florence, Italy (it is often erroneously referred to as a leopon). It was born on the grounds of a paper mill near Florence to a lion and leopardess acquired from R ...

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Panthera hybrid, Panthera hybrid - Dogla, Panthera hybrid - Jaglion, Panthera hybrid - Jagulep, Panthera hybrid - Leopon, Panthera hybrid - Leotig, Panthera hybrid - Lepjag, Panthera hybrid - Liard, Panthera hybrid - Liger, Panthera hybrid - Liguar, Panthera hybrid - Tigard, Panthera hybrid - Tigon, Panthera hybrid - Tiguar

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