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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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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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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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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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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A dogla is a supposedly a natural hybrid offspring of a tiger and a leopard or possibly a leopard with aberrant patterns. Note: The term "panther" used here refers exclusively to the Indian leopard in either spotted or black form. There is anecdotal evidence in India of offspring resulting from leopard to tigress matings. The supposed hybrids are called "dogla". Indian folklore claims that large male leopards sometimes mate with tigresses. A supposed dogla was reported in the early 1900s. Many reports are probably large ...

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A jagulep, or jagleop, is the hybrid of a jaguar and a leopardess. A single female rosetted, female jagulep was produced at a zoo in Chicago. The terms jagulep and lepjag are often used interchangeably regardless of which animal was the sire. Numerous lepjaps have been bred as animal actors as they are more tractable than jaguars. The jaguar-leopard hybrids bred at Hellbrun Zoo, Salzburg were described as jagupards which conforms ...

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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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A jaglion or jaguon is the offspring between a male jaguar and a female lion (lioness). An image of a jaglion can be found at Hybrid Big Cats. The mounted specimen is on display at the Natural History Museum, Tring, England. It has the lion's background colour, brown jaguar-like rosettes and the powerful build of the jaguar. There is an unverifiable report of a lioness /black jaguar cross seen in Maui, Hawaii, in the company of an alleged tiger/black jaguar cross tiguar ("tiguars" have never been bred and m ...

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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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Known male ligers have all been sterile. Many, however, reach sexual maturity and copulate with lionesses, tigresses or with female hybrids. A. H. Bryden reported in "Animal Life and the World of Nature" (1902), Already, I understand, Mr Hagenbeck has mated the big lion-tiger hybrid with other pure-bred felines, but with no result. This referred to the liger bred in 1897. Female ligers are often fertile and can be mated to a tiger resulting in ti-liger offspring or to a lion resulting in li-liger offspring. A behavioural research program in the USA has bred a female ti-liger called Lady Kali. At 2 yea ...

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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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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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Other very occasional sightings have been claimed of bluish-toned tigers, particularly in the Fujian Province. There was one report from the son of a US Army soldier who served in Korea during the Korean War. His father is certain he sighted a blue tiger in the mountains there, near what is now the Demilitarized Zone. Caldwell's hunting expedition indicated that blue tigers, if they are a separate race, preferred inaccessible regi ...

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A lepjag, or leguar, is the hybrid of a male leopard and a female jaguar. The terms jagulep and lepjag are often used interchangeably regardless of which animal was the sire. Numerous lepjaps have been bred as animal actors as they are more tractable than jaguars. The female hybrids are fertile and when a female jagulep or lepjag is mated to a male lion, the offspring are referred to as lijaguleps. One such complex hybrid was exhibited in the early 1900s under the name of a Congolese Spotted Lion, hinting at some exotic beast captured in dar ...

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Lions have also been known to breed with their close counterparts, tigers (most often Siberian), while in captivity to create interesting mixes. These two new breeds are called ligers and tigons. The liger originates from mating a male lion and a tigress. Because the lion passes on a growth-promoting gene, but the corresponding growth-inhibiting gene from the female lion is not present, ligers are larger than either parent. It is said that ligers do not stop growing and will grow constantly through their lifespan, until their bodies c ...

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Although different subspecies of tiger have different characteristics, in general male tigers weigh between 150 and 310 kg (330 lbs and 680 lbs) and females between 100 and 160 kg (220 lbs and 350 lbs). The males are between 2.6 and 3.3 metres (8 ft 6 in and 10 ft 9 in) in length, and the females are between 2.3 and 2.75 metres (7 ft 6 in and 9 ft) in length. Of the more common subspecies, Corbetts Tigers are th ...

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There are nine subspecies of tiger, three of which are extinct and one of which is almost certain to become so in the near future. Their historical range (severely diminished today) ran through Russia, Siberia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China and southeast Asia, including the Indonesian islands. These are the surviving subspecies, in descending order of wild population: The Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur, Manchurian or North China tiger, is confined almost tota ...

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Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake, "The Tyger", Songs of Experience The word tiger is borrowed from Greek tigris, itself borrowed from Persian ([3]). American English Tigress first recorded 1611. Tiger's-eye "yellowish-brown quartz" is recorded from 1891. The tiger has certainly managed to appeal to man's imagination. Both Rudyard Kipling in The Jungle Bo ...

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