If any one is interested I have found a picture of a liger
23 Apr 08 ~ Liger pictures from travel photos on webshots
23 Apr 08 ~ Liger pictures from travel photos on webshots
Liger
- Thread starter bongorob
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i think i saw one as a child at a circus. well i think i did
They were 2 tigons Ben. They were accidently bred but went on to live a long life - the final part of which was/is at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra.
Fortunately, in Australia it is now expressly forbidden by our licensing authorities to deliberately breed such hybrids.
MARK
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I saw some pics of a Liger on an American website that weights 500kgs, it was about double the size if the tiger next to it
lets hope they dont match a liger with a tigon !!!!
Could you imagine what the meat bill would be like?
I saw two ligers in the UK last year and they were HUGE. They were also the goofiest animals that I have met in a long while - very sweet natured, but their size alone was frightening. They are now in Japan.
MARK - they were both young adults. I am the world's worst estimator of weights but, compared to some lions that I once had to weigh to airfreight, I would guess that the ligers would be in excess of 400 kg each.
NZ Jeremy
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lets hope they dont match a liger with a tigon !!!!
Aren't these guys usually sterile..?
MARK
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Okay; so they are giant cats - but to me the truly attractive cats (large and small) are those which are sleek, svelte and muscular! (Something tigons and ligers are not.)
If I wanna see flab I'll look in the mirror!
Ara, The pics I saw of the US Ligers were just huge cats and muscular
Where did you see the ligers in the UK? Was not aware of any over here.
Ligers are usually sterile, occasionally female tigons are fertile. Not usually enough around to confirm this theory, but similar situation comes up with other closely related species. I believe that hinnys (Male donkey/female horse) are also occasionally fertile. Why?????