cs-liger

===__It's Pretty Much My Favorite Animal __ === You want one? Well have fun getting a male lion and a female tiger. That's what makes a liger. Ligers have more lion features as you can see in fig 1. A liger goes back to early 19th century in Asia. __**Appearance and Size**__ Ligers have a tiger-like striping pattern on a lion-like fur. Ligers are usually orangish gold color. They're bigger than Tigons (a cross between a male tiger and female lion..BIG DIFFERENCE!) because of this fancy thing called "genomic imprinting." That's the unequal parting of genes depending on parent of the species. If a liger stands on it's hind legs, lthey can stand to approximately 12 feet tall. Ligers grow larger than lions and even larger than tigers!! Which can make them weigh up to 850 pounds! Some ligers have been known to weigh over 1200 pounds!!!! That's over twice the size of a male lion! __**Lifespan of a Liger**__ The life span of a liger is about 35 years. __ First Born! __ The first of the ligers were born on October the 24th, 1824, at Windsor. There were two males and one female. __Habitat, Diet ,and __ __Behavior __ Well, ligers aren't found in the wild, so don't go looking for one in the jungle. They only come from captive breeding, Ligers are a captive breed of cats living in zoos, animal parks or special habitats.As far as diets go, it's just the basic lion-tiger diet! Ya know, birds, pigs, maybe even zebra and antolope. Ligers can be gentle and easy going. Although, in October 2008 a liger attacked its volunteer handler in Oklahoma. The handler died from his injuries. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 152, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 152, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">History! Short and Sweet! **__ <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The history of ligers isn't very well known. The history of ligers isn't very well known. The ligers have been very carefully worked out by Professor Valentine Bail, Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. The parents of these hybrids were in a travelling in captivity by Mr. Thomas Atkins, and six litters of ligers were produced between the years 1824 and 1833. The parent Lion was bred in the captivity while the Tigress was born in the collection of the Marquis of Hastings at Calcutta, and was purchased when about eighteen months old. Being of the same age as the Lion, she was placed with him in the same cage. Lions are usually found in Africa, while tigers are normally located in Asia. With the known difference of the two parent species, the chance meeting between a tiger and a lion to mate is pretty unlikely. But there has been fairy tales of ligers. They don't look like they do in real life but, more like the one **Napoleon Dynamite** drew! Fig 2. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(255, 152, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 152, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Random Liger Stuff and A Video! __** <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">One of the ligers were even born in the Salt Lake City zoo her name was Shasta. She was born on May 14, 1948 and died in 1972 at age 24. My grandpa (who lived in Utah) had seen her before. If only she was still living, that I could have seen her too. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ligers are known to swim really well with their strong legs and paws. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">In Animal Life and the World of Nature, A.H. Bryden described Hagenbeck's "lion-tiger" hybrids. Here is the article: <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"It has remained for one of the most enterprising collectors and naturalists of our time, Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, not only to breed, but to bring successfully to a healthy maturity, specimens of this rare alliance between those two great and formidable felidae, the lion and tiger. The illustrations will indicate sufficiently how fortunate Mr. Hagenbeck has been in his efforts to produce these hybrids. The oldest and biggest of the animals shown is a hybrid born on the 11th May, 1897. This fine beast, now more than five years old, equals and even excels in his proportions a well-grown lion, measuring as he does from nose tip to tail 10 ft 2 inches in length, and standing only three inches less than 4 ft at the shoulder. A good big lion will weigh about 400 lb [...] the hybrid in question, weighing as it does no less than 467 lb, is certainly the superior of the most well-grown lions, whether wild-bred or born in a menagerie. This animal shows faint striping and mottling, and, in its characteristics, exhibits strong traces of both its parents. It has a somewhat lion-like head, and the tail is more like that of a lion than of a tiger. On the other hand, it has little or no trace of mane. It is a huge and very powerful beast. In 1935, four ligers from two litters were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three of them, a male and two females, were still living in 1953. The male weighed 750 lb. and stood a foot and a half taller."

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