"Scientists therefore assume that Ethiopia is a contact zone between the two subspecies. Other lion subspecies or sister species to the modern lion existed in prehistoric times: Lions have been bred with tigers, most often the Siberian and Bengal tigers, to create hybrids called ""ligers"" and ""tiglons"" or ""tigons"". They also have been crossed with leopards to produce ""leopons"". Such hybrid breeding is now discouraged because of the emphasis on conserving species and subspecies. Hybrids are still bred in private menageries and in zoos in China. The liger is a cross between a male lion and a tigress. Because the"
"Tigon A tigon () or tiglon () is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (""Panthera tigris"") and a female lion (""Panthera leo""). Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. The tigon is not currently as common as the converse hybrid, the liger, but in 1961, Gerald Iles wrote that he had been able to obtain three tigons, but he had never seen a liger. The tigon's genome includes genetic components of both parents, thus they can exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for"
"Gir Forest to Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, which has some tigers, but it has not been implemented as of December 2017. Tigon A tigon () or tiglon () is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (""Panthera tigris"") and a female lion (""Panthera leo""). Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. The tigon is not currently as common as the converse hybrid, the liger, but in 1961, Gerald Iles wrote that he had been able to obtain three tigons, but he had never seen a liger. The tigon's genome includes genetic components of both parents, thus"
"up smaller than either parent, because male tigers and female lionesses have a growth inhibitor. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tigons were more common than ligers. A liliger is the offspring of a liger and a lion. The first known liliger is a cub named Kiara. Rudrani, a tigon of Alipore Zoo mated with Debabrata, a reportedly Asiatic lion (but was later genetically established as a hybrid of the African and Asiatic subspecies of the lion), and gave birth to three litigons. But Cubanacan was the only surviving litigon of them. Panthera hybrid A ""Panthera"" hybrid is"
"Tiliger The tiliger is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (""Panthera tigris"") and a ligress (which is the hybrid offspring of a male lion and female tiger). The world's first tiligers were born on 16 August 2007 at The Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Although male tigons and ligers are sterile, female hybrids can produce cubs. As with ligers, tiligers grow to a size that is typically larger than either of their tiger and lion forebears. Large males can grow up to 400 kg and 3.50 meters in length, while the females may grow up to"
"Litigon A litigon is a rare second generation hybrid from a female tigon (a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion) and a male lion, specifically an Asiatic lion. The first result was a success, a female cub was born at the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta, India. At the Alipore Zoo in India, a female tigon named Rudrani, born in 1971, was successfully mated to an Asiatic Lion named Debabrata. The rare, second generation hybrid was called a litigon (/ˌlaɪˈtaɪɡən/). Rudhrani produced seven litigons. Some of these reached impressive sizes—a litigon named Cubanacan (died 1991) was estimated to"
"and tigers have historically overlapped in a portion of their range and can theoretically produce wild hybrids: ligers, which are a cross between a male lion and female tiger, and tigons, which are a cross between a male tiger and a female lion; however, tigers and lions have thus far only hybridized in captivity. In both ligers and tigons, the females are fertile and the males are sterile. One of these hybrids (the tigon) carries growth-inhibitor genes from both parents and thus is smaller than either parent species and might in the wild come into competition with smaller carnivores, e.g."
"a ""liliger"". The cub was named Kiara. Kiara was born to 8-year-old female liger Zita and male African lion Sam. In accordance with Haldane's rule, male tigons and ligers are sterile, but female hybrids can produce cubs. On May 16, 2013 the same couple produced three more female liligers: Luna, Sandra, and Eva. A liliger was born in the United States from a male lion named Simba and a female liger named Akaria at 6:18 am on November 29, 2013 at The Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Foundation in Oklahoma. At approximately 3 am on November 30, 2013, the ligress gave"
"gene from the female tiger is absent, ligers grow far larger than either parent species. The less common tigon is a cross between a lioness and a male tiger. Because the male tiger does not pass on a growth-promoting gene and the lioness passes on a growth inhibiting gene, tigons are around the same size as their parents. Females are sometimes fertile and have occasionally given birth to litigons when mated to a male Asiatic lion. The tiger has a muscular body with powerful forelimbs, a large head and a tail that is about half the length of its body."
"weigh least 362 kilograms (800 lb), stood 1.32 metres (4.3 ft) at the shoulder, and was 3.5 metres (11 ft) in total length. Litigon A litigon is a rare second generation hybrid from a female tigon (a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion) and a male lion, specifically an Asiatic lion. The first result was a success, a female cub was born at the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta, India. At the Alipore Zoo in India, a female tigon named Rudrani, born in 1971, was successfully mated to an Asiatic Lion named Debabrata. The rare, second generation hybrid"
"a man-made hybrid. A jaglion or jaguon is the offspring between a male jaguar and a female lion (lioness). A mounted specimen is on display at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Hertfordshire, England. It has the lion's background color, brown, jaguar-like rosettes and the powerful build of the jaguar. On April 9, 2006, two jaglions were born at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Barrie (north of Toronto), Ontario, Canada. Jahzara (female) and Tsunami (male) were the result of an unintended mating between a black jaguar called Diablo and a lioness called Lola, which had been hand-raised together and were inseparable. They"
"of the World"". It also reflects the classification used by the Cat Classification Task Force in 2017: Lions have been known to breed with tigers in captivity to create hybrids called ligers and tigons. They share physical and behavioural qualities of both parent species. Such hybrids were once commonly bred in zoos, but this is now discouraged due to the emphasis on conservation. The liger is a cross between a male lion and a tigress. Ligers are typically between in length, and can weigh between or more. Because the lion sire passes on a growth-promoting gene, but the corresponding growth-inhibiting"
"birth to two more cubs. Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota has said ""In terms of conservation, it's so far away from anything, it's kind of pointless to even say it's irrelevant"". The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the organisation responsible for accrediting zoos in North America, neither approves of nor breeds the animals, because they focus on the conservation of wildlife and programs serving that purpose. Liliger The liliger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (""Panthera leo"") and a ligress (""Panthera leo"" × ""Panthera tigris""). The first hybrid was"
"altaica"") and the dam - Lizzy - was a liger. Three cubs were born to that litter. Valley of the Kings in Sharon, Wisconsin is home to a female tiliger named Ti-ler. Tiliger The tiliger is a hybrid cross between a male tiger (""Panthera tigris"") and a ligress (which is the hybrid offspring of a male lion and female tiger). The world's first tiligers were born on 16 August 2007 at The Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Although male tigons and ligers are sterile, female hybrids can produce cubs. As with ligers, tiligers grow to a size"
"were kept apart when Lola came into oestrus. Tsunami is spotted, but Jahzara is a melanistic jaglion due to inheriting the jaguar's dominant melanism gene. It was not previously known how the jaguar's dominant melanism gene would interact with lion coloration genes. A liguar is an offspring of a male lion and a female jaguar. When the fertile offspring of a male lion and female jaguar mates with a leopard, the resulting offspring is referred to as a leoliguar. Reportedly, at the Altiplano Zoo in the city of San Pablo Apetatlan (near Tlaxcala, México), the crossbreeding of a male Siberian"
"had to be separated again for fear of endangering her advanced pregnancy. The cub had the body conformation of a lion cub with a large head (a lion trait), but a receding forehead (a leopard trait), fawn fur and thick, brown spotting. When it reached five months old, the owner offered it for sale and set about trying to breed more. The male leopon is a fertile offspring of a male leopard and a female lion. The fertile female liguar, offspring of a male lion and female jaguar, is capable of fertilization by a leopon. Their mating, though rare, results"
"There has even been an account of the sighting of rosettes; the stripes of the tiger being most prominent in the body. The animal was a male measuring a little over eight feet [2.44 m]."" This is the same description as given by Hicks. The 1951 book ""Mammalian Hybrids"" reported tiger/leopard matings were infertile, producing spontaneously aborted ""walnut-sized fetuses"". 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"
"only in captivity. Historically, the Asiatic lion and Bengal tiger co-occurred in some Asian countries, and there are legends of male lions mating with tigresses in the wilderness, or of ligers existing there. The Caspian tiger co-occurred with the lion in places like northern Iran and eastern Anatolia (Turkey). Liger The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (""Panthera leo"") and a female tiger (""Panthera tigris""). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines. They enjoy"
"because of cross breeding experiments between lions and tigers to produce strains like tigons, and ""litigon""s (see Panthera hybrid). The zoo bred two tigons in the 1970s – Rudrani (b. 1971) and Ranjini (b. 1973) were bred from the cross between a royal Bengal tiger and an African lion. Rudrani went on to produce 7 offsprings by mating with an Asiatic lion, producing ""litigon""s. One of these litigons, named ""Cubanacan"" survived to adulthood, stood over tall, measured over and weighed over 800 pounds. It died in 1991 at the age of 15. It was marketed by the zoo as the"
"Liliger The liliger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (""Panthera leo"") and a ligress (""Panthera leo"" × ""Panthera tigris""). The first hybrid was born at the Hellabrunn Zoo in 1943. According to ""Wild Cats of the World"" (1975) by C. A. W. Guggisberg, ligers and tigons were long thought to be sterile, but in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an 'Island' tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The female cub, though of delicate health, was raised to adulthood. In September 2012, the Russian Novosibirsk Zoo announced the birth of"
"Leoger The leoger is a Panthera hybrid between a female tiger and a male leopard. It is closely related to a tigard. Leogers have always been recorded to be stillborn. This is probably due to either to growth dysplasia or some incompatibility of the fetus leoger with the womb of the tigress. Leoger have supposedly appeared many times. Frederick Codrington Hicks recorded that the weight of these creatures varied from 50 to the weight of a tigress. In addition, in September 1965, a leoger skin was supposedly put on sale. There are some more documentations of the leoger, but most"
"of them are just of strange-looking skins that could also be attributed to genetic mutations. Most of these reports are probably hoaxes or misinterpretation, which makes it hard for scientists to learn about leogers, but at least a part of the claims are true or in part true, such as the ones made by Frederick Codrington Hick's. Leoger The leoger is a Panthera hybrid between a female tiger and a male leopard. It is closely related to a tigard. Leogers have always been recorded to be stillborn. This is probably due to either to growth dysplasia or some incompatibility of"
"tiger and a female jaguar from the southern Chiapas Jungle produced a male tiguar named Mickey. Mickey is on exhibition at a 400 m habitat and as of June 2009, was two years old and weighed . Attempts to verify this report have been bolstered by recent images purported to show the adult Mickey (see External links section). There has been no report of the birth of a healthy hybrid from a male jaguar and female tiger, which would be termed a ""jagger"". There is a claimed sighting of a lion × black jaguar cross (male) and a tiger ×"
"Liger The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (""Panthera leo"") and a female tiger (""Panthera tigris""). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines. They enjoy swimming, which is a characteristic of tigers, and are very sociable like lions. Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species, unlike tigons. The history of lion-tiger hybrids dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate"
"typically in length, and can weigh up to . The less-common tiglon or tigon is a cross between a lioness and a male tiger. In contrast to ligers, tigons are often relatively small in comparison with their parents because of reciprocal gene effects. The lion is a muscular, deep-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears. Its fur varies in colour from light buff to silvery grey, yellowish red and dark brown. The colours of the underparts are generally lighter. When they are born, have dark spots on their bodies; these spots fade as the"
"long thought to be sterile; in 1943, however, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an ""Island"" tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The female cub, although of delicate health, was raised to adulthood. At the Alipore Zoo in India, a female tigon named Rudhrani, born in 1971, was successfully mated to an Asiatic lion named Debabrata. The rare, second generation hybrid was called a ""litigon"". Rudhrani produced seven litigons in her lifetime. Some of these reached impressive sizes—a litigon named Cubanacan weighed at least , stood at the shoulder, and was in total"
"length. Reports also exist of the similar ""titigon"" , resulting from the cross between a female tigon and a male tiger. Titigons resemble golden tigers but with less contrast in their markings. A female tigon born in 1978, named Noelle, shared an enclosure in the Shambala Preserve with a male Siberian tiger called Anton, due to the keepers' belief that she was sterile. In 1983 Noelle produced a titigon named Nathaniel. As Nathaniel was three-quarters tiger, he had darker stripes than Noelle and vocalized more like a tiger, rather than with the mix of sounds used by his mother. Being"
"in a leoligular. The name ""dogla"" is an unscientific native Indian name used for a supposedly natural hybrid offspring of a male leopard and female tiger or possibly a leopard with aberrant patterns. The correct scientific term for such a hybrid is leoger. Anecdotal evidence exists in India of offspring resulting from leopard to tigress matings. The supposed hybrids are called ""dogla"" by native hunters. Indian folklore claims that large male leopards sometimes mate with tigresses. A supposed ""dogla"" was reported in the early 1900s. Many reports probably refer to large leopards with abdominal striping or other striped shoulders and"
"by Professor Sacc (F) of Barcelona Zoo (Zool Gart, 1863, 88) ""The cub a female was grey: she is said to have produced two cubs to her sire; one like a jaguar, the other like the dam. Herr Rorig expressed his regret that the account of the last two cases mentioned lacked fullness and precision."" Female jaguleps or lepjags are fertile, and when one is mated to a male lion, the offspring are referred to as lijaguleps. One such complex hybrid was exhibited in the early 1900s as a ""Congolese spotted lion"", hinting at some exotic African beast rather than"
"the leopard and the other members of the ""Panthera"" has been documented. In 1953, a lioness and a male leopard were mated in the Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya, Japan. The first litter from this pairing was born on 2 November 1959, consisting of a male and a female. Another litter was born in 1961, in which all the offspring were spotted and bigger than a juvenile leopard. The hybrid came to be known as ""leopon"". Unsuccessful attempts were made to mate a leopon with a tigress. Although lions and leopards may come into contact in sub-Saharan Africa, they are generally"
"the leopard. The other hybrid, the liger, ends up larger than either of its parents: about a thousand pounds (450 kilograms) fully-grown. No tiger-lion hybrids are known from the wild, particularly because each species is confined to geographically separated ranges (tigers are not found in Africa, and the Asiatic lion is only found in the Gir Forest National Park, where tigers also are absent). Some situations may favour hybrid population. One example is rapid turnover of available environment types, like the historical fluctuation of water level in Lake Malawi, a situation that generally favors speciation. A similar situation can be"
"mixture of spots, rosettes and stripes. Henry Scherren wrote, ""A male tiger from Penang served two female Indian leopards, and twice with success. Details are not given and the story concludes somewhat lamely. 'The leopardess dropped her cubs prematurely, the embryos were in the first stage of development and were scarcely as big as young mice.' Of the second leopardess there is no mention."" A liger is the offspring between a male lion and a female tiger. It looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes. Ligers are enormous because a male lion has a growth gene and the female"
"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 colour may be correspondingly tawny, sandy or golden. In common with tigers, their underparts are pale. The actual pattern and colour depend on which subspecies the parents were and on how the genes interact in the offspring. White tigers have been crossed with lions to produce ""white"" (actually pale golden) ligers. In theory, white tigers could be crossed with white lions to produce white, very pale or even stripeless ligers. There"