Have you heard about liger? Interesting facts had found that when we hybrid cross between male lion and female tiger a liger wills produce – the largest of all cats and extant felines. With 10 feet long on average and weigh about 700 lbs (320kg) for female, these enormous creature looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes and some male ligers grow sparse manes. Ligers have a tiger-like striping pattern on a lion-like tawny background. In common with tigers, their underparts are pale. The actual pattern and color depends on which subspecies the parents were and on the way in which the genes interact in the offspring. Imprinted genes contribute to liger size. Maternally-inherited expressed genes cause young liger to grow larger than is typical for either parent breed. Differ to male liger, female liger often fertile. Like tiger, liger love swimming. The largest non-obese liger alive today is named Hercules, which is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest cat on Earth, weighing in at 900 lbs lives in Jungle Island in Miami.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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