The Ligers and Tigons!!!

The liger is a cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This combo produces an offspring with more lion like features than if the reverse pairing had occured. That would produce a more tiger like creature known as a tigon. Both are members of genus Panthera.There is no scientific name assigned to this animal because of its human assisted breeding.

A liger looks like a giant lion with faded stripes but like thier tiger ancestors, ligers like swimming. This goes against the nature of a lion but is what makes the creature special. It gets the best of both parents. That is not always the case though with crossbreeds. Sometimes the results go the other way and the animal gets the worst of both parents. That would suck!

Yes, ligers are the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion is called a tigon. Ligers tend towards gigantism and are generally larger than either of their parents, whilst tigons are generally smaller or at least no larger than their parents. Like most hybrids, both are usually sterile, but occasionally a female will be fertile and can be bred back to a male lion or tiger, producing:

Lion + liger = li-liger
Lion + tigon = li-tigon
Tiger + liger = ti-liger
Tiger + tigon = ti-tigon

There is no record of fertile males, so you could never breed two ligers or two tigons together, or a liger with a tigon.