Ligers

Liger

The liger is a cat born from the breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. This combination produces an offspring with more lionistic features than if the ...

Tigon

A tigon is the result of cross breeding a male Tiger

with a female lion. This does not occur in the wild because of the territorial differences of the two cats but breeding between the two cats does occur. When mixed in captivity breeding will naturally happen and the resulting offspring will be a tigon. There is no scientific name assigned to this animal although both parents are members of genus Panthera. It’s not a natural creature, according to Science, but I believe it should be assigned a name.

During the 1800’s there were more tigons than ligers (the mix of a male lion and a female tiger)Â but that trend has turned around and tigons are not as plentiful today. There is currently breeding going on in China as you can see from the recent post about the four cubs born there in May of 2006.