LIGERS Oh my...

The new generations version of a Monty Pithon, Napoleon Dynamite, you know the genre "so stupid it is hilarious," spoke of a mythical creature the Liger. I hadn't given it a second thought, but today I saw someone in the office had an email with pictures of a liger.. So I had to find one to share with you..

alittle factage

The liger hybrid is more common than the tigon because the mating process is easier. The liger has both stripes and spots. The stripes are inherited from its tiger parent and the spots from the lion parent. Ligers are usually orangish/golden in color. However, there have been white tigers bred with lions to produce a very light golden coat on the offspring. If the hybrid offspring is a male, it will have a leonine mane, but it will not be as large and defined as a normal lion's mane. The liger gets most of its strength and size from both of its parents; this makes the liger possibly the largest cat in the world! On their hind legs, ligers stand approximately 12 feet tall. At most, ligers may weigh up to 1,000 pounds. Ligers make the sound of both a lion and a tiger, although their roar tends to sound more like a lion's roar. The Liger is the result of breeding a female Tiger to a male Lion.