Tiger - lion: 'Hero of the moment'

Tigers are forest painters in Asia. Lion dominates Africa. Both, according to the biologists' classification, belong to the cat family (Felidae). Far away ten thousand miles, they rarely meet, unless they are brought back to life in national parks, semi-wild areas or zoos.

Along with them, when they meet, sometimes they also flirt with each other, mate with each other successfully and if not, biologists will also "coerce" them in their own way, fertilizing in vitro.

So the offspring of those two 'royalty' were born, enriching the subjects in the animal kingdom.

What are their names? Not set separately in each language, so books have to be shared in English, according to the first syllable of the first name with the end of the mother's name as follows:

The first hybrid generation, Liger and Tigon, is well studied. They carry part of their mother's genes and part of her father. They have a half-sounding half of a lion, a half of a tiger, a clear portrait of a hybrid child.

Let's look at the shape and behavior of the descendants of these two famous families.

1. Liger

Liger Hercule.

Contemplate a liger, named a Greek mythical athlete Hercule. Three years old, weighing about 500kg, he has the appearance of an ancient giant animal or a product of Hollywood cinema techniques. Standing on the hind legs, rising up, the true 'high' Hercule is 3.5 meters.

In order to serve such a large body, each day a cup of meat is swallowed, usually beef or poultry.

Hercule.

Hercule is the result of a random love affair between a pair of 'big cats' living at the Research Institute of Large Endangered Large Animals in Mianmi-Florida. Dr. Bhagavan Antle, Director of the Institute humor: 'We do not intend to' act 'for young couples. For example, in the barn, the male lion kept fighting and still had a female tiger and she fell in love with the most beautiful and muscular guy so we accidentally got this 'guy'.

A good "athlete".

Hercule is a good athlete, with a sprinting speed of 50 km / h, not only that, he is also very good at swimming. This nature is like his mother because the 'father' is used to living in the vast desert, which is afraid of water. In nature, it is almost never seen that lions and tigers mate with each other, not only are they enemies.

But Hercule was not the only case because before World War II, a liger was born. And now, that number is much better.

2. Tigon

Children come from tiger father and lion mother called tigon (sometimes, in documents also known as tigron, tigron or tiglon). Tigon is much rarer than liger because of the male tigers, unaware of being too proud of the lineage and not caring about the female lion or inferior to his small body compared to the 'lover', so he lacks initiative. However, animal learners have hypothesized that 'the male tiger's flirtation is not strong enough to move the lioness (even if the female lion is in estrus).

In terms of form, the tigon is quite similar to his half-brother like liger, but in size, if the liger is bigger than both parents, the tigon is usually smaller than both 'births', because they' are 'inherit the inherent size control gene of the mother lion. The average weight of tigon is only about 150kg. Mane on the top of the tigon male is small and short, not much like a lion's mane, but a thicker coat of hair than a normal tiger, the same color as his tiger's neck.

This pair of twin tigon was born on August 27, 2009 at the Hainan zoo.

3. The third generation

Third-generation descendants are also dominated by genetics of genetics of genetics. That is the phenomenon of sterility (infertility) of male descendants.

As if tigon and liger can mate with either tigers or lions, let the third generation, the Ti-liger, the Ti-tigon (tend to resemble a tiger to 75%) or Li-tiger, Li- tigon (lion like 75%), liger and male tigon are not able to make fathers: they are . great and never have a 'follower'. The table above shows, the genealogy of their lineage ends here.

The lifespan of hybrid animals is also short. Moreover, they are often unhealthy, prone to diseases, even cancer .