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For other uses, see Liger (disambiguation).
Liger
圖片參考:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Bertramliger.jpg/180px-Bertramliger.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Felidae
Genus:
Panthera
The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger (i.e, Panthera leo Panthera tigris[1]). A liger resembles a lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest "pure" taxon. Ligers and tigers enjoy swimming, whereas lions do not. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.
Rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild.[2] Such mating may have occurred when, in uncommon circumstances, tigers were forced into ranges inhabited by the Asiatic Lion, Panthera leo persica. However, it is generally held that such a combination of species in the wild would occur very rarely.[3] The present-day ranges of wild lions and tigers no longer overlap.[4]