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It's not a tiger or a lion... it's a liliger!
Mother gives birth to three adorable rare cubs which will grow to be among the largest cats in the world. If at first you don't succeed, li, li again! Zoo which already boasts a half-tiger, half-lion liger welcomes three liliger cubs
They may look familiar but these big cats are extremely unique and rare.
This big cat mother recently gave birth to three adorable liliger cubs at a zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia. Although the mother and her cubs look like tigers, she is in fact a lion-tiger hy-brid known as a liger - the biggest known cat in the world.
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The first was born in the zoo last year and now there's a second litter of three, all of them females. They were born in May and now have grown up enough to start exploring their surroundings, showing an endearing clumsy energy. Their mother, Zita, was born in the zoo in 2004. Their father, Sam, is an African lion. The offspring of a lion and liger is called a liliger.
The liger is the largest known cat in the world and holds similar characteristics to both lions and tigers. Just like tigers, they enjoy swimming and are very sociable like lions.
They exist only in captivity because the habitats of tigers and lions do not cross in the wild.
Ligers are known for growing bigger than either parental species.
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Edited by Milea - 19/6/2013, 22:58 |
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