There is a scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Napoleon is drawing a Liger and he says it's 'pretty much my favorite animal' or something like that. A Liger is the product of breeding a male lion and a female tiger. A Tigon is a result of the mating of a male tiger and a female lion. I had no idea there were actually such animals. Here is the Wikipedia definition. The picture above is a Liger.
The picture on the right is of two Tigons.
There are also Li-Tigons, Ti-Ligers, Ti-Tigons and Li-Ligers.
Weird.
EDITED TO ADD:
A commenter asks how there can be Li-Tigons, etc. if the Ligers and Tigons are sterile. The Wikipedia article states, 'Male ligers are usually sterile. Female ligers are often fertile and can be mated to a tiger resulting in ti-liger offspring or to a lion resulting in li-liger offspring.'
10 comments:
So like, what's the difference between a liger and a tigon? I'm so confused!!
I'm still trying ti figure out how Disney bred a Tigger. You know T-I-Double Guh-er. I bet the DNA splicing to get the spring in the tail was hard.
Donna - I added a sentence to the post explaining that a tigon is a male tiger with a female lion.
Mark - A Tigger is a wonderful thing!
Glod - You got it.
On a completely unrelated note, you haven't by any chance seen a missing corpse on a gourney?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071301604_pf.html
Wow! I had no idea there was such a thing. Learn something new everyday!
So I suppose tomorrow's piece will be about unicorns and how they're weird?
How soon till we get to satyrs? And wood nymphs?
Lucky! I'm going to go and build it a cake!
Ed - I bet that was one of my relatives. The guy driving the truck, not the corpse.
Shelli - I do my best to entertain and inform. Nah, mostly this is just useless crap.
Old Horsetail - You spoiled the surprise! Dang!
Bayou Boy - Excellent idea!
Well, I'll be...they sure are big ass animals.
Zina - Yes indeedy!
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