Ligers and Tigons - How do you get a liger, and what do ligers look like?
Said on the first page, a liger is born of a male lion and a female tiger. Ligers cannot be found in the wild because lions and tigers are found on different continents, so they would never be close enough to breed. Ligers can have manes and have a much higher chance of having a mane because of their lion dad, but this will only occur if the offspring is a male. They have stripes (like the tiger) on their body and spots on their belly. Their fur color is a tanish color, much like a lion's. Ligers are the biggest big cat in the world. They can grow to eleven feet tall (when standing on its hind legs) and weigh about half a ton! Ligers tend to be bigger than their parents. Ligers are capable of making lion and tiger sounds, but their roar sounds more lion-like. They can run 50-60 miles per hour. You cannot breed a liger with a liger but can only get another liger by cross-breeding one (like most cross-breeds). However you can breed a liger with a lion(li-liger) but you just end up with a more-lion-like liger.
Where Tigers Live
Where Lions Live
Ligers and Tigons - How do you get a tigon, and what do tigons look like?
Similar to ligers, you cannot breed a tigon and a tigon; you have to cross breed (said on the fist page) a male tiger with a female lion. You can, though, breed a tiger with a tigon to get a more tiger-like-tigon (ti-tigon). Tigons are less popular because of their size. Unlike ligers, tigons are very small. Sometimes, tigons are smaller than their parents! Tigons can have offspring that have manes (again if the offspring is male) but it is not as likely as a liger to have a mane. Tigons are an orangish color. Tigons, like ligers, have the tiger stripes, and spots on their bellies. Also like ligers, tigons can produce tiger and lion sounds. So, really, the only difference between them is their size.