The liger - an interesting animal. It´s father is a lion and the mother is a tiger. They only exist in captivity because Lions and Tigers don´t live at the same places in nature. The liger can be much bigger than it´s parents. There is a DNA that prevents the animals to grow too big but that DNA is only carried by the female lion and the male tiger. Fascinating...

 

Check out this link. Liger

 

When me and my daughter searched the Wikipedia for this strange hybrid we found that there are lots of different kind of hybrids between lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. They have cleverly been named tigon, leopn, dogla etc. The funniest was the Tiger/Jaguar hybrid, which name is Jagger!

Ligers are pretty. :)

it's not just the humans that engage in way beyong PG 13 behaviors. i'm guessing zoos are kind of boring and depressing for the animals, who turn to ... inappropriate partners for solace.

Sometimes I have strange thoughts - and I´m not talking about non PG-13 stuff here! Like if you throw a lot of different snakes in a pit. Would they eat each other or can there be snake hybrids? I have no idea why I bring this up because, as you know, I have a snake phobia and I´m shivering just at the thought of a snake pit. (The one with snakes, Cindy!)

That is a pretty interesting article. I hadn't known about the genes determining max size causing the difference beteen Tigon and Ligers.

Genes are very fascinating. I studied a lot of bio and chem during my first degree from college.

i think it depends how closely the snake species are related... a lot of snakes have very tricky... organs let's say for the CoC's sake... a lot of birds, too... so could be difficult to manage naturaly. not sure what they could do in a test tube. seems a little evilish.

 

pig and elephant dna just won't.. well, you know.

 

snake pit. good movie. we've had this conversation, haven't we?

So that's what that song is about...

 

*whistles Maroon Five's "Moves like Jagger"*

I already knew about Ligers for years, lol.

 

And it seems there is a snake behind your computer, Tina. And it has just seen you.

Don´t say that. I still remember the fear when seeing Indiana Jones. To answer my own questions I guess that the poisonous snakes would take out the other ones. I say throw in a bunch of mungos. I love mungos.

 

I have also known about Ligers for many years but for some reason they fascinate me. My daughter drew one and wrote down some facts to show her teacher today.

Don´t say that.

 

What? Do you more like being killed by that snake behind you?

Evil boy!

 

I have just decided what I will wish for Christmas - a mungo. And a liger baby for Freja.

not sure the poisonous snaks would do that. poisonous things are not always aggressive. it's not so easy to make venom. and not so wise to be close enough to strike.

I know that no snakes chases humans. We are not their fav food. But I would feel so much safer with a mungo.

i knew a mungo once. ed mungo. you would not have felt very safe with him.

Ed Mungo? No, I don´t think I would feel safe with an Ed.

he was a bad bad man. ed could have learned much evil from him.

Then I´m happy we have the right Ed here.

Evil boy!

 

What is evil about asking a question?

 

I have just decided what I will wish for Christmas - a mungo. And a liger baby for Freja.

 

How old is Freja?

 

(we must be sure she can handle the baby. Even if it can't be too difficult when your mother is this evil)

*twaps Ley*

She is 7 and could probably handle a baby liger. When it gets a little bigger she can ride on it to school... I hope it won´t eat my mungo.

maybe a newfie would be a better idea...

A newfie?

Aha! English failed. It´s so cute! But it´s kind of mainstream, don´t you think? I wonder if we could feed it to the liger?