Recent Examples on the WebPeculiar hybrids were created: ligers (male lion-female tiger), tigons (male tiger-female lion), tiligers (male tiger-female liger) and, in 2013, the nation's first liligers, the offspring of a male lion and a female liger.—oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019 YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [offspring of female lion male tiger] to find this is called a tigon (or tiglon).—Ken Denmead, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2012 There’s also the tigon, which has a lion mother and tiger father.—Ilnar Salakhiev, National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
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