Yes, Las Vegas is getting a liger, potentially the most terrifying hybrid to stride the Strip since French-Canadian singer Celine Dion. (“Enter the Liger,” by the way, would be an excellent ...

In January 2017, a Russian zoo made the headlines with the birth of a liger cub named Tzar – a cute hybrid cat born to a female tiger and a male lion. The excitement generated by the news ...

A cross between a male African lion and a female tiger, called a liger, is seen at Taman Safari in West Java, Indonesia. Both pairings are extremely unlikely to happen in the wild because lion and ...

For more on big cats, tune in to Big Cat Week, premiering Monday, Feb. 20, at 9/8c on Nat Geo WILD and learn more about the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative, a global initiative that ...

But the incident became international news and sparked a debate over the ethics of crossbreeding: What exactly is a liger? A cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and female tiger (Panthera ...

The liger is only one such concoction, by the way. There are also tigons, which is a cross between a female lion and a male tiger. (Ligers are technically the opposite.) Then you have leopons ...

The park's Tiger/Liger Exhibit reopened Wednesday after an overhaul that includes 20-foot-tall fences. The new enclosure was unveiled with Mahesh, a 900-pound male liger named Vulcan and two new ...

The offspring look different, depending on who the mother is. A male lion and a female tiger produce a liger – the biggest of the big cats. A male tiger and a female lion produce a tigon, a cat that ...