Meet the world’s largest feline: the liger. While ligers are certainly something to marvel at, you’ll never found one outside of a zoo—they’re a man-made hybrid cross between a male lion ...

So long as this formula is followed, it does not matter which species of lion or tiger is used to create a liger or tigon.

The liger tends to be bigger than both its parent species. This is because their tigress mothers don't have growth-limiting genes. Lioness genetics, on the other hand, have adapted to cancel or dampen ...

The liger is the offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris). There is another type of lion-tiger hybrid called a tigon, which results from the breeding of a male ...