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Ten foot tall "LIGER" - part lion; part tiger; weighs half a ton and is still growing!
Email | MAY 27, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 05/27/2005 4:44:50 PM PDT by CHARLITE

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To: tscislaw; SquirrelKing
I caught you a delicious bass.

I love technology.

101 posted on 05/27/2005 8:31:01 PM PDT by Allegra (It's Hotter'n A Whorehouse on Nickel Night)
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To: RikaStrom

Hey, have not heard from you lately, how are you and the mut doing?? Me and mrs. eastie extend our friendship and hope for a gathering of the Houston chapter shortly, al clayda is waiting.


102 posted on 05/27/2005 8:48:50 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: Mr. Jeeves
"She probably raised the liger from a cub and bottle-fed it, so it sees her as part of the cat family."

One time, some years ago, when I was on a safari in Kenya & Tanzania, a woman in our group wanted to "adopt" an orphaned lion cub. She was all animated and enthusiastic about the prospect.

At first, the tour guide treated it lightly, but when she began attempting to find out how to set up such a transfer from Kenya to the States, the guide sat her down and told her very forcefully that even if she raised a lion from a cub, the adult animal could turn on her without warning, at specific times of her monthly cycle.

The guide then gave some graphic details of several cases where that precise episode occurred. She never talked about importing a lion cub again.

Then, of course, there is the tragic story of Roy and the white Bengal tiger, who mauled him on stage in Las Vegas. No one knows - or probably ever will know if the tiger actually attacked Roy, or was trying to protect him. I opt for the former. I believe that it was an attack, not a mistaken perception on the part of the cat, that Roy was in danger. Why would that be? The cats did nightly shows in front of audiences all the time. Why would one woman with a "bouffant" hair style suddenly cause that cat to lunge at his master?

Even though the cat was fully trained and treated at all times as a "pet" and part of the family, it was still a wild animal and therefore unpredictable.

Char

103 posted on 05/27/2005 8:58:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I'd like to see Hillary and Bill Clinton GET REAL JOBS for once!)
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To: Miss Marple

What if we put human genes on a tyrannosaurus rex?

Do we get a homosaurus?

How big would that be?


104 posted on 05/27/2005 9:46:04 PM PDT by duckandcover
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To: Sabertooth

Here's one for your collection.


105 posted on 05/27/2005 10:14:27 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: CHARLITE
This is a vanity reply to this thread but did any Freepers think of Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars after seeing the Liger??
106 posted on 05/27/2005 10:16:00 PM PDT by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: duckandcover

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107 posted on 05/27/2005 10:16:49 PM PDT by RichInOC (...sorry...was I bad?)
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To: CHARLITE

Whose monthly cycle would trigger the cat's behavior? The woman's? Or the cat's?


108 posted on 05/27/2005 10:20:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: CHARLITE

Whose monthly cycle would trigger the cat's aggressive behavior? The woman's? Or the cat's?


109 posted on 05/27/2005 10:20:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: CHARLITE
Even though the cat was fully trained and treated at all times as a "pet" and part of the family, it was still a wild animal and therefore unpredictable.

Shoot I'd believe it, just take your normally frisky housecat and count the number of times it decided to nip your hand or scratch your arm, then scale that up to Mr. Liger.

110 posted on 05/27/2005 10:21:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: razoroccam
I'd like to have someone more knowledgable back me up, but I seem to remember my (excellent) biology teachers in high school saying that most hybrids don't reproduce...
111 posted on 05/27/2005 10:28:13 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Pray daily for our troops.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
My daughter has an "outdoor" cat which came with the house she bought. The animal was always fine. She came when the food was set out - everything hunky dorey. Then, suddenly, one day for no reason, the cat leapt up onto my daughter's back and hung on, grasping my daughter's skin with her claws, right through several layers of clothing!

There was nothing that provoked the cat. She just suddenly sprang up that way.

Imagine if it were a half a ton of feline!

Char :)

112 posted on 05/27/2005 10:29:41 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I'd like to see Hillary and Bill Clinton GET REAL JOBS for once!)
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To: Doc Savage
A liger at the Boston zoo has mated with Ted Kennedy. It has produced a drunken 4,000 pound mutant known as a "LIAR". Likes to swim off Edgartown and Chappaquidick. Bill Clinton.
113 posted on 05/27/2005 10:38:05 PM PDT by Petruchio ( ... .--. .- -.-- / .- -. -.. / -. . ..- - . .-. / .. .-.. .-.. . --. .- .-.. / .- .-.. .. . -. ...)
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To: visualops

Male ligers are sterile. Female ligers are often fertile and can be mated to a tiger resulting in ti-liger offspring or to a lion resulting in li-liger offspring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger


114 posted on 05/27/2005 10:48:26 PM PDT by Selkie ("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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To: TheOtherOne

Ahem, did you mean ALASKA-SIZED?


115 posted on 05/27/2005 10:57:05 PM PDT by porkchops 4 mahound (Don't pi$$ off Alaska, or we'll cut Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state.)
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To: Dog Gone
Dang, that's a big kitty, and with an appetite of 200 lbs per day, unlikely to become a popular pet

I'm thinking the 175 pounds of Cat dump per day is a bigger issue. Any animal that craps a volume almost twice the size of my wife isn't welcome in the Mal household. LOL

That certainly is a neat animal. Scary, but neat.

116 posted on 05/27/2005 10:58:39 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: CHARLITE; MeekOneGOP; trussell; Old Sarge
Gives a whole new meaning to Viking Kitty!
117 posted on 05/27/2005 11:24:32 PM PDT by Boomer Geezer (Sgt. Wanda Dabbs, 22, of the 230th, called out, "That's my president, hooah!" and there were cheers.)
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To: Boomer Geezer
"Gives a whole new meaning to Viking Kitty!

Whoever is the official FR custodian of the Viking Kitty collection should save these "Liger" photos for major trolls!

Char :)

118 posted on 05/27/2005 11:30:18 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I'd like to see Hillary and Bill Clinton GET REAL JOBS for once!)
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To: CHARLITE

It's pretty much my favorite animal.


119 posted on 05/27/2005 11:38:09 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: CHARLITE
I think it is one of those three, according to the "ping list thread" I searched out ... that's why I added them.

The list of ping lists.

120 posted on 05/27/2005 11:42:34 PM PDT by Boomer Geezer (Sgt. Wanda Dabbs, 22, of the 230th, called out, "That's my president, hooah!" and there were cheers.)
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