Posted on 09/18/2012 12:39:30 PM PDT by djf
Lions and tigers, oh my. But now a new animal can be added to the mix.
Meet baby cub, Kiara, thought to be the worlds first liliger.
The cute kitty, whose mom, Zita, is a liger (lion crossed with a tiger) and dad, Sam, is an African lion, was born in August at the Novosibirsk Zoo in Siberia.
To add to the confusion, Kiara is reportedly being raised by the zoos ordinary domestic cat since her liger mother wasnt able to provide enough milk to feed the hungry, growing baby cub.
Kiara is being kept in quarantine right now, but visitors should be able to see her fuzzy face as soon as October.
This cub has just started growing and developing, her character has not even formed yet. But Im confident she will be a calm, confident, strong animal, Roza Solovyova, the head of the zoos cat section, told Reuters.
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No doubt that’s the cutest thing that will ever rip your liver out and eat it for supper.
No, but last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water.
Good one, I knew someone would do it.
No magical powers, but some sweet dance moves.
Ah, there is nothing sharper than kitten claws and teeth. What a gorgeous liliger.
Lol!
That’s what I tell the cat zombies.
If your cat was twice as big as it is now, and you were only half as tall as you are, you wouldn’t be “the owner”.
You’d be “the lunch”!
That domestic house cat will not be able to feed that kitty much longer if she gets to the size of the one in your picture.
She sure is cute, however. Overload on adorableness.
I love it!
Kitten claws! (Ouchie memories...)
Yes, me too. It has been over four years since we took in tiny kitten Shadow. Ouchie memories, indeed. She was a little pistol. She is still a little prickly, but just as sweet as she can be as well.
We think she will be five years old sometime in December.
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