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World's first "liliger" born in Siberian zoo
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Posted on 09/18/2012 12:39:30 PM PDT by djf
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We have all heard about "ligers", a cross between a lion and a tiger.
Most often infertile.
Not always!
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:39:34 PM PDT
by
djf
To: djf
To: djf
Does it have magical properties?
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:45:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: djf
One interesting thing is the difference between a “liger” (male lion and female tiger) and a “tigon” (male tiger and female lion).
I know of a “tigon” being successfully bred with a tiger - leading to a “ti-tigon” (75% tiger, 25% lion).
The reason why such cross species hybrids can have fertility problems is that when reproductive cells are produced the paternal chromosomes match up with the maternal chromosomes to ‘reshuffle’ the DNA - that can be hard when they chromosomes don't match up because the mother and father are different species.
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:45:53 PM PDT
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allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: djf
ABC needs to do some fact checking
in 1943, a hybrid between a lion and a tiger was mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo.
/remembered reading about this the first time i heard of a liger.
//citation slashies- Guggisberg, C. A. W. “Wild Cats of the World.” (1975)
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:46:22 PM PDT
by
HenryArmitage
(it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:48:57 PM PDT
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Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
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Video at source.
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posted on
09/18/2012 12:50:48 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: cripplecreek
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09/18/2012 12:55:32 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
To: djf
wow...look at those claws!
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:06:17 PM PDT
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pgkdan
(A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for obama. GO MITT!!)
To: KC_Lion
To: Carpe Cerevisi
Correction...it’s pretty much my favorite animal.
To: Slings and Arrows
Does Putin *have* one yet?
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:18:48 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: djf
Wait a few years, and we'll have the ligerbear: half lion, half tiger, half bear, oh my!
Serial.
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09/18/2012 1:30:40 PM PDT
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Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: djf; Slings and Arrows
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09/18/2012 1:32:39 PM PDT
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Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: djf
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:33:50 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Stoat
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:35:09 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: djf
LIGER
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:36:12 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Daffynition
He will when he needs a photo-op.
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:37:42 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Tanniker Smith
We already have the ManBearPig. If Gore hasn’t killed it yet.
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:44:33 PM PDT
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Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
To: KC_Lion
Does a chicken have talons?
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posted on
09/18/2012 1:56:06 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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