But with little choice in captivity-like an open zoo-the odd coupling may occur. If these ferocious cats met in the jungle, a tiger would probably not choose to visit a pride of lions a raucous brawl-not romance-would be the more likely result.
The punch line sounds like a joke, but ligers-produced by a female tiger mating with a male lion-are actual animals and one of the world's more bizarre-looking hybrids, or mixed animal species. What has a mane like a lion, the sleek muscular body of a tiger, stripes and spots, and weighs up to 1,000 pounds? Answer: A liger. APA style: The mating game: ligers, zorses, wholphins, and other hybrid animals raise a beastly science question: what is a species?.The mating game: ligers, zorses, wholphins, and other hybrid animals raise a beastly science question: what is a species?.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'The mating game: ligers, zorses, wholphins, and other hybrid animals raise a beastly science question: what is a species?.' The Free Library.
