Like with the liger, the tigon takes on more characteristics and physical features of the tiger male parent than its lion female parent, although it has features of both. Fewer tigons than ligers ...

A rare Tigon – a cross between a tiger and a lion – has gone on display at the Manchester Museum 65 years after it died. Maude was once one of the main attractions at Manchester’s Belle Vue ...

The most common big cat hybrid is the liger (lion father and tiger mother), while tigons (lion mother and tiger father) seem to be more rare. "For some reasons, people are very interested in ligers.

The tigon named Maude had a tiger father and lioness mother A rare lion and tiger cross-breed has gone on display at Manchester Museum after 65 years "rolled up" in storage.

There’s also the tigon, which has a lion mother and tiger father. And the leopon, the progeny of a lion and a leopard—not to be outdone by the jagulep, a jaguar-leopard mix.

There are a few documented cases of Tigons and Ligers however – the term depends on whether the animal’s father was a lion or tiger – though one hybrid was recently put on display in Manchester.

Team Tiger won the TIGON Cup, an annual tournament organised by the Gokarna Golf Club here on Saturday. CLOSE. Sections. Home. Kathmandu. Nepal. COVID-19. Covid Connect. World. Opinion. Business.

A male lion and a female tiger produce a liger – the biggest of the big cats. A male tiger and a female lion produce a tigon, a cat that is about the same size as its parents. The difference in size ...

What exactly is a liger? A cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and female tiger (Panthera tigris). The liger is the world's largest big cat, growing up to 12 feet long and 1,200 lbs. Ligers ...