Animal Of The Day- Liger

Welcome back. Today on The Hang Out, The Animal Of The Day is the Liger. The Liger is a mixture of a lion and a tiger. It is the cross between a male lion and a female tiger. A liger looks like a lion with faded stripes. A similar species is the Tigon which is the cross between a female lion and male tiger. Ligers enjoy swimming, just as Tigers. Ligers have a tiger-like striping pattern on a lion-like tawny background. In addition they may inherit rose like markings from the lion parent (lion cubs are rosetted and some adults retain faint markings). These markings may be black, dark brown or sandy. The background color may be correspondingly tawny, sandy or golden. In common with tigers, their underparts are pale. The actual pattern and color depends on which subspecies the parents were and on the way in which the genes interact in the offspring.There is no scientific name assigned to this animal because of it’s human assisted ancestry.On a typical day a Liger will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. A male liger may have a leonine mane, but this is much more modest than on the lion and many male ligers have little or no main at all.