Re: Tigars Vs Lion What would win?
Actually both names are perfectly valid, Liger and Tigon.
They are both totally different animals though: A Liger is a male lion and female Tiger. A Tigon is a male tiger and a female lion.
The interesting thing about these animals is not the marking on them but the difference in size. Ligers and Tigons are far bigger than there parents for quite frankly amazing reasons: The gene that limits growth for these cats is in the female, consequently as a result They both have funny size differences... check this out.
http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm
and are much bigger because they don't know when to stop growing...
Re: Tigars Vs Lion What would win?
http://perin.atthefaire.com/KRF_2001/Liger_2.jpg
This Liger would win ~D
Long ago, outside the old city of Singapore, which was considered to be the city of Lions, there was reported to be giant brown beasts. This was before the Asiatic lion was reduced to such low numbers that their are now less than 200 left in the Gir forest. This huge animal might just be an explanation for this myth, for he is neither a lion nor a tiger, but he is about the size of both of them combined. The liger is the world's largest big cat. An average male liger weighs over 900 pounds and standing almost 12 feet tall.
The reason that they are called a liger is because the father was a lion and the mother was a tiger. If the situation was reversed and the mother was a lion and the father was a tiger, he would be called a tigon, and would be a dwarf instead of a giant. A fully grown tigon is usually less that 350lbs. Ligers are not sterile, and they can reproduce. If a liger were to reproduce with a tiger, it would be called a titi, and if it were to reproduce with a lion, it would be call a lili.
Ligers are not something we planned on having. We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures. We had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl. Low and behold, she had giant brown babies, and we knew we had ourselves some ligers.
Our ligers were raised on a baby bottle, and they still enjoy getting them as treats. They are not tame from these activities, they are trained to behave. They will still bite or even kill someone given the right set of circumstances. Our liger could easily eat a hundred pound of food in a sitting but they tends to gain a little extra weight so we feed them about 25 pound of food a night. People often ask what our big cats eat. They love to eat something called, King Lion diet, which is made basically by taking a horse, a cow, a couple of pigs and a flock of chickens and putting them into a blender on high with all they parts and pieces. This ends up looking like a raw bloody meatloaf. They also enjoy restaurant quality chicken thigh quarters and chunk beef.
Re: Tigars Vs Lion What would win?
Lion: I agree with DemonArchangel for the reasons given in the website he links. The protective mane of the male lion gives it an edge over the tiger who would go for the throat. And the male lion's almost sole raison d'etre is to intimidate other big powerful cats. Consequently it would be both more experienced and more ferocious in such an encounter. The size difference is not really significant.
Of course, the tiger is much more dangerous to a humans.
Re: Tigars Vs Lion What would win?
Hey I have no idea, but this is cool:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/
Forget Norway!