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- noun Plural form of
tigon .
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Animals (and non-animals) have produced fertile cross-species mixes, the liger and tigon for example are species which have fertile members (although only the females which makes them non-sustainable as seperate species without lion and tiger populations however if enough liger and tigons are breed with lions and tigers it should eventually result in a fertile male liger or tigon to continue the species).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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Animals (and non-animals) have produced fertile cross-species mixes, the liger and tigon for example are species which have fertile members (although only the females which makes them non-sustainable as seperate species without lion and tiger populations however if enough liger and tigons are breed with lions and tigers it should eventually result in a fertile male liger or tigon to continue the species).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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A sidenote to this is that only females ligers/tigons are fertile, which suggests a much more recent divergence than, say, humans and chimps.
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The top spot goes to ti-ligers/ti-tigon/li-tigons/li-ligers because it is a hybrid among the hybrids.
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Male Ligers and tigons are almost always infertile.
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Wilks, are ligons and tigons bigones when it comes to fertility?
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Coming up next on 360, we got ligers, we got tigons, and now we got wholphins.
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After all, ligers are tigons are ligers and all chicken strips are the same frozen, breaded and fried formula.
Boise Weekly Rachael Daigle 2010
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As of now, we plan do do videos of this type focusing on white tigers, ligers. tigons, as well as others educating on what you can do to help.
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In zoos, for instance, tigons (the cross of a male tiger with a lioness), ligers (from a male lion and female tiger) and leopard and lion crosses are well known, and some of the big cat hybrids are fertile.
Fore, right! Sherry Seethaler 2009
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