1. By: Brittany Crawford

2. www.noodletools.com/ my sources
<http://ligerworld.com/>.
<http://www.ligerliger.com/>.
<http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/ligers.
html>.
<http://www.britannica.
com/EBchecked/topic/340433/liger>.
<http://www.britannica.
com/EBchecked/topic/340433/liger>.

3. I choosen ligers as my topic, because it is a very
interesting topic to learn about,this rare species, and a
lot of people don’t know alot about ligers.ligers are
unique. Ligers is a animal that results from the crossbreeding of two distinctive big cats. It is an offspring,
that results from an intercourse in between male lion
and female tiger (Lion and tigress). This cross-breeding
does not happen in wild, but rather this cross breeding
takes place in zoos and captivity in different countries
around the world. A liger is purely a carnivore animal.
Ligers are the biggest meat consuming carnivore in the
world. Ligers are the biggest among the cat species and
also biggest among the carnivore species as well.

4. Liger is officially declared as the biggest wild cat
(Panther) in the world. Ligers are very large animals.
Their weight can easily surpass 1000 pounds. Ligers can
gain a length of 12 to 14 feet which makes this animal a
huge beast. Ligers are larger than tigers and lions. Both
the parents of a liger which are lion as its father and
female tiger as its mother are less than half the size of
the ligers. Previously tigers specifically the ones from
Siberian origin or Amur Tigers were believed to be the
biggest cats on the planets. Now it is the ligers turn to
become the biggest cats on earth in the book records.

5. Since the ligers are the hybrids of the male lion and the
female tiger, their appearances may take one dominant gene
of one parent on different accounts. Female ligers appear to
be almost the same.The real variance comes in the male
ligers in terms of their appearances. The most obvious one is
that some male ligers have manes while some male ligers
have no mane.The manes of the ligers are not so big. In the
positive way, the manes of the ligers are moderate in size,
and they look well groomed under those manes as compared
to the wild bushy manes of the lions. Some female ligers are
very much like the lionesses. They even do not have any
such kind of stripes. However, some female ligers have very
dark browned color stripes on their back. The same is true
about the male ligers as well. When the ligers are young, the
stripes at their bodies are very visible; as they become older
the stripes fade away and become very dim.

6. According to some other statements, in a one
particular day a liger takes about 50 pounds of
meat. That will be nearly 23 kilograms of
meat. A liger named as Samson at the Spirit of
the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary at Dakota
consumed about 30 to 50 pounds of meat. One
of the most favorite foods of this liger includes
beef, elk and venison.

7. Ligers are a unique topic to learn about.
Specially, since people really don’t know a lot
about ligers. I found a lot of good helpful
information sites.